Buying a Basselina pseudovelutina tube stock

[happypalms]

I needed a fix of buying a palm it was to much I had to buy one I think a few Australian growers know where I got this one from just buy them if you want them in the collection it’s fun.

[johnnymak]

I recognise the moss. 🤣🤣

[tim_brissy_13]

I think they’ll prove to be adaptable in cultivation. I’ve got one going through its second winter in Melbourne. Now a 4 leaf seedling kept in my unheated greenhouse which basically only provides slights warmth when the sun is out (almost never in a Melbourne winter). Got the seeds as B moorei so treated it as a cloud forest palm. It hasn’t seemed to mind at all. I basically keep it deeply shaded and moist all the time which some other Basselinia have not enjoyed (pancheri and eriostachys). 

[happypalms]

10 hours ago, johnnymak said:

I recognise the moss. 🤣🤣

The secret is out 😂🤣

[happypalms]

8 hours ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

I think they’ll prove to be adaptable in cultivation. I’ve got one going through its second winter in Melbourne. Now a 4 leaf seedling kept in my unheated greenhouse which basically only provides slights warmth when the sun is out (almost never in a Melbourne winter). Got the seeds as B moorei so treated it as a cloud forest palm. It hasn’t seemed to mind at all. I basically keep it deeply shaded and moist all the time which some other Basselinia have not enjoyed (pancheri and eriostachys). 

Tim the cold weather guru on palms thanks for grow information I have a moorei and it sounds like from the same source.

[tim_brissy_13]

1 hour ago, happypalms said:

Tim the cold weather guru on palms thanks for grow information I have a moorei and it sounds like from the same source.

I’m told any B moorei in Aus are actually B psuedovelutina. There’s a bit of a back story but might be checking with your source where the ‘moorei’ came from. 

[happypalms]

5 hours ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

I’m told any B moorei in Aus are actually B psuedovelutina. There’s a bit of a back story but might be checking with your source where the ‘moorei’ came from. 

Iam fairly confident I know the source and have been told twice it was a seller mistake not the importer at fault.

[tim_brissy_13]

7 hours ago, happypalms said:

Iam fairly confident I know the source and have been told twice it was a seller mistake not the importer at fault.

Oh yeah absolutely no blame to place; at the time of importing the seeds B psuedovelutina wasn’t even a described species. 

[realarch]

Hmmm, I checked with Kew’s database and this species gets no results. Just curious about the origin. 

Tim

[tim_brissy_13]

1 hour ago, realarch said:

Hmmm, I checked with Kew’s database and this species gets no results. Just curious about the origin. 

Tim

Very recently described:

https://palms.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PALMSv68n2p057-065-Hodel-Pierson-New-taxa.pdf

[happypalms]

1 hour ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

Very recently described:

https://palms.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PALMSv68n2p057-065-Hodel-Pierson-New-taxa.pdf

Have you read the latest ips magazine interesting article on both of them moorei as well.

[happypalms]

9 hours ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

Oh yeah absolutely no blame to place; at the time of importing the seeds B psuedovelutina wasn’t even a described species. 

It can happen so easily when importing seeds all you can is label everything then wait 20 plus years if you’re lucky they flowering in that time and you can get an identification so long as it has been described.

[realarch]

Awesome, awesome, thanks boys!

Tim

[palmad Merc]

My understanding is that we are the only ones that have them in cultivation outside of New Caledonia 😁

[tim_brissy_13]

34 minutes ago, palmad Merc said:

My understanding is that we are the only ones that have them in cultivation outside of New Caledonia 😁

Basselinia ‘moorei’ seeds have been listed on RPS for a while. I assumed these would be B psuedovelutina with the same confusion surrounding them. Reckon they would be the actual moorei?

[palmad Merc]

10 minutes ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

Basselinia ‘moorei’ seeds have been listed on RPS for a while. I assumed these would be B psuedovelutina with the same confusion surrounding them. Reckon they would be the actual moorei?

The RPS seeds are Basselinia Moorei, the ones in cultivation in Australia are Basselinia Pseudovelutina. 

[happypalms]

2 hours ago, palmad Merc said:

My understanding is that we are the only ones that have them in cultivation outside of New Caledonia 😁

Then I have lucked up thanks to the Australian importers in the seed industry who make palm collecting fun and enjoyable without such importers these varieties would not be available in Australia let alone to the rest of the world 🌱🏝️