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[happypalms]

Another new red leaf palm that’s a cracker of a ptychosperma. Definitely will be planting these ones along the driveway that’s for sure when they are ready to plant out perhaps in spring. 

[Palms1984]

How old are your palms?  How much cold or coolness do they tolerate?

[happypalms]

39 minutes ago, Palms1984 said:

How old are your palms?  How much cold or coolness do they tolerate?

I started my nursery 5 years ago when the world was going to end. Temperatures get down to 2 degrees Celsius, no frost but the area 15 minutes away can get minus 1. And iam about 15 kms away as far as the crow flies from the ocean, so a little ocean influence. 

[Hu Palmeras]

My Ptychosperma schefferi seeds have germinated. They look very similar to Pinanga coronata. Now I'm waiting for the first leaf to appear. I think their germination is adjacent, like Archontophoenix.

[Palms1984]

On 11/3/2025 at 1:59 AM, happypalms said:

I started my nursery 5 years ago when the world was going to end. Temperatures get down to 2 degrees Celsius, no frost but the area 15 minutes away can get minus 1. And iam about 15 kms away as far as the crow flies from the ocean, so a little ocean influence. 

Wow!  I wouldn’t think it would get so cold at your latitude, especially so close to the ocean.  Here in urban San Diego I typically only have two or three morning lows of 43 degrees f (6 degrees c) during winter.  
 

Do you have any experience growing Ptychosperma schefferi or salomonense?

 

I really enjoy all the exotic palms you post and grow at your nursery.  It must be exciting to trial so many genera, species of palms.  When I originally joined the International Palm Society in 1984, it was very difficult to even find the common (now) Ptychosperma elegans. Back then rarer palms had to purchased or bid on at the Palm Society meetings’ sales and auctions.