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Wonderful Archontophoenix

quaman58

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Hey all,

probably 15 years ago I purchased a palm at a big box store labeled “tropical foliage“. It was cheap, and I assumed it was the more common version sold here in California, A. cunninghamiana. But over the years, I noticed a somewhat whitish appearance to the underside of the leaflets, so I considered that it was possibly a hybrid. Anyway, it grew fast and turned out to be an absolutely beautiful palm. The crown is very wide, rather weepy, only has a nominal amount of twist on the rachis, and never exhibits any leaf burn. Of all the kings I have in the yard, (perhaps 7 or 8), this is the only one that suffers no leaf burn. Anyway, it flowered a few years ago and produced viable seed. The inflorescences drooped downward, as this genus normally does. But for some reason, over the past year or two, the inflorescences have developed an erect type of branching structure, somewhat similar to Roystonea or Veitchia. Have others experienced this on this genus before? Thanks in advance!

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Bret

 

Coastal canyon area of San Diego

 

"In the shadow of the Cross"

quaman58 Grand Master

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Sorry for all the typos in the previous thing, for some reason, I can’t get the edit feature to work or to save…

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Bret

 

Coastal canyon area of San Diego

 

"In the shadow of the Cross"

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I’m going to guess maxima but not super confident. Maxima tends to not have drooping inflorescence. It honesty looks like hyophorbe indica inflorescence. Were the seeds bright orange and very irregularly shaped?

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Encinitas on a hill 1.5 miles from the ocean.

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It’s either Maxima or Alexandrae. I have picked up several over the years mislabeled at HD and was happy for it!

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quaman58 Grand Master

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Good eye Nick, but definitely Anchontophoenix. I have never been able to grow Hyophorbe to any size. 😩

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Bret

 

Coastal canyon area of San Diego

 

"In the shadow of the Cross"

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