Rare Brahea

[Fusca]

This weekend I discovered that my Brahea dulcis blue form began suckering!  I wasn't expecting it to sucker because I grew it from seed collected from a solitary blue palm!  According to @kinzyjr's cold hardiness spreadsheet these are hardy to warm parts of zone 8b (defoliating but surviving 10°-15°F).

[kinzyjr]

It looks great!  A batch of seeds from RPS just sprouted in the garage, so we'll see what comes out of it.

[Fusca]

It's pretty slow but has nice colors.  By the way, I neglected to mention that dulcis is typically solitary but rarely clusters.  Apparently seeds from a clustering palm may or may not produce another clustering type.

[idontknowhatnametuse]

This is native in my region but I have never been able to get seeds or plants.

[Fusca]

1 hour ago, idontknowhatnametuse said:

This is native in my region but I have never been able to get seeds or plants.

That's a shame, it's a really nice palm.  Hope you'll find some.  I got just a couple of seeds from a private garden in 2018 and the seeds are quite small compared to other Brahea species.  Thankfully I got one to germinate.  I read that they don't like high humidity but this one doesn't seem to mind.  It even went through the March flood without issue.