Ravenea glauca

[happypalms]

The good old glauca a stand out palm in any collection. I have five in my garden and all are beautiful palms. Super tough dry tolerant cool tolerant palms sun or shade it doesn’t matter the beauties. These ones are about 24 years old grown from purchased seedlings from rosebud farm. What’s not to love about them! 

[gyuseppe]

Richard I had this species, it was good for my climate, unfortunately I lost it while I was in the hospital

[realarch]

Wow Richard, they do love it in your garden.

Tim

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13 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

Richard I had this species, it was good for my climate, unfortunately I lost it while I was in the hospital

I did try to order more seeds from rps but unfortunately customs seized them for some silly reason unknown to god. They are a tough palm, was most of your collection in containers?

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6 hours ago, realarch said:

Wow Richard, they do love it in your garden.

Tim

I love them in my garden as much as my garden loves them. Most of the palms from Madagascar do really well in my garden!

Richard

[Tyrone]

Have you managed to have them set seed, or do you only have one that flowers?  
Seeds of this species needs to be fresh to germinate well. If they sit for ages with quarantine it can ruin a lot of them. Quarantine are never in a hurry to do anything except send you a bill for their “service”. 

[Harry’s Palms]

Those are very nice . Another one that would do well in my garden. My palm friend a few blocks away has one . Harry

 

p.s. Do they like a lot of water like their cousin , the Rivularis? 

[gyuseppe]

6 hours ago, happypalms said:

I did try to order more seeds from rps but unfortunately customs seized them for some silly reason unknown to god. They are a tough palm, was most of your collection in containers?

Mine also came from rarepalmseeds seeds.
They were in pots, that's why they died.

[Tyrone]

5 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

 

p.s. Do they like a lot of water like their cousin , the Rivularis? 

No. They like regular water but they won’t tolerate sitting in water like rivularis. Good free draining soil with regular moisture is all they require. They don’t suffer from nutrient deficiencies either. R rivularis likes high levels of magnesium and on sand can never be satisfied. R glauca is not that fussy. 

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12 hours ago, Tyrone said:

Have you managed to have them set seed, or do you only have one that flowers?  
Seeds of this species needs to be fresh to germinate well. If they sit for ages with quarantine it can ruin a lot of them. Quarantine are never in a hurry to do anything except send you a bill for their “service”. 

I have identified 2 that are flower and pretty sure I have a male and female. There seperated in the garden I think the male flowered for the first time last year but I need to work out who’s who in the boy girl department. So i need pictures of them to work it out for sure. I think the one you see flowering is the female. I need to study them more to work out how to pollinate, only having the one that has been flowering for 6 years now, I will crack it if I can once I get more flowers on the other one that is flowering. But they are of an age where they are flowering and I have five so a source of seed is on the cards for seed distribution in the future which is rare for in Australia! 

[Tyrone]

2 hours ago, happypalms said:

I have identified 2 that are flower and pretty sure I have a male and female. There seperated in the garden I think the male flowered for the first time last year but I need to work out who’s who in the boy girl department. So i need pictures of them to work it out for sure. I think the one you see flowering is the female. I need to study them more to work out how to pollinate, only having the one that has been flowering for 6 years now, I will crack it if I can once I get more flowers on the other one that is flowering. But they are of an age where they are flowering and I have five so a source of seed is on the cards for seed distribution in the future which is rare for in Australia! 

Fresh seed in Australia would be brilliant. 
In 2023 I was at the palm park in Reunion and they had some Ravenea glauca fruiting and dropping seed everywhere. Of course I had to leave them there, no point even trying to bring them back to Oz but if I remember correctly, the females have large long fruit stalks that have them hang out a long way from the trunk. The male flowers on Ravenea are normally a much shorter affair. 
I’ve got about 10 in the ground and I plant them in groups. I have 4 just on the entrance path to my house but they are a long way behind yours. It will be quite a few years before they flower, but when they do I hope to have males and females growing closely together. 

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20 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Those are very nice . Another one that would do well in my garden. My palm friend a few blocks away has one . Harry

 

p.s. Do they like a lot of water like their cousin , the Rivularis? 

My two best ones are in a very dry part of my garden. The 3 others that are in reasonably moist areas are not far behind the other 2 but the 3 look more lush green . They don’t mind water but won’t sit in it like rivularis. 
Richard 

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8 hours ago, Tyrone said:

Fresh seed in Australia would be brilliant. 
In 2023 I was at the palm park in Reunion and they had some Ravenea glauca fruiting and dropping seed everywhere. Of course I had to leave them there, no point even trying to bring them back to Oz but if I remember correctly, the females have large long fruit stalks that have them hang out a long way from the trunk. The male flowers on Ravenea are normally a much shorter affair. 
I’ve got about 10 in the ground and I plant them in groups. I have 4 just on the entrance path to my house but they are a long way behind yours. It will be quite a few years before they flower, but when they do I hope to have males and females growing closely together. 

As I suspected I have one of each with the female flowering for some years now, and the male for the first time last year. Some more observations will need to take place, in order to attempt seed production. A real challenge when a ladder is required, there comes a certain time in a life when you rule out climbing ladders 🪜 especially for a few palm seeds risking one’s health! But then again it is a palm we are talking about so I guess you gotta do what you gotta do, could be worse cleaning the gutters and roof I suppose! 

[Tyrone]

A beehive or a few at your place would be a great idea. Let the insects do it. 

[happypalms]

2 hours ago, Tyrone said:

A beehive or a few at your place would be a great idea. Let the insects do it. 

Got two native bee hives in the garden working on it gor me 🤣