This ones for all the chamaedorea Radicalis lovers

[happypalms]

They seem to be a very popular palm with a lot palm enthusiasts. And for good reason so they are a standout chamaedorea that has a look of there own in the garden, adding that tropical look so desired by gardeners around the globe. With two different forms theres a palm for most spots in the garden anywhere you desire. Easy to grow and propagate a great palm for enthusiasts at all levels of palm growing, a great learners palm right up to a great collectors prize in any garden! 

[Mazat]

We love this palm 🤗👍

[gyuseppe]

tree-like shape, they are 3 meters tall

[happypalms]

28 minutes ago, Mazat said:

We love this palm 🤗👍

And for good reasons to love it. Perfect for your climate!

[Mazat]

54 minutes ago, gyuseppe said:

tree-like shape, they are 3 meters tall

Wonderful, Gyuseppe 🤗

[Harry’s Palms]

Yes , started 28 years ago with a large squat pot full of tree form . It was about 7-8’ tall and two stems with fruit . Managed to squeeze it in my mini van and bring it home . Now they are everywhere . I have at least 8 of them fruiting right now . I have given the small ones away as well as seeds . I love them but they are very prolific . Harry

[peachy]

I had some trunkless ones that were obtained from Doomdaves when seeds could be sent in still.  My trunking form got planted last week as the cold doesn't bother it. I don;t feed until the spring time but this year I am starting early as most things have spears showing.  As last summer was so hot I cut back the feeding as it was too hot to be outside, so may the early start will help. The winters here normally have warm days and heavy clothes are need for one or days only. Last 2 winters I have needed warm clothes every day but the minus overnight temperatures are no longer coming.

Peachy

[Chester B]

The only problem I have with this palm is its availability and price.  I don't understand why this one hasn't caught on more.  I planted 4 small ones at my new house last year and they have tripled in size and one is flowering.  I would love to get a understory mass planting of 40 or 50 in my yard at some point.

[happypalms]

9 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Yes , started 28 years ago with a large squat pot full of tree form . It was about 7-8’ tall and two stems with fruit . Managed to squeeze it in my mini van and bring it home . Now they are everywhere . I have at least 8 of them fruiting right now . I have given the small ones away as well as seeds . I love them but they are very prolific . Harry

They are easy to grow and give that palm feeling so desired by growers, you have to love for just on that alone. 
Richard 

[happypalms]

8 hours ago, peachy said:

I had some trunkless ones that were obtained from Doomdaves when seeds could be sent in still.  My trunking form got planted last week as the cold doesn't bother it. I don;t feed until the spring time but this year I am starting early as most things have spears showing.  As last summer was so hot I cut back the feeding as it was too hot to be outside, so may the early start will help. The winters here normally have warm days and heavy clothes are need for one or days only. Last 2 winters I have needed warm clothes every day but the minus overnight temperatures are no longer coming.

Peachy

That’s my favourite the trunkless form, but unfortunately you cannot tell which seedlings are trunkless so a little difficult to judge for that look in a certain spot. The end of winter is great time to throwing that dynamic lifter chicken poo around setting up for that summer feeding festival. This winter has been a long drawn out season of cool weather, and wet but not that cold with only about 4 really cold mornings. And with 200mm of rain predicted it’s going to be a wet end to winter and that’s great palm planting weather for me and hopefully as they say a wet spring season even better.

Richard 

[happypalms]

5 hours ago, Chester B said:

The only problem I have with this palm is its availability and price.  I don't understand why this one hasn't caught on more.  I planted 4 small ones at my new house last year and they have tripled in size and one is flowering.  I would love to get a understory mass planting of 40 or 50 in my yard at some point.

Some collectors don’t even bother with them, I grow a few so I can plant more. Ad a grower you kind of get lumped with them and nobody wants them. I have sold a few to the retail sector and they went quick in that garden centre. You will get seeds sooner or later do your in for a few more plants if you choose to propagate them.

[amh]

This is one of my favorite palm species.

14 hours ago, Chester B said:

The only problem I have with this palm is its availability and price.  I don't understand why this one hasn't caught on more.  I planted 4 small ones at my new house last year and they have tripled in size and one is flowering.  I would love to get a understory mass planting of 40 or 50 in my yard at some point.

I'm working on a mass planting of Chamaedorea radicalis in my yard under live oak canopy. I too wish these were more readily available, because the species is very hardy. I have had 100% survival at warm zone7B temperatures.

[happypalms]

21 minutes ago, amh said:

This is one of my favorite palm species.

I'm working on a mass planting of Chamaedorea radicalis in my yard under live oak canopy. I too wish these were more readily available, because the species is very hardy. I have had 100% survival at warm zone7B temperatures.

I get a lot of unwanted seeds. Pm me 

[Harry’s Palms]

6 hours ago, amh said:

This is one of my favorite palm species.

I'm working on a mass planting of Chamaedorea radicalis in my yard under live oak canopy. I too wish these were more readily available, because the species is very hardy. I have had 100% survival at warm zone7B temperatures.

I’ve always known their cold tolerance but 7b is amazing! I will have a bunch of Tree Form seeds in a couple of months . Let me know if you want them . Very easy to germinate and subsequent growth is pretty fast . In a few years they will be fruiting and before you know it , you will have your mass planting. Harry

[amh]

21 hours ago, happypalms said:

I get a lot of unwanted seeds. Pm me 

 

16 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

I’ve always known their cold tolerance but 7b is amazing! I will have a bunch of Tree Form seeds in a couple of months . Let me know if you want them . Very easy to germinate and subsequent growth is pretty fast . In a few years they will be fruiting and before you know it , you will have your mass planting. Harry

Thank you both for the offers, I'm good for now, but I'm sure there are others who could use these seeds. I currently have quite a few plants and have given some away. Mine are tree form and have begun to flower this year. The leaves burned and defoliated on small, unprotected plants below 10F, but they all put on new growth in the spring. The only casualties come from mechanical damage caused by various 4 legged varmints such as armadillos, deer and feral cats. 

[happypalms]

5 hours ago, amh said:

 

Thank you both for the offers, I'm good for now, but I'm sure there are others who could use these seeds. I currently have quite a few plants and have given some away. Mine are tree form and have begun to flower this year. The leaves burned and defoliated on small, unprotected plants below 10F, but they all put on new growth in the spring. The only casualties come from mechanical damage caused by various 4 legged varmints such as armadillos, deer and feral cats. 

There one seed that is hard to give away 🤣

[JohnAndSancho]

9 hours ago, happypalms said:

There one seed that is hard to give away 🤣

We welcome everything here. I sprouted some from @DoomsDave a while ago but they damped off, probably due to me using the same damp coco coir I germinated them in to pot them in. 

[SeanK]

Difficult to get these in the US. All the tender Chamaedoreas are a dime a dozen. C.microspadix is not too hard to find. C.radicalis is the most cold- hardy and not seen in most nurseries. I think Jungle Music carries them.

[amh]

9 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

We welcome everything here. I sprouted some from @DoomsDave a while ago but they damped off, probably due to me using the same damp coco coir I germinated them in to pot them in. 

Peat moss is the answer, get one of those 2 to 3 cubic foot bags from Lowes or Tractor Supply.  It's the only way to go if you are in a humid climate and will save you many a heartache. 

[amh]

19 hours ago, happypalms said:

There one seed that is hard to give away 🤣

Maybe the seeds, but people never turn the plants down.

Charge a dollar per seed and call it rare in cultivation.

[happypalms]

8 minutes ago, amh said:

Maybe the seeds, but people never turn the plants down.

Charge a dollar per seed and call it rare in cultivation.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[happypalms]

6 hours ago, SeanK said:

Difficult to get these in the US. All the tender Chamaedoreas are a dime a dozen. C.microspadix is not too hard to find. C.radicalis is the most cold- hardy and not seen in most nurseries. I think Jungle Music carries them.

Collectors wont touch them here, most of our family run nurseries are closed due to the chain stores killing them off such a shame. And if you do find one they don’t want to buy from you, or if they do they only want to give you nothing for your plants. They will take a Joey for ten bucks but who are they kidding just so they can put $120 on each palm, no thanks! 

[JohnAndSancho]

1 hour ago, amh said:

Peat moss is the answer, get one of those 2 to 3 cubic foot bags from Lowes or Tractor Supply.  It's the only way to go if you are in a humid climate and will save you many a heartache. 

I've learned that if I actually put things in soil once they sprout they do better 😂 but maybe I'll switch it up once I run out of coir. I was looking up other weather data and learned that our average annual humidity here is only 90%, so I dunno if that qualifies though. 

1 hour ago, amh said:

Maybe the seeds, but people never turn the plants down.

Charge a dollar per seed and call it rare in cultivation.

I've seen people call Filibusta a rare hybrid. I had no idea just how prolific of seeders the Radicalis was though. Now that I know how cold hardy they are I'll take them by the boatload. @DoomsDave was sending these all over the world not so very long ago. 

[gyuseppe]

2 hours ago, happypalms said:

Collectors wont touch them here, most of our family run nurseries are closed due to the chain stores killing them off such a shame. And if you do find one they don’t want to buy from you, or if they do they only want to give you nothing for your plants. They will take a Joey for ten bucks but who are they kidding just so they can put $120 on each palm, no thanks! 

Richard, family-run nurseries are almost non-existent here. In my little town, there is Lidl, a German-owned chain store that sells bulbs, plants and seeds at low prices, as well as garden centers of which there are many in the area

[happypalms]

36 minutes ago, gyuseppe said:

Richard, family-run nurseries are almost non-existent here. In my little town, there is Lidl, a German-owned chain store that sells bulbs, plants and seeds at low prices, as well as garden centers of which there are many in the area

It was those little nurseries that had all the eccentric growers. Putting there passion into a certain genus of plants specialised growers who knew there stuff well.

[amh]

On 8/23/2025 at 3:46 AM, JohnAndSancho said:

I've learned that if I actually put things in soil once they sprout they do better 😂 but maybe I'll switch it up once I run out of coir. I was looking up other weather data and learned that our average annual humidity here is only 90%, so I dunno if that qualifies though. 

I've seen people call Filibusta a rare hybrid. I had no idea just how prolific of seeders the Radicalis was though. Now that I know how cold hardy they are I'll take them by the boatload. @DoomsDave was sending these all over the world not so very long ago. 

It will be pure Washingtonia filifera seeds that are rare in this country.

I was skeptical of the cold hardiness of Chamaedorea radicalis, but it is a solid 8A palm that can survive into zone 7B temperatures.

[JohnAndSancho]

3 hours ago, amh said:

It will be pure Washingtonia filifera seeds that are rare in this country.

I was skeptical of the cold hardiness of Chamaedorea radicalis, but it is a solid 8A palm that can survive into zone 7B temperatures.

Guess I need to get my hands on some more seeds and do better next time. And pray that we stop getting crazy polar vortexes every winter. 

[Hu Palmeras]

On 20/8/2025 at 5:35, happypalms said:

Parece ser una palmera muy popular entre los aficionados. Y con razón, es una chameorea excepcional que tiene un toque único en el jardín, aportando ese aire tropical tan deseado por jardineros de todo el mundo. Con dos formas diferentes, hay una palmera para casi cualquier rincón del jardín. Fácil de cultivar y propagar, es una palmera ideal para aficionados de todos los niveles, desde principiantes hasta coleccionistas. 

Richard, you are a great palm master, my friend. Congratulations.

[amh]

On 8/24/2025 at 11:56 PM, JohnAndSancho said:

Guess I need to get my hands on some more seeds and do better next time. And pray that we stop getting crazy polar vortexes every winter. 

Yes, a normal winter would be great, unfortunately we may go back into la nina this fall.

[JohnAndSancho]

36 minutes ago, amh said:

Yes, a normal winter would be great, unfortunately we may go back into la nina this fall.

I don't think the hot dry summer here is a good omen for this upcoming winter. I've been watering my outdoor stuff daily and so much is turning brown and drying up. Except the mfing grass. It LOVES this. 

[amh]

On 8/26/2025 at 9:05 PM, JohnAndSancho said:

I don't think the hot dry summer here is a good omen for this upcoming winter. I've been watering my outdoor stuff daily and so much is turning brown and drying up. Except the mfing grass. It LOVES this. 

June and early July were about normal for me, but august has been horrible, its about 103F at 3pm. My grass is brown.

[JohnAndSancho]

1 hour ago, amh said:

June and early July were about normal for me, but august has been horrible, its about 103F at 3pm. My grass is brown.

I wish my grass was brown. Today it's been hovering around 71 and that real fine mist rain. It looks like winter. I'll take it. We got lots of rain last night and this morning, too.