Areca oxycarpa

[realarch]

Kind of a nifty diminutive palm, although I don’t think it’s particularly cold hardy. Nice deep red crown shaft and colorful seeds. 

The mother plant is posing with the shovel, while the offspring are growing nearby.

Tim

 

[Jonathan]

Lovely little palm Tim, I can'tremember noticing it in your garden.

Just did a quick google search, critically endangered apparently, restricted to a small peninsular on Sulawesi, might be worth collecting those seeds for distribution, or maybe there are plenty already in cultivation?

[happypalms]

3 hours ago, realarch said:

Kind of a nifty diminutive palm, although I don’t think it’s particularly cold hardy. Nice deep red crown shaft and colorful seeds. 

The mother plant is posing with the shovel, while the offspring are growing nearby.

Tim

 

Too cold for that beauty in my garden, had 3 all went to the compost heap, lucky Hawaii growers! 
Richard 

[realarch]

5 hours ago, Jonathan said:

Lovely little palm Tim, I can'tremember noticing it in your garden.

Just did a quick google search, critically endangered apparently, restricted to a small peninsular on Sulawesi, might be worth collecting those seeds for distribution, or maybe there are plenty already in cultivation?

Jonathan, these little guys aren’t uncommon in local gardens, but still you don’t see a lot of them. They seed regularly and are easy to germinate. 

Tim

[realarch]

3 hours ago, happypalms said:

Too cold for that beauty in my garden, had 3 all went to the compost heap, lucky Hawaii growers! 
Richard 

Although I have no evidence, they just look tender and a bit fragile. Like I mentioned to Jonathan, they seed regularly and germinate easily. 

Tim

[happypalms]

8 minutes ago, realarch said:

Although I have no evidence, they just look tender and a bit fragile. Like I mentioned to Jonathan, they seed regularly and germinate easily. 

Tim

I got my ones mail order from cairns area, they never stood a chance in my winter coming from cairns area I put it down to a zone push failure. 
Richard 

[mike in kurtistown]

There's a little story behind mine. I obtained a seedling in a 1-gal pot. It sat in my shadehouse for a couple years and grew a stem about a foot long.  Then it amazed me by flowering. After a while it grew three fruits that gradually enlarged and ripened, assumed because of their color change. I cleaned the seeds and germinated them. After another year or so, they had grow pretty well in 2-gal pots, so, in April 2022, I decided to plant them and the mother plant out in a new semi-shaded area that I had developed.  After a short time, one of the seedlings died, followed soon by the mother plant. The remaining two looked fine, so I left them in place. The attached pic shows them almost four years later. Scale provided by the hat and two 8-in blocks.

[Kim]

I have 3 of these and while the newest fronds remain green, the older ones quickly brown. Never look as attractive as yours. Sad. I think they are too exposed, not enough shade?