It’s chamaedorea time in the garden

[happypalms]

An easy palm to grow for that cool subtropical to warm subtropical climate. I have dozens of chamaedoreas throughout my garden, they are just that good for the understory. 

[happypalms]

Not sure how many varieties I have but at least over 20 different varieties! 

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[Brucer]

I have just picked a heap of microspadix seeds from my plants.  (red fruit) . The fruit bats are eating all the phoenix roebelini seeds and leaving a huge mess every night.

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4 hours ago, Brucer said:

I have just picked a heap of microspadix seeds from my plants.  (red fruit) . The fruit bats are eating all the phoenix roebelini seeds and leaving a huge mess every night.

Got a stack of microspadix seeds ready to pick! 

[Josh76]

Beautiful plants - my favourite genus!

[Jonathan]

You need to try harder Richard...there's another 400 species to collect!

[aabell]

My favorite genus - or tied for first with a few others maybe. Just so fun to collect because you can cram so many in a small space. Not many people here in Florida collect them or even bother to use the common species to their full potential in the landscape.

Just the other day I bought 40 little elegans seedlings crammed in a pot for $4 at trader joes. Separated them 3 to a pot and in a year or so will tuck them into random corners of the garden, almost like a ground cover. 

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7 hours ago, Josh76 said:

Beautiful plants - my favourite genus!

And with so many to collect, it will never end collecting them. 

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6 hours ago, Jonathan said:

You need to try harder Richard...there's another 400 species to collect!

Well hears 3 more of that 400, so only 397 more to go!

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55 minutes ago, aabell said:

My favorite genus - or tied for first with a few others maybe. Just so fun to collect because you can cram so many in a small space. Not many people here in Florida collect them or even bother to use the common species to their full potential in the landscape.

Just the other day I bought 40 little elegans seedlings crammed in a pot for $4 at trader joes. Separated them 3 to a pot and in a year or so will tuck them into random corners of the garden, almost like a ground cover. 

That’s the one understory dream palm, so easy to grow and work with, you dont need 50 acres to grow them. A small courtyard you could pack a couple of dozen varieties in easily. 
Elegans goes great as mass planting, I get that many seeds of my ones they soon create there own ground cover. 

[SeanK]

Amazing how much variety is displayed in that one genus.

[happypalms]

1 hour ago, SeanK said:

Amazing how much variety is displayed in that one genus.

The diversity is amazing, chameadoreas and the real understory dypsis, just add so much to the garden. The tropical climates may get away with far superior beauty in some the super tropicals. But for the subtropical climate chameadoreas win hands down.

[Harry’s Palms]

15 hours ago, Jonathan said:

You need to try harder Richard...there's another 400 species to collect!

Oh my , I’m going to need a bigger garden . Harry

[happypalms]

13 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Oh my , I’m going to need a bigger garden . Harry

That’s the one Harry, but the best part is look at how great your garden will look. What with only another 400 varieties to collect, plus you will need a male and female of each if one wants to do a bit of palm seed collecting. So another 800 little chamaedoreas won’t need that much space, I think! 
Richard

[tim_brissy_13]

53 minutes ago, happypalms said:

That’s the one Harry, but the best part is look at how great your garden will look. What with only another 400 varieties to collect, plus you will need a male and female of each if one wants to do a bit of palm seed collecting. So another 800 little chamaedoreas won’t need that much space, I think! 
Richard

108 currently accepted species so I reckon we can all easily squeeze in 216 Chamaedoreas in our gardens to get fruiting pairs! I’m sitting at 41 species now and they really don’t take up much space.