Couple of mitis in the garden. You either like or dislike them. They tend to get quite large and a bit messy looking with a bit of age. But each to their own. Still a good palm for a large screening plant, relatively medium paced growing in good conditions. Very tough and will take some sun and shade, the more sun they get the more yellow looking they get. They were very popular many years ago in Australia.

I like them

what is the age of the one in the 4th picture please ?

Those are nice . I find they do better in shade or partial shade at my place . Harry

23 hours ago, Husain said:

I like them

what is the age of the one in the 4th picture please ?

There not to bad at all, they love water. The age of the palm in question is about 26 years old.

23 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Those are nice . I find they do better in shade or partial shade at my place . Harry

There not a full sun palm, as you say a bit of shade helps them a lot. I did make an attempt at the variegated one, purchasing 100 seeds and not one variegated at all from about 80 that germinated.

Richard

Yes , all of mine are at least 25 years old . I have to cut a flowering stem or two out every year . I have one out front that gets very tall stems . It is wedged between a large C. Decaryi and an A. Alexandrae . Two years ago I had to cut a couple of flowering stem that were about 15’ tall. Harry

12 minutes ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Yes , all of mine are at least 25 years old . I have to cut a flowering stem or two out every year . I have one out front that gets very tall stems . It is wedged between a large C. Decaryi and an A. Alexandrae . Two years ago I had to cut a couple of flowering stem that were about 15’ tall. Harry

I remove the suckers on my one in the deep shade. I just didn’t want this garden monster thay they become. And as for age well Harry we are not getting any younger that’s for sure 👍

Richard

On 6/14/2026 at 12:57 AM, happypalms said:

Couple of mitis in the garden. You either like or dislike them. They tend to get quite large and a bit messy looking with a bit of age. But each to their own. Still a good palm for a large screening plant, relatively medium paced growing in good conditions. Very tough and will take some sun and shade, the more sun they get the more yellow looking they get. They were very popular many years ago in Australia.

It fuuny you say that people like or dislike Caryota mitis. I personally think they look pretty messy with too many trunks. My friends have a beautiful one that have five naturally spaced trunks. It looks awesome! I’ll post a pic from Halloween last year.

44 minutes ago, Palms1984 said:

It fuuny you say that people like or dislike Caryota mitis. I personally think they look pretty messy with too many trunks. My friends have a beautiful one that have five naturally spaced trunks. It looks awesome! I’ll post a pic from Halloween last year.

Nice picture, there a palm to me that needs to be keeped clean and thinned out. I have seen some beastly looking clumps. Still a nice palm if kept in check, let it get out of control and it’s not the same beautiful well tended one that has that cultivated look.