I just bought a seedling tribear at a crazy price and would like any information from people growing them! How much sun they take water requirements any other information so I don’t lose it!!!

Thank you in advance!!!

I was gifted a seedling about 8 years ago, maybe 6" tall at the soil line. Within a year or so, I shoehorned it into an area that was a bit protected from full on sun by an umbrella tree. Like their parents, they don't seem too fussy about exposed locations, handling sun pretty well. Water requirements are modest as well, relatively speaking. It's about 8 ft. tall now, so growth rate on my hillside is moderately fast. Cool palm, one of only a handful of hybrids I have.

@quaman58 great gift I paid over $100 for mine like yours about 6” or less 2 fronds!! Thanks for the info I have a teddy bear palm growing in semi shade in my area it is one of my fastest growing palms and have a triangle palm beside it giving some shade I may plant mine close by!! So I guess they are pretty fast growers! Thanks for the information!!!

I got mine as an established palm at a non specialist nursery sold as D decaryi. Not cheap, but a bargain for what it is.

It’s done relatively well considering my climate is far from ideal for them; C leptocheilos doesn’t grow reliably long term and there are only a handful of mature C decaryi around and they seem to need very well drained soil or they rot in winter. Even my pure C decaryi gets bad brown tipping and the trunk gets a bit wobbly each spring from what I assume is root rot. My Tribear doesn’t have that problem. A bit of brown tipping but that’s hard to avoid in my climate for most species.

Ok guys I know a couple of palms or two, but what the heck l is a tribear. Forgive my lack of knowledge on this one. ☝️

4 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Ok guys I know a couple of palms or two, but what the heck l is a tribear. Forgive my lack of knowledge on this one. ☝️

Chrysalidocarpus decaryi x leptocheilos F1. Have heard them also referred to as Red Triangle Palms but I also think that’s used for the reverse hybrid. Probably just another reason to avoid common names.

Photo from today in balmy Melbourne. The relatively sickly pure C decaryi to the right of it.

10 minutes ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

Chrysalidocarpus decaryi x leptocheilos F1. Have heard them also referred to as Red Triangle Palms but I also think that’s used for the reverse hybrid. Probably just another reason to avoid common names.

Photo from today in balmy Melbourne. The relatively sickly pure C decaryi to the right of it.

You had me up until the word hybrid, I appreciate the work that a breeder does to get such hybrids. But each to their own I also see the benefits of hybrid vigour for difficult growing regions. Not my cup of tea hybrids. Nothing personal!

I find it interesting that C. decaryi & lepticielos are so promiscuous. They seem to want to "mix it up" with just about anything in their vicinity!