It’s always been one of favourite palms, knowing they grow so easy in my climate. I just had to order 1000 seeds from rps and ended up with about 700 of them. One of my number one selling palms.

A palm as spectacular with black petioles, no thorns and a beautiful silver underside leaf. A perfect deep shade understory palm. They make great patio plants. They will always have place in my garden any day.

Those are lovely! They become a statement in gardens where they grow. You have quite a few , I see😄. Harry

41 minutes ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Those are lovely! They become a statement in gardens where they grow. You have quite a few , I see😄. Harry

I want at least 50 good ones in and around my garden, perhaps planting a 100 of them may achieve this. Survival of the fittest sort of thing. You can’t go wrong planting a kerriodoxa or two!

Richard

do these require super high humidity ? I have one in the garden. The lighting is a mixture of bright shade part of day & filtered light. It's under canopy. I water it well but noticed the tips can brown easily. The palm is still small though. Thinking it was an acclimation issue since it came from Florida ( I'm in California where its more dry but the microclimate it's in, I try to boost humidity with watering often). Have you found them to brown tip easily ? Or maybe it's when they are just juvenile ?

2 hours ago, Tropical Toni said:

do these require super high humidity ? I have one in the garden. The lighting is a mixture of bright shade part of day & filtered light. It's under canopy. I water it well but noticed the tips can brown easily. The palm is still small though. Thinking it was an acclimation issue since it came from Florida ( I'm in California where its more dry but the microclimate it's in, I try to boost humidity with watering often). Have you found them to brown tip easily ? Or maybe it's when they are just juvenile ?

I get quite dry summers and very hot north west winds, you most certainly don’t want to light a fire those days living in the Australian. They do tolerate some dry atmosphere. Definitely create as much humidity as you can it helps regardless of the conditions in your climate. But in the ground not a lot of dry tips but my humidity rarely drops below 60 percent. Just add shade and water and they should improve with age.

On 6/18/2026 at 1:22 AM, happypalms said:

It’s always been one of favourite palms, knowing they grow so easy in my climate. I just had to order 1000 seeds from rps and ended up with about 700 of them. One of my number one selling palms.

A palm as spectacular with black petioles, no thorns and a beautiful silver underside leaf. A perfect deep shade understory palm. They make great patio plants. They will always have place in my garden any day.

How old is the one in the bottom picture?

1 hour ago, Palms1984 said:

How old is the one in the bottom picture?

That one is over 25 years old, but it was in a container all those years only recently planted. The larger leaf picture is the same age as well yet it has 6 feet long petioles and not far of forming a trunk , so growing conditions do dictate growth. Get them in the ground! Also the other ones are the same age from an original purchase some 25 years ago, only now since I have gotten back into my garden they have really started to move on, water or lack of was the main reason for such slow growth.

Beautifull palm indeed

I am waiting for mine to arrive