I have been given plenty of Phoenix rupicola pollen by @gilles06 and used it to pollinate female Phoenix roebelenii

and female f1 Phoenix loureiroi x Phoenix roebelenii

Unfortunately I had overseen that my Phoenix loureiroi was also blooming and missed the opportunity to create an f1 hybrid of loureiroi x rupicola.

I have also used pollen from my male Phoenix roebelenii to back-cross my female f1 Phoenix roebelenii x Phoenix dactylifera. Latter, although it blooms regularly end of winter to start of spring, occasionally produces one or two odd inflorescences also during summer, like this year! @gyuseppe it seems, that your wishes will be fulfilled this year!

And finally I have used pollen from the same male roebelenii to pollinate an inflorescence of a Phoenix reclinata

You may disclose here your own plans for hybrids creation.

No personal experience , but I’ve seen a Phoenix Reclinata/ Roebelini cross . It was a single stem , 15’ tall beauty with a more relaxed leaf than the Reclinata but larger frond than Roebelini. Harry

1 hour ago, Harry’s Palms said:

No personal experience , but I’ve seen a Phoenix Reclinata/ Roebelini cross . It was a single stem , 15’ tall beauty with a more relaxed leaf than the Reclinata but larger frond than Roebelini. Harry

I have such a hybrid, home made, and your description is pretty spot on, except perhaps the solitary habit. Mine has a moderately suckering habit and offshoots do not grow fast like in reclinata. Is the specimen at your place male? Perhaps this the decisive factor of the solitary habit. Mine is female. Perhaps, as an alternative explanation, with age suckering habit fades away.

Konstantinos, it's still too early to know if my female roebelenii will produce hybrid seeds with rupicola, but there's good news: the flowers haven't fallen yet.

Nothing, 90% of my collection are seedlings and young palms 🥲

5 minutes ago, gyuseppe said:

Konstantinos, it's still too early to know if my female roebelenii will produce hybrid seeds with rupicola, but there's good news: the flowers haven't fallen yet.

Konstantinos in case of failure, I am very interested in your roebelenii x rupicola seeds, in case of success I will send you the seeds anyway

thanks for the updates and those are some nice crosses You're working on. May I make a suggestion? It looks like you have plastic bags around the inflorescence which is going to hamper gas exchange. I would suggest using heavy duty frost cloth and sewing it into bags. That is essentially what the professional pollination bags are. keeps out wind and bugs, but allows gas exchange. Anything made out of cloth would be better.

Keep us posted!

I'm pollinating this week:

Caryota mitis variegated x Caryota gigas

C. psammophilus x decaryi

C. cabadae x leptocheilos

JD

The one I saw was at a local community college many years ago. If memory serves , it was not flowering. I think it has since been removed. I asked a friend of the grower what it was and he told me . Harry