It’s pretty easy to see what makes a saintlucei so popular.

You can’t go past that beautiful look of an accent palm, with a trunk that’s straight as an arrow and the arched leaves to the white crownshaft. Easy to grow with a little dry, cool tolerance. They love black sandy loam soil that’s free draining. Single plants will set seeds.

Just another one of those Chrysalidocarpus that are an absolute winner!

I have two Baselonga planted together that look very similar to the small potted one. They are very slow at that age. Harry

Dypsis Basilonga , tied together to keep the petioles from breaking in the wind. The leaves are very long for the size of the petiole. The petiole are very dark when first emerging. Harry

9 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

I have two Baselonga planted together that look very similar to the small potted one. They are very slow at that age. Harry

Dypsis Basilonga , tied together to keep the petioles from breaking in the wind. The leaves are very long for the size of the petiole. The petiole are very dark when first emerging. Harry

A great palm the basilonga, with a lot of Chrysalidocarpus you can see the similarities. Baronii you can see so many that all very similar but a slight difference between them. Arenarium is a good example so similar looking to others in the genus. They do have a weak petiole as juvenile palms. Saintlucei is the same as a young palm they don’t like wind.

Now you have to find a saintlucei for the garden I see you have a bit room left on that steep embankment in your garden one would grow well there with protection as juvenile.

Richard

Yes , saving room for the Chrysalidiocarpus Blacki that are in the green house . Another year or so and at least one will go in the ground with a C . Decipiens. Harry

5 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Yes , saving room for the Chrysalidiocarpus Blacki that are in the green house . Another year or so and at least one will go in the ground with a C . Decipiens. Harry

Just plants as many as you can I say!

Your Chrysalidocarpus blacki, it will be intresting to see if it turns out like this one I have.

2 hours ago, happypalms said:

Just plants as many as you can I say!

Your Chrysalidocarpus blacki, it will be intresting to see if it turns out like this one I have.

That’s a different palm Richard - C baronii ‘Black Petiole / Vokona Lodge / Black stem etc etc’. Harry’s C blackii are very similar to C lanceolatus and recently described from cultivation.

5 minutes ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

That’s a different palm Richard - C baronii ‘Black Petiole / Vokona Lodge / Black stem etc etc’. Harry’s C blackii are very similar to C lanceolatus and recently described from cultivation.

All I know about this palm is black stem, so iam really trying to find what it really is. And if Harry’s palm has any resemblance and from what you say it sounds like it won’t have any resemblance. Back to the drawing board for this palm as to what it really is.

3 hours ago, happypalms said:

Just plants as many as you can I say!

Your Chrysalidocarpus blacki, it will be intresting to see if it turns out like this one I have.

The stem on that one is certainly dark in color. As far as I know , mine will be as @tim_brissy_13 says . It probably won’t show signs of C. Blacki until many years . It will look pretty much the same as C. Lanceolatus . This variety is more robust , from what I have read. It gets its name from Larry Black who first noticed it in cultivation here in Southern California. The seeds came to me from @DoomsDave and germinated easily but I only ended up with 5 plants. I am hoping all 5 will go on to be plants now that they have passed the early stage . Harry

Here is a pic of my 5 plants . It will be at least a year before they can be planted , maybe longer . They are just starting to send their second leaf . Harry

If you look , they have that gloss to the leaf , much like my C. Lanceolatus.

Santalucei definitely not cool tolerant here in SF, declined and died immediately upon transport from San Diego. Beautiful palm that needs more heat.

18 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

The stem on that one is certainly dark in color. As far as I know , mine will be as @tim_brissy_13 says . It probably won’t show signs of C. Blacki until many years . It will look pretty much the same as C. Lanceolatus . This variety is more robust , from what I have read. It gets its name from Larry Black who first noticed it in cultivation here in Southern California. The seeds came to me from @DoomsDave and germinated easily but I only ended up with 5 plants. I am hoping all 5 will go on to be plants now that they have passed the early stage . Harry

No wonder it’s called the dypsis complex, with so many different dypsis variants of the one species. Baronii is one example with so many variations, unfortunately a lot of habitat has been lost in Madagascar, so blacki could very well be a true to form dypsis of some extinct species in habitat and it was lucky enough to have seeds collected before it was lost in habitat. Whatever it is one way or another it’s one beautiful palm!

Richard

18 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Here is a pic of my 5 plants . It will be at least a year before they can be planted , maybe longer . They are just starting to send their second leaf . Harry

If you look , they have that gloss to the leaf , much like my C. Lanceolatus.

Looking pretty good, hopefully they turn out to be as good as the parent plant. It usually takes at east 3 years for a tube stock seedling to grow before it’s planted, you could get away planting them out niw, if you have some well amended soil why not!

Richard

2 hours ago, Foggy Paul said:

Santalucei definitely not cool tolerant here in SF, declined and died immediately upon transport from San Diego. Beautiful palm that needs more heat.

They do prefer a bit of heat, and even a little dry at times that doesn’t seem to hurt them, good drainage is another thing they like. And iam sure a frost is not going to be friendly towards them.