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This one looks like its brahea armata. A similar but different palm. Super silver is a smaller, thinner over all and has no thorns what so ever.

Wow. Do you think gigas/obtusas are equally dangerous? Asking for a friend

Lucky it didn't cause any damage. I gave mine the chop before it became a problem. it was way taller than I thought and I fell it into the street and it landed all the way in my neighbors driveway across from me. It blocked the road but luckily I live on one cut de sac and it was a week day so I didn't block anyone coming or going. I was able to chop it up with an electric saws all with no problem. I did loose a section that rolled down the street and scared the sh*t out of me. also I learned that the sap will mess up your skin ( or at least my skin). as far as cutting it up goes it was rather easy and soft.

Very nicely done ! Harry

@richnorm we had our saws ready then the landscapers across the street came over and offered a killer deal to do it. They did it by starting at the base , as you and others suggested, and worked their way up . They were done in less than an hour ! Those big Husqvarna chain saws ate that palm so fast. Harry

I'd clean up the crown then start cutting sections from the base underside. Once you get close to that tree pull it through (might need a tow rope) and finish it off on the ground. You will need chain sharpening skills or a few spare blades as the wood can be really hard. Good luck!

I have one more to remove. I wouldn’t have one anywhere near a structure. This is the third one that I have personally seen come down . Caryota Urens are a huge gamble when they get big. I lucked out , as you say . The wind last night was very strong with huge gusts . Harry

Yea , that palm had been there for 28 years . I grew it from a seedling . I had been thinking about cutting it down , as @DoomsDave had shown me what happened when his came down. The thing is , it had just opened a new beautiful frond . I checked the whole tree out for spathes after it was down , nothing. The roots were compromised though . That was the tallest palm on that side of the house. I have one more smaller one over there and I will be cutting that one down as well. Caryota Urens are for open space planting where they can’t cause damage when they come down. Harry

Good genes with that plant. Gonna be a killer multi in 5yrs+. Love Ambositrae. -dale

weird Basilonga do this. Looks so cool Tim. 👍🏻 Hope you had a good Christmas out there -dale

Wow, I’ve had three C. urens grow to maturity, flower and fruit and never expected a problem with any of them falling! They have been removed. I still have one that has been fruiting a few years now and seems super stable. I never would have guessed that these were so unpredictable.

I'm waiting for more of these named regional Trachycarpus to show up, with varying degrees of winter hardiness & climate resilience. Maybe even some that are more desert dwellers with heat & drought tolerance like, The Iraqi Trachy.

very nice and well manicured. what are your temp extremes?

Sir, as this forum's most prominent dumbass, I'm gonna have to respectfully disagree with you on this point. I mean, on one hand there's a few threads about how to get new blood into the hobby and bring younger people in - but expecting everyone to pick up on Latin and biological names isn't really gonna do that. If someone says spindle palm, cat palm, or bottle palm, we all know what they're talking about. I mean, as long as we can understand each other is it really that important? I mean sure, we can Google it and copy and paste the scientific names pretty easily, sure, but as long as we all understand does it matter? Like, I can say hamburger or I can say grilled ground chuck portion in patty from from Bos Taurus (and yes, I googled the scientific name for a cow). I'm not trying to start an argument by any means here, I'm just saying that everyone isn't as educated and knowledgeable as most of y'all and that's okay. I've got stuff I don't even know it's common name and I've got stuff I'm not even gonna try to spell it's Latin name. If this hobby is gonna experience a revival, we're gonna have to accept people that buy plants at Home Depot. And don't get me wrong, I've learned tons of stuff from my 5ish or so years on here, but (here's where I'm gonna rustle some jimmies) if we really want a revival to grow this hobby, it's gonna have to branch out to become more than an exclusive travel club of people well versed in botany. It's not much different than cars as a hobby. I can tell people my old truck was lowered about 5" in the front and 7" in the back, or I can say that yeah, up front I flipped the ball joints and used Eibach coil springs and modified 69 Camaro shocks and in the rear I used a set of dearched 4x4 leaf springs with the middle spring pulled and the ends chopped off of the overload springs and bolted on some 18x7 Japanese Rays Payton Place Knight Barons on 225/40/18 tires. There's levels to this and it's ok to be a rookie. We need to embrace them. As long as someone doesn't say like fluffy green thing or whatever, it's cool. The 4x4 springs are shorter but the trucks sit higher because the shackles and hangers are mounted lower on the frame.

Pinanga sp.

If I may boldly ask, how much did you sell it for and who moved it? How old is it?

Thought id share my pics since i discovered this thread. There are 3 Lisa planted together as they germinated in a bucket of recycle dirt and developed together. I didn’t want to disturb or separate once they revealed their traits to me. It was a 25gal container about 1/2 full of dirt and i slid the entire mass into a sugar sand location on my property that gets full sun 6-8 hours a day but late afternoon summer shade. Supplemental irrigation all year round to carry them through our hot/dry springtimes the last few years. These do not hold more than 3-4 fronds each. I also believe their mutations have compromised the palm in nutrient uptake . I am very good with fertilization and diagnosis of deficiencies. I don't think fungus is an issue or ever has been , with mine anyway. I DO have a lot more leaf skelatonizers than any other variety of sabal. I hope that the canopy continues to grow and support more fronds as maturity progresses. These have been in the ground for about 3 years, pics not in any age order just a collection over time.

Pembana and friend sharing a blue day.

Dypsis “Big Curly” lookin pretty good today. Getting some size to it. Going to be a bit of an annoyance for a few years due to its placement close to the walkway but I wanted it to be close so I could smack the fat crown and trunk when walking by. 👍🏻 -dale

Oh, that's a bit different! I wonder if Aloe ferox is a contributor? I think flower color is variable in that species depending upon where it was collected from. In Jeff Moore's book Aloes and Agaves he states that Aloe ferox is commonly used in hybrids. It seems reasonable to suggest that there are accidental crossings in California too. If Aloe ferox is a parent, the other parent would most likely be a smoother, greener one with a lax leaf habit, which Aloe ferox don't generally have; there really isn't any quality of these leaves that suggests ferox. Besides Aloe thraskii, I can think of Aloe vaombe, Aloe alooides, and Aloe vanbalenii, but at this point I'm just speculating haphazardly.

Again with this same Cheesmanii in my front yard. The purple hue seems to be a thing with this plant which is great!! It’s grown great and consistently pushes new leaves but it’s nowhere near the stature of my Baueri. This plant has a way smaller diameter trunk and smaller crown shaft than its cousin. I’m digging the curve it’s got. Looks to be straightening out. -dale

Üdvözlet minden pálmafa-rajongó társamnak, Szeretném bemutatni mediterrán kertünket, amelyet 2008 óta építünk és szépítünk. Télen a pálmafákat lefedjük és fűtjük, kivéve a kint az utcán álló Trachycarpus fortunei-t. Gyula, Délkelet-Magyarország. Normális esetben USDA 7b zóna, de az elmúlt 8 évben 8b lett.

They actually do surprisingly well here

For sure. These go crazy when grounded. Or mine did anyway. Here’s both of mine in different parts of the yard. Both have flowered before also. I need to look into identifying sex of these. Haven’t bothered. one thing to note, they both split after flowering also so they are doing that multi head thing now. Not sure if this is normal. -dale