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There is one in Golden Gate Park which has flourished, but as Darold suggests, it may be an outlier. With our climate getting warmer, this is one I’d never try even if I could get one, which I can’t.

I got my onilahensis from Phil at Jungle Music which is in your neighborhood. He just moved to a new location and I’m guessing most of his stock made the move.

82F at 9:26AM ...headed for day #3 at / above 100F.. Should be the last early 100 of this streak though as some troughs passing to our north push temps back into an above ..but closer to normal... range over the coming days.. Eyeballing it, but doubt the currently suggested opportunity for " April showers " showing up in the forecast atm right around Easter come to pass.. If it actually pans out and that passing system did manage to draw in just enough moisture for any, we might get a sprinkle here.. At the most optimistic end, ...since it is mid- April, can't rule out any thunderstorm activity occurring -somewhere- nearby should that storm manage to pass close enough to create good dynamics during the warmest part of the day.. Doubtful, ...but we'll see.. Typical dusty breeziness associated w/ passing spring storms here is more likely than any rain.. Any quick cooldown associated w/ that blip on the radar should be short lived as temps appear to rebound afterwards, though maybe not returning to the 90s right away..

the bottom of the pot is open. I have removed it. The idea is that the CIDP can be watered separately and has more substrate. Our idea is that it can grow and root better this way. We will extend the wooden frame next to it the soil is sandy, with some clay and earth.

One of my favorite species. A nursery near me used to sell large plants of these but I missed my chance to buy one. They would do well in my greenhouse

All I know is that it’s still green. I haven’t been around to see if the spear is regrowing or not. But before I left I treated it well.

Do you have an update on your Butia? 4-12-2025

Does any one know if, when and where the 2026 edition will be?

It looks fine and it should perk up as spring progresses. Worst case it’s a nutrient deficiency. Throwing a good palm fertilizer down can help with that. If it’s related to sandy soil it would be dying from the spear first typically (based on what i’ve seen)

maybe someone who might be a little more familiar can chime in, but to me it looks like two CIDPs that were planted in one pot. P reclinata is very spiny. Which is leading me away from thinking your palm is that. I’m still going to say it’s P. canariensis but if someone else has any other ideas i’ll love to hear it.

Sharing this on the English PalmTalk to facilitate the spread of knowledge on rare and/or unusual palms. This is a report of Phoenix iberica from 2008, translated from the Spanish PalmTalk: "It seems that what has been called Phoenix iberica is a wild, non-domesticated date palm that was likely already present here since the Mediterranean had a much lower sea level during the glaciations of the Würm period, which ended about 12,000 years ago. I'm not very knowledgeable in paleobotany, but it must have been during this time that other species now found on both shores crossed in one direction or another (like the Tetraclinis articulata, Abies pinsapo, etc.). It's not possible to know what its distribution was before human pressure significantly increased with the arrival of the Romans, but it seems that the area was much broader than it is now, covering the coast (and through dry riverbeds and ravines some distance inland) from Andalusia to Alicante, and possibly further north. The palm itself is not particularly spectacular, as you can imagine. It's not a new species from New Caledonia or Papua New Guinea, nor a rediscovered Medemia argun... Even so, it shows several characteristics that differentiate it from the cultivated date palm, such as: a high percentage of fertile pollen (80%), which explains its traditional use as a pollinator for the cultivated date palm (so how could it be a feral date palm?), shorter inflorescence peduncles, more fruits per cluster and smaller fruits (a bit larger than those of Ph. canariensis), which ripen in orange or even red quite late, in the spring of the year following flowering. The seed is less elongated than in the cultivated date palm, with blunt ends that can strongly resemble those of Ph. canariensis, but a bit more wrinkled. We found one specimen with very smooth, somewhat pointy seeds that might be a hybrid with the cultivated date palm. I think I have photos somewhere... The leaflets are arranged more tightly on the leaves, and there are more pairs of basal spines, which are distributed over a longer section of the rachis, which sometimes takes on a yellowish-orange color, but not always. The leaflets are usually quite glaucous and a bit more leathery than in the cultivated date palm, but less so than in Ph. theophrastii (the ones I’ve seen at the Valencia botanical garden). According to Diego Rivera (the author of the book), the male flowers have fringed petals, something he seems to have taken from an observation by Cavanilles (perhaps to lend the idea more credibility, given Cavanilles' reputation as a botanist), but I don’t think that's accurate, since right below my house there are some date palms that look like they were dug up from the countryside (their seeds match the iberica type, and their trunks aren’t nursery-grown), and the male flowers have normal petals. Still, we hope to soon observe flowers on wild specimens to confirm this. Diego Rivera and his team are or have been conducting molecular analyses of the entire Phoenix genus, including species rarely seen in cultivation like Ph. andamanensis, as well as what has been referred to as Ph. chevalierii, Ph. atlantica, and of course Ph. iberica, and it seems there are some surprising results that will be published in Acta Horticulturae, though according to the latest list of their publications, nothing on the topic has been released yet. For now, it seems confirmed that Phoenix iberica has a level of distinctiveness comparable to Ph. theophrastii, and most likely both are remnants of the original, non-domesticated date palm that existed in North Africa and (at least) the Iberian Mediterranean coast until agriculture emerged in Mesopotamia and nearby areas." Link to original post: Photo of a small Phoenix iberica in Spain, April 2025. A special thank you to @NC_Palms for this photo.

Good morning! Palm update, I’m still watering and they are looking sad. The heat has been around 100 degrees so assuming it’s still beating them up. Do I need to water more?? I’m soaking them pretty well.

I’ve seen Bismarckia at a few different Lowes in the last few weeks. Most locations carried them last year.

me le gusta la camiseta también!!!

yeah 27f as the ultimate low is crazy work. fusca’s got it really good. man it just snowed where i live. its mid April this shouldn’t have happened 😭

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Unknown Big Chrysalidocarpus.

Any ideas?

Growing in South Florida zone 10b. Any ideas?

That is a very crowded space and is only going to get much more so. How did the idea of leaving the CIDP in the pot come to fruition?

i actually am in Virginia right now haha. im going to florida i might as well take some photos of some palms there haha

Absolutely stunning examples . My very old Metallica get a bit of morning sun so just a bit of burnt corners . Yours are perfection. Harry

Please excuse my ignorance , is this a solitary trunk species? Harry

Please update when they sprout . I love that you are such a prolific gardener . No worries about extinction! Harry😁