TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms
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One of the things I look forward to this time of year is the new flushes of growth and cones from my Cycads. It is so amazing to see the lettuce soft new growth emerge from such a spikey formidable plant. I've been REAL into Cycads lately and many of the seedlings I just recently purchased are starting to flush as well. So lets see what Cycads are flushing or coning for you. Sorry about the lighting on my pics but we had the heavy duty May gray socked in today. Here is my Lepidozamia Hopei with a 2 leaf mini flush. Stevo
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Alocasia or Colocasia ?
by Darold Petty- 5 replies
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Recently, I was sorely tempted by colorful plants, Colocasia 'Redemption' and C. 'Pharoah's Mask'. However, my garden is the very most cold microclimate to be classified as USDA zone 10. People have no idea about the lack of daytime warmth my garden suffers. The daily summer high temperature often ranges from 56 to 64 F. At this moment the early morning temperature is 48F. I do grow Alocasia 'Yucatan Princess' well. So, based on my success with the Alocasia... can I also grow the two mentioned Colocasia plants ? Thanks !
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Tabebuia rosea with red headed Agama
by bubba- 5 replies
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Saw this specimen today that is still blooming. It also had a passenger on it's trunk.
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Cycad Sex Change
by Gardner- 2 replies
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Anybody know if there is any documented confirmation to the rumour a cycad can change its sex in certain circumstances?
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Cootamundra wattle Acacia bailyana
by happypalms- 0 replies
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Only a young tree, yet showing some real promise of being a nice exotic Australian native!
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Is zamia pumila hardy to zone 7
by COpalms- 1 follower
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Ive read that zamia pumila is hardy to zone 7 but also hardy down to zone 8. I'm confused please help. Also is there any cycad hardier than it and if so what is it and what is its hardiness lowest zone. Thnanks!
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🍌 B a n a n a s 🍌 ba ba bananas 1 2
by JohnAndSancho- 1 follower
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Ok, while I wait for these seeds to maybe or maybe not sprout, and I wait for my friend to send the Dwarf Cavendish that @5am contributed to the John and Sancho East Mississippi Palm Conservatorium, I broke down and bought a nanner off of eBay. Flashback to when I bought a queen palm because they grow fast.... I bought a Mekong Giant, and supposedly these get huge and run wild. Anyway, I guess I'm gonna dig through here and Reddit and YouTube because bananas.org is a great source of knowledge but the website only works when it wants to. And when I Google things like, the best fertilizer (hoping to find something ideal for both bananas and palms), everyone who has an…
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Post your Winter 2026 Papayas
by bubba- 3 replies
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Hiii
by cactuscub- 1 reply
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I'm based in N San Diego area. Lots of Garcinia (and loads of other tropicals, for example I have a giant white sapote in the yard) survive here, but only last year did I try starting other Garcinia. This is batsh¡t crazy, but I sowed some Garcinia gardneriana literally over a year ago, while being caretaker for my ill grandparents out of state. I come back, and experience a bunch of medical issues that weren't related but laid me up. I couldn't visit my rented plant growing space for months. Mind you all, it's been preposterously dry and hot the last couple years in SD, the rain is practically non-existent and never heavy... Anyway, I just got back to my plant space…
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DirecTV stumps
by JohnAndSancho- 11 replies
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I did something very stupid today. I wish I had a full size truck and I could just rip these damn things out of the ground. They replaced this one because the crape myrtle in front of it grew too big so I spent a few hours with the drainage spade (praise jeebus it has teeth) sawing through about 25 years worth of Bermuda grass and tree roots and I still need to get a pry bar and the SledgeOMatic to break it loose. It's in the perfect spot for one of the Redemption colocasias. (See, I made it relevant to this forum after all). I'm not even done and there's 2 more and I wanna die and there's some of y'all almost twice my age running up the sides of mountains with 300 pounds…
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Instagram humor
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Saw this specimen today on my way to pick up grandchildren from school:
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I have always been fascinated with orchids, and I sort of assumed that orchid fascination was pretty common. I also used to think they were difficult to grow, at least in non-tropical climates, and so didn't bother with them, and again I assumed that this misconception was the reason more people don't grow them. So am I right? The reason I'm asking is that I've been experimenting with orchids for 4 or 5 years now and have gradaully realized that for a small lot in a less than perfect climate like Southern California, they are quite possibly the most rewarding group of plants to grow. They are also, in my opinion the ultimate palm companion plants...they grow be…
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Brazilian Mahogany at Mounts
by bubba- 1 reply
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Briefly deciduous during dry season
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Tropical plants in zone 6a colorado
by COpalms- 0 replies
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I made a post a bit ago talking about some of the tropical plants I was zone pushing here in zone 6a, Colorado. They are Cycas revoluta, Eucalyptus cinerea, and Monstera deliciosa. Starting with the Cycad, sago palm, I have no idea if it's dead or alive. I should apparently not uproot it or do anything with it yet because iits to early to tell whether it will continue growing or not, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were dead. There is no spear pull or rot; however, I did not protect it probably as much as I should have, and its leaves died due to snowfall indirectly touching the fronds on the frost cloth. Regarldess I will wait and see what happens. I should also mentio…
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Zone push cool tolerant piper magnificum
by happypalms- 0 replies
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One plant that I definitely thought and read that would not take the cool weather was the piper magnificum. Taking temperatures down to 2 degrees Celsius and sitting in the back part of the greenhouse without much warmth in winter. It came through last winter like it was a spring break. So much so I had to buy another plant, iam quite confident it would live in the ground given enough water in summer in my climate. So don’t believe all you read this plant is cool tolerant! Another zone push winner!
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Strelitzia hybrids
by Jim in Los Altos- 8 replies
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Does anyone have any information regarding the possibility of crossing Strelitzia nicolai with S. reginae or if anyone's already done this? I would think that the result would be beautiful.
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🚨 POLAR VORTEX TO HIT DEEP SOUTH 🚨
by JohnAndSancho- 9 replies
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I planted something. This means it's gonna snow next week. My bad! And yeah I made sure to dig deep, amended the hole with my bokashi compost and some gravel mixed with the clay and dug a few drainage trenches that'll eventually tie into the French drains where my Thai Giant colocasias are gonna go. An hour of work and I'm ready to die. Anyway don't put your flannel sheets away and this is all my fault. Also those are not weeds, those are native plants 😂
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Plumeria early blooms
by aztropic- 3 replies
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Due to our unusually warm Arizona winter, my plumeria trees are already blooming. 🤯 Unfortunately, it seems to have had the opposite effect on our stone fruits which all appear to be giving up flowering entirely for this year...🤷♂️ aztropic Mesa, Arizona
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Ficus socotrana (vasta) planting 1 2
by Tracy- 47 replies
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I finally found this Ficus socotrana which has been lumped in with Ficus vasta I understand, but since it was labeled as socotrana, I'll stick with it. I fell in love with the one at Quail Botanical Garden now San Diego Botanical Garden about a decade ago or perhaps even longer. I never started looking for it until about that time. They had one large specimen for sale at a nursery in Rancho Santa Fe, but when I inquired about purchasing it, was advised it wasn't for sale and would only be used for propagation, and that I should call back the following spring. I did follow up that following spring and a few more, but there were never any available. We just removed a …
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Finally seeing some early signs of spring blooms on my Handroanthus (aka Tabebuia), both the dark pink heptaphyllus and the lighter pink impetiginosus.) Even my previously shy blooming Bauhinia x blakeana now has clusters of buds on many of its branch tips. Despite what the winter was like on East Coast of the U.S., here in the West we experienced "relatively" mild temps. It's so dry I've had to start handwatering again! Palms in the top image are Parajubaea (l) and Jubaea (R).
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Hints of Spring ..Part 2?..
by Silas_Sancona- 17 replies
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Thanks to our ..winter not winter.. and the warm rains during September and early October here this year, one could say " spring ", in the yards at least, started right around Thanksgiving, last year. Now that actual Spring is less than a month away ( using the Meteorological rule, as always, of course ) what hadn't started flowering before the start of the year is proceeding through wave #2 of the early spring acts on stage at the moment, while wave #1 matures and starts going to seed. While a few are hanging on, majority of the " Fall Season " Zinnia are finally starting to fade out. While a basically dry and ..dare i say ..hot.. " winter " …
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Natal Bottlebrush/Honeybush
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First blooms on my Greyia sutherlandii. It was purchased a few year ago from a Bay Area nursery. Tends to drop all its leaves each winter where I live. Hope it will attract hummingbirds.
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I just noticed that my clump of an unknown species of Puya that has been growing for 12 years in the ground is finally pushing up an inflorescence, so flowers will be coming! The first photo shows the paler Puya above a Puya alpestris clump that I had growing in the same area back in 2013. I have since removed the Puya alpestris and what remains of that is in a couple of pots. The unknown Puya is both lighter in color, forms much larger rosettes and each individual leaf is much thicker and longer than with Puya alpestris. So with the flowers to open in the coming weeks, I will hopefully be able to nail down the species as well. The inflorescence pushing up is visible…
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Post your Elephant Apples
by bubba- 3 replies
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