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Hypheane Petersiana pollen coming in the next weeks. If you are interested in some PM me...

Here are photos I took of some palms near my home early this morning, (I have deliberately not included coconut) - 1. Borassus flabellifer - extremely adaptable and a common sight. The one on the left is full of mature fruit, notorious for dropping without warning. 2. Bully for Borassus - occassionally a very robust, thicker trunked and large crowned sub-species comes up, these are usually slower growing and not self-cleaning. (This one has had its stem cleaned manually). Any suggestions ? Close up of the leaf bases 3. P. sylvestris - these are the greenish variety, and can take root in any nook or cranny, sometimes more so than many Ficus species. However the deadly spines and a slow rate of growth means they are being removed from urban landscapes fast. 4. Caryota Urens - I hope this beautiful species becomes more popular worldwide. 5. D. lutescens (more solitary than clumping) 6. And one unusual fan palm - Livistonia rotundifolia? 7. I could not resist adding this large cycad (Encephalartos family perhaps?)

Here's mine. It should take off crazy fast, now that it's getting some trunk! Peter

The variegated one is 'Tricolor' and it does seem to be a smaller grower, I've never seen one much taller than 15ft. They also seem to be a more shy bloomer and slightly more tender to cold. This photo was taken an Univeral Islands of Adventure; closeup of foliage of a specimen at Leu Gardens

I don't think it is officially recognized as being a FL native but it is naturalized. It is native to a wide area of the coastal tropics. According to GRIN here is its native range; •AFRICA East Tropical Africa: Kenya West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Liberia Southern Africa: South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Seychelles •ASIA-TEMPERATE China: China - Guangdong, Hainan; Hong Kong •ASIA-TROPICAL North Indian Ocean: Maldives Malesia: Indonesia - Java, Sumatra; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Singapore •AUSTRALASIA Australia: Australia - Northern Territory, Queensland •NORTHERN AMERICA Northern Mexico: Mexico - Tamaulipas Central Mexico: Mexico - Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit, Veracruz •PACIFIC Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Marshall Islands; Micronesia - Pohnpei; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands; French Polynesia - Marquesas Islands, Society Islands Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia; Niue; Samoa; Solomon Islands; Tonga; Vanuatu •SOUTHERN AMERICA Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Honduras; Mexico - Chiapas, Quintana Roo; Nicaragua; Panama Caribbean: Cayman Islands; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Jamaica Northern South America: Guyana; Suriname Brazil: Brazil - Bahia, Parana, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro Western South America: Colombia - Choco, Valle; Ecuador - El Oro, Galapagos Islands, Manabi