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Hey everyone, hope everyone is having a great growing season! This is my annual NYC palm post. This palm just keeps growing. It grows all seasons (including winter) im guessing it's at least 15 feet? My daughter is 5'6. I've seen other windmills but they where in a greenhouse in the Bronx botanical garden. If anyone has some pics of there east coast palms please post.. thanks in advance... Bobby

I walked the Garden Lot around noon today and the heat and swelter were overbearing. I noticed my juvenile Tahina spectabilis has sent up several pristine leaves after growing little in summer 2023 or winter 2024. During Hurricane Ian in 2022 it was crushed by falling Livistonas and Bismarckias. I really thought it was a goner but gradually it produced leaves again from its underground meristem. Summer 2023 was hot and drought-stricken. We got less rain that rainy season than we got the previous winter. Winter 2024 was chilly, cloudy (94+ days of clouds) and wet - just what tropical palms hate and mine limped into spring with a lot of yellow cold-spotted leaves. But since the heat and normal rainfall have returned my beleaguered palms are happily growing again, my lone Tahina included Tahina spectabilis, Cape Coral, FL, July 2024

I have been selling palms online for almost 8 years and no longer have the time so I need to thin out my potted palm stock. Priced to sell quickly. Plants organized into several price categories. Pickup only, Indian Harbour Beach, Florida. No hold requests. Cash or check. PM for address. $5 - Mostly 3.5" x 5" Deep Pots (12) Arenga pinnata (8) Archontophoenix maxima (5) Calyptrocalyx elegans (2) Chambeyronia macrocarpa - Flamethrower var. 'watermelon' (7) Copernicia gigas (5) Copernicia hospita (4) Copernicia baileyana (15) Corypha utan (5) Cyphophoenix nucele (2) Dictyosperma album (3) Dictyosperma album var. conjugatum (20) Dypsis madagascariensis (Mahajanga form) x Dypsis cabadae F2 Hybrid (9) Kentiopsis olivformis (4) Rhapsis excelsia (3) Sabal bermudana (3) Sabal causiarum (2) Sabal maritima (2) Sabal miamiensis (25) Sabal palmetto (5) Sabal yapa (2) Thrinax radiata (4) Washingtonia filifera (4) Wodyetia bifurcata $7 - Mix of 5.5" x 5.5" Square and 1G (2) Baccariophoenix alfredii (2) Dypsis lastelliana "Red Neck" Cocothrinax argentata Coccothrinax miraguama havanensi Cocothrinax sp. (6) Copernicia macroglossa (5) Elaeis guineensis "African Oil Palm" (1) Latania lontaroides Sabal causiarum (3) Saribus rotundifolius var. black trunk Saribus rotundifolius (3) Schippia concolor (5) Pinanga adangensis Pinanga coronata (4) Roystonea regia $15 - Mix or 2G to 7G (3) Attalea cohune (8) Baccariophoenix alfredii (4) Borassus aethiopum (3) Chambeyronia macrocarpa (2) Cyrtostachys elegans (1) Coco nucefria Panama tall (6) Clinostigma savoryanum (1) Dypsis saintelucei (3) Dypsis lastelliana "Red Neck" (1) Howea belmoreana (1) Howea forsteriana (1) Hyophorbe lagenicaulis (2) Kentiopsis olivformis (5) Livistona saribus (2) Mauritia flexuosa (1) Pritchardia hillebrandii (1) Pritchardia thurstonii (1) Sabal causiarum (4) Sabal mauritiformis (2) Sabal lisa (2) Sabal yapa (1)Thrinax radiata $5 - Miscellaneous Plants (2) Cordia sebestena, Orange Geiger Tree (5) Bauhinia tomentosa Tree (3) Cananga odorata, Ylang Ylang Tree (2) Ensete Superbum, Musa Superba Banana (4) Colocasia gigantea, Thai Giant (4) Solandra longiflora Vine (2) Senna ligustrina

FORGETABOUTIT!!! Wild Pseudophoenix ekmanii are only located in the Juragua national park, SW corner of DR next to the Haiti border. It's a very dangerous area to be in due to the human and drug smugglers,and the unforgiving terrain. Closest visible trees are a 5 mile hike through a spiny forest from any roadway. The area is NOT a tourist destination,although Bahía de las Águilas is a beautiful beach nearby for the locals. The botanical garden in Santo Domingo is probably the only other spot in the country you will be able to see a living example of the species, that could be considered a family friendly destination. aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Could you please give ID this palm? Thank you.

Just picked up some great palms, plenty left!

Looks like Aiphanes minima.

New growth! Around when I posted here I trimmed some clearly dead fronds leaving some that maybe had a little green - this was pretty ugly as the ones with potential were lower or in the middle. A couple weeks after posting here the spear pulled. I poured more hydrogen peroxide down the center and nothing bubbled up. Most of the barely greenish fronds not trimmed before continued to turn browner, and it seemed that all but one had no greenish at all. It’s been looking sadder. The pics in first post here don’t do it justice as brown and droopy it had become. But it was looking even worse. So surprised to see some new growth,

Trithrinax acanthocoma is a rare palm in nature in southern Brazil. In my state Paraná it appears wild only in a few municipalities, like Laranjeiras do Sul. It is also a very rare sight in parks and gardens and years ago, even totally absent in nurseries. Nowadays you can find them easier wit a bit of luck. On the other side, the chinese Trachycarpus fortunei, that here are also called "buriti" in nurseries, are one of the the most common palms. Both palms show some superficial similarities, but my humble opinion is that Trithrinax acanhocoma are a A LOT more beatifull then the commonly grown Trachycarpus fortunei palms. The bigger, stiffer and round leaves are a lot more attractive. Depending on the provenance they can be green or more silver green, specially the abaxial side of the leaves. My first buriti-palito palm I saved from the chainsaw 24 years ago. It was growing in a garden in the neighbouring city of Ponta Grossa and where it would be removed because of new construction. The owner gave it to me. Later I cultivated palms from seeds, bought several others from different origins. Now I have +- 25 buriti-palito growing in the garden and in and the side of my araucaria forest.

A friend came by and hooked me up for my birthday. Iguanura speciosa

Butia archeri Diamantina are greener. I saw them in habitat in 2010. They look like my cultivated B. archeri

Some great books worth having as a resource for reference are worth it in any library with vast knowledge from Authors all around the globe who are passionate about the field they work in most of my collection of books I purchased way before I was using the internet and I still go through them for that extra reference point on a certain plant you can learn a lot from a book.

Correct, I've been dealing with this issue for the past 10 years one thing I have learned is there is no cure,the tree dies no matter what! We have lost all of our canary trees but have had success with Bismark palms they are more hearty.

A Phalaenopsis that moved outside last winter is reblooming in the garden right now. Behind it I have a Meiracyllium trinasutum var album on a stick in bloom. It is hanging from the boot of a Pritchardia facing east to provide sun protection.

The baby N°2401 looks exactly like its parent N°1603 eight years ago: 😁

The only surviver not germinating so far … The pollen from N°1401 were quite old.

Recovering from storm damages last winter:

The first baby of my L itapebiense N°1603:

Plumeria obtusa, AKA Singapore Plumeria. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/167075-Plumeria-obtusa

But those are predominantly Washingtonia robusta. I see a couple of Syagrus way in the background in a couple of the photos, mainly in picture #3, but all those tall palms are Washingtonia.

A well-grown Syagrus romanzoffiana is a thing of beauty. Iconic photos of San Diego: Just sayin'... Photos borrowed from various sources on the web, the only credit I found was for the Newport Avenue sunset: Brian McClean

I’m well aware of my local temperatures. I know what I’m getting into with having a few 9b plantings. I have at least 11 palms in the ground that I would consider to be hardy to my zone, with about 10 zone pushers. Granted, some of these zone pushers are now considered hardy to my zone according to the newest USDA map. Im not afraid to lose something like a majesty or cat palm, they’re easily replaceable. My 10a+ stuff stays in pots except the foxtail which is solely experimental anyways.

Yep , I have one! Harry

These are far from the big spectacular flushes that members normally post but it is a huge milestone for me. Around 7 years ago I managed to get some seeds from the E. Poggei complex. Now after dealing with meager one leaf flushes for like 7 years, I’m finally starting to get two leaf flushes and I can actually see them start to grow. Also, during the first 7 years, the one leaf flush would quickly fall over and die off several months before the next flush so the plants never looked good and most of the time looked dead. A few of these plants have flushed recently and are starting to look better. E. marunguensis with two leaf flush E. schmitzii also started putting out two leaf flushes E. schaijesii E. delucanus still on one leaf flush but looking more robust. Next flush will probably be two leafs. Here is an overview shot showing some of the new flushes from plants within this complex.

Thanks for the pix. I've never seen Queens so tall.

Craft & Riffle?

As always, my submissions. To this thread are a little on the lame side compared to the many amazing palms posted here. But anyway, here are some random shots from around the yard today.

I also cultivated a Brahea clara from seed a lot of years ago. It is a slow growing palm, like Brahea armata is for me..Tomorrow I' ll take a pic. The parent plant was this one, growing in France:

It’s always nice when Zamia splendens start flushing.

I love my native palm, the "jerivá" that I know so well since childhood. As a young boy, my cousins and I sometimes took our horses for a whole day excursion on our "campos" and forests, and when our supply of food had finished we ate some of the very sweet and "snotloud" fruits of the jerivá palms. It is our most common native palm in my ( 9a ) - 9b region of Paraná, 1030m altitude, southern Brazil, so much it' s also very commonly called "palmeira" ( palm) here. Other names of the jerivá (Syagrus romanzoffiana), are: baba-de-boi, coco-catarro, coqueiro, coquinho-de-cachorro, coquinho meleca, jeribá, pindoba, coco-juvena, coqueiro-pindó, juruvá, jiruvá, jurubá.

Similar posts with some other members' libraries: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/81167-palm-books/ https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/31399-must-have-books/ A good addition to your library for Floridians or those interested in Citrus: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/65175-recommended-reading-a-history-of-florida-citrus-freezes/

It' s sunny today after two weeks of cold and rain, so I ' ll take some new pictures of my C. decipiens after arriving home.

?? None of the David L Jones books?

great stuff, these all seem fantastic! I'd also recommend Designing with Palms by Jason Dewees. Great book for display and reference, with tons of great photos, planting and care information, and inspiration for palms in any type of garden.

I am clearly not from the area ofcourse, but coincidentally yesterday i noticed some very tall queens on Melrose avenue (near Paramamount pictures studio tour) in a Columbo episode from 1973. So yes, in LA they seemed to have been around as streetplantings for quite some time.

I'll have to second Realarch's comments. When given comfy growing conditions 365 days a year plus Biblical amounts of rain, this is not all that slow and eventually gets some size. This came from Floribunda as a 5 gallon plant. It's been in the ground about seven years. The first three years or so were quite slow, but once it developed a good root system, it has been steady. It is about nine feet tall with five foot wide fronds. This photo used a flash to accentuate the silver undersides of the fronds. It is growing mostly in shade in the winter, but the summer sun moves overhead. This occasionally leads to a little sunburn around the tips, especially if we hit a dry spell. I'm not sure why the petioles are so erect. Most Kerridoxa I see in other gardens seem to spread more horizontally so the upper green surfaces are easier to see. It is just beginning to show a bit of a trunk., maybe a foot wide. I don't think it will ever get tall, but it still has a way to go. This is a female that was hand pollinated a few months ago using an inflorescence taken from my only male plant. It's easy to tell when the male flowers are producing pollen (it's yellow), but for me it is a bit of guesswork to tell when the female flowers are open. Maybe I should invest in a magnifying glass. I should find out if these seeds are fertile by the end of the year. Last year's pollination attempt was successful and the seeds are in pots now.

So nice on that mount. I almost didn’t see the bloom as the foliage itself is so attractive.

@quaman58 if CA hasn't banned it yet, Imadicloprid soil drench is a good systemic. Just cut off any flowers to avoid any potential bee risk.

Hi everyone ! Starting to plan a trip there and trying to find balance between nice holiday for family (pregnant wife) and wanting to see the famous pseudopheonix, Copernicias and cocothrinax in the wild. Anyone from there ? How difficult are the pseudophoenix Ekmanii to access. Hours of car are not really an option, well I guess I could escape a few hours on my own. Thanks !

When ya can't tell the difference between a fly larvae, and a beetle grub = VERY inexperienced ...when i comes to ID'ing insects at least. Reality is reality << ..See how that works.. " There is no way anyone can say definitively that weevils are not a problem anywhere in the Bay Area. " Haha! So far from true.. And i won't explain it for you ..again.. ..And it's Chandler ..not Phoenix.. Get it straight

I agree 100%! While I believe that Trachycarpus fortunei look good in the Pacific Northwest and cooler places I much prefer the look of Trithrinax acanthocoma even compared to the best looking Trachycarpus. I've never seen such a tall specimen as the one in your first photo! I have one planted here that I grew from seed 6 years ago but it's still rather small. Looking forward to seeing it grow!

Jerivá (Syagrus romanzoffiana) in Brazil are native from cold subtropical high altitude ( 9a - 9b) climates in the southern states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná ( where they grow from almost frost free sea level until high in the mountains and tablelands. They also are native in tropical southeast Brazil ( were it freezes only at higher altitudes) and also reach the hot tropical state of Bahia in northeastern Brazil. So, depending on the provenance of the palm , they certainly are more or less cold hardy. For example: once I germinated a queen palm seed collected in the State São Paulo ( it looked different then my native palms) and it was the only one that showed burned leaves after a night of -5⁰C. All my native queens were not affected. It also succumbed due to unknown reasons some years ago....

Ridiculous!

Quick update on how everything is doing. Looking at those pictures above from 2 months ago, wow! The difference is quite extreme, there’s been a lot more growth than I realized. Heres a wide shot in the back, the grass grew back in thru the needles so that’s been a not so fun fight that I’m not exactly winning right now. Otherwise everything seems happy. I did move my Ensete banana, as there’s this massive tree limb that’s waiting to fall and it was hanging right over the plant, and that was $25 that I didn’t wanna lose, so I moved it last week. The majesty was begging to go in the ground so I gave in. Blue java clump is stealing the show being so tall and thick! The queen and bizzy are also recovering very well. The sabal continues to look amazing, it’s loving the heat and humidity as it should. Next is the washy that’s in the main bed, it’s quite happy and has put out a lot of new growth. Gonna mound some soil around it soon since it’s still very wobbly so that means I planted too high. And lastly, probably my favorite at this point, the super mule. Impressive shape that it’s taking on, hard to describe but I love it. PS don’t mind the objects laying in the bed randomly, that’s my attempt at killing grass lol

I think you nailed it ...If not, pictures look very similar

I rescued this palm yesterday, July 10th, from a defunct palm garden in Palo Alto, CA. I don't wish to keep this palm for myself and, in fact, I don't have room for it in my congested, tiny garden, even to hold for an eventual transfer. Please come take this palm away ASAP. I can even offer a suitable large pot if you wish to hold it for some time before ground planting. It is quite a nice young pam, the trunk is about 6 inches diameter by 12 inches tall. Un-potted, as it is now, it will easily fit in any vehicle. and you can pot it up at your place. So...please come get this palm right now, "get this palm, "way down there, off Navy property" Bonus points if you get the reference !!

Opening this up. I am also in Santa Ana and I recently acquired a “Panama/Pacific” tall from LetsGrowFlorida on Etsy. I tried to find a hardy variety. I had read on a thread here, can’t remember where, but it may actually be a Jamaica Tall with the pointed, 3 sided beak. Not sure if anyone has insight into that. Not sure where to start with this one. It has no roots yet but has sprouted. I have a good location with radiant heat but I want to ensure it gets off to a good start. Should I be potting up first? Try it right in the ground?

Oh boy…..a LOT has happened in these past few weeks. Not quite finished yet either, but getting there. This is gonna be a long post so just get ready for it. Gonna start with what I posted on March 24th. This corner has been planted, and it’s not finished yet, still got lots to do in terms of finishing touches (pine straw, landscape edging, etc). Fence still needs to be fixed in this area (that’s why there’s pallets leaning up against the fence). This corner will look vastly different in just a few months as things grow in! Here’s a list of the plants that have gone in back here: Red ensete banana, T fortunei (not planted yet), C macrocarpa, R excelsa, C cataractarum, L chinensis, Butia X Jubaea, W robusta, M basjoo, and some rose bushes my mom wanted back there. Of course, there’ll still be space for some S minor to go back there eventually. Next update brings us to the front yard which has seen several changes recently, including the addition of a new bed surrounding the foxtail. First things first, flowers GALORE because who doesn’t like flowers? Threw some hibiscus in there to spice things up in the apreach existing bed, and new Hawaiian Ti while the old ones go elsewhere, probably in the backyard somewhere. In the new bed, which surrounds the foxtail and extends across in front of the windows, flowers went in. Azalea bushes also went in here. We like azaleas, so why not? This area got landscape fabric because I was thinking…I don’t really wanna have to weed all this in the middle of July when the humidity is up to like 300% and temperature of 600F. Not exactly a fan of that. Anyways, here’s what that looks like: Also in the above pic, there is a mulched area on the left side of the pic, that’s where a new Queen went in. Found this for $20 at Lowe’s and couldn’t pass it up. Cheapest Queen I’ve seen in a while. It’s growing slowly while it gets some roots put down. The Little Gem Magnolia that was in this spot has been potted up and once recovered, will go somewhere in the backyard. Now, back to the backyard. I decided to clean up another neglected corner of the yard, and how am I gonna keep it from becoming neglected again? Plant things back there so I HAVE to go back there several times a week lol I moved my two basjoo clumps into this area, they won’t be getting as much sunlight as they did before but at least I’ll be able to water them now when needed. Found a “Grand Nain” banana, which will go in the sunniest spot in the corner. Also putting in my other C macrocarpa next to these rando canna lilies which I did not plant. They just kind of appeared, and the flowers are very nice (yellow fading to orange), so I’m gonna treat them like I planted them. This area gets 30 minutes to an hour of afternoon sun during the summer, otherwise they will be in shade. Can’t wait for big banana leaves and bright red fronds under crape myrtle flowers this summer! And now finally, a general update on already existing palms/plants. Here’s a wide shot of the main plant area. Bizzy is recovering well with a new spear coming in quickly (especially now that we are getting temps into the mid 80’s). Blue Java banana coming back quite well, and as it stands right now all three trunks survived the winter. Unfortunately, both dwarf and super dwarf cavendish got zapped back to the ground, however they are coming back fairly quickly. Planted a washy in place of the previous cat palm that got zapped during the January freeze. It wasn’t doing too well before anyways so I just went ahead and replaced. Super mule in the back is doing as good as ever, with plenty of new growth coming in. Fronds were exposed to 23F in January and they showed NO sign of discoloration or stress. Also seed grown palmetto in the background doing pretty good, expecting some good growth this summer from this palm! Here’s my other seed grown palmetto, coming up on 4 years old. It gets a bit more shade, so fronds are a bit stretched. The Queen in the backyard is also starting to show visible progress, with a new spear emerging. Should start seeing more substance in about a week or so. Feels like the trunk continues to get bigger. How much bigger can it get? And now lastly, I planted this Phoenix in the front yard in honor of my Niece being born in March. I grew this palm from seed, so to me that makes it just as more meaningful. I am not 100% sure on its ID however, I think there’s some CIDP present and maybe mixed with something else, although I’m not too sure. Any guesses would be appreciated! PS: This pic is not recent, it has since had mulch and barriers put around it.