Leaderboard

A couple of nice trays of sabinara magnifica anyone!

Nineteen years ago I crossed my fat trunking Butia eriospatha with Jubaea chilensis. I have several of this palms growing here. A few were imported into England also. Yesterday I cleaned the trunk of one of this two. It are beasts! How you call the hybrid of a Butia eriospatha x Jubaea?

these hybrids can be variable, your alberto seems to follow the beastly upright jubaea appearance more than the butia. There is a quite a difference between the BxJ and the JxB from what Ive seen. Yours doesnt have the heavily recurved leaves of the butia mother, its upright, and it has the fattie trunk more like a jubaea. F1 hybrids can vary quite a bit, mules can be more uprright (butia) or weeping(syagrus). Here is my B x J, not sure what subspecies of butia, I got from jungle music. Here is my (BxJ)xJ, with more jubaea blood, from patrick shaeffer Yours looks more like the 2nd one, more jubaea genetic influence. Both are hating the 85-88F weather and grow slowly waiting for winter to green up and speed up. Growth of these palms is probably 2x as fast in winter here with our 55F/75F typical average lows/ highs.

Thanks I planted quite a few many years ago. Yes one day there will be lots of hookeri seeds. I have grown a lot of Chambeyronia before from seed and they display some red and some green new leaves but most of them eventually get the red leaf . Not a lot of new leaves at the moment but there are a lot spears so soon there will be that red flame in the garden again.

Looking up to this Sabal fronds

And I certainly know the name of this top Australian palm, the grand old lacospadix Australis single trunk var. This one gets a nice new liver colour leaf.

That palm we all can never pronounce, packed full of seeds! Two nice ones in the garden.

Shaved Old Man:

Sorry to resurrect an old thread but how about parajubaea in the mist in habitat?

A few hookeri floating around the garden . All are 27 years old and they are starting to flower, no seeds yet, but one day for sure seeds with this many in the garden.

I hope that these kingdoms you managed to cross will form a hybrid of interest. And very likely, when none of us are here anymore, send me all the seeds to Chile. More than a monster or dinosaur, it's a masterpiece of the palm grower. Just make sure it maintains its impressive size and harmonious beauty, which it will bestow upon humankind. Jubutia erios

It's just the outer trunk. When I scraped a piece away the fiber underneath showed but nothing soft. I still have a little bleeding...same spots as before. Nothing oozing but it looks a little wet on the quarter sized spots at times. Crown in recovery mode but doing OK.

The flushing pup on this Encephalartos trispinosis almost gets lost among the leaves of the main caudex.

Calyptrocalyx hollrungii, understory New Guinea rainforest palm. Tim

This little beauty Pinanga disticha complete leaf, definitely can’t wait to get this one in the ground!

Jubuteasaurus albertoii

I would call it beefy. It claims the palm descriptor 'robust' all to itself. I like rich's name Wooly Wine Wonder Palm along with any binomial or abbreviation.... Butia eriospatha × Jubaea chilensis 'Alberto' ×Butiajubaea 'Alberto' Alberto's Jubutia or BuJube Alberto's Brazilian Giant The Thing that Ate Alberto's Yard... Ryan

Verschaffeltia growing nicely, it is very slow growing for me.

Acquired from Floribunda and planted January 2019, this palm is looking really lovely at the moment. It has always been a very spiny thing, but yesterday I did a double take -- it's as smooth as a fine suede jacket! And such color! No evidence of the "rubra" (red) for which it is named, but beautiful all the same. Still young, and has only a few spines on one side of the trunk. I'm interested to see yours -- please share photos if you are growing this species.

Here's a rousselii at same age

Seed has been shared all over Australia now, you will find the palm seedlings on Ebay etc and at the Pacsoa showing the future, Some sold recently as red tomentum form, red form, etc Gave seed to online sellers this week, some one near you in Australia has been sent seed over the last few years when it has produced them happy to have been able to produce enough to share out PS i do not sell seed regards Colin

I was looking through old photos for other reasons and found this photo of an Acanthohpoenix rubra seedling from 2016 - this would have been from the batch that become the in ground photos I posted before. I'll get a photo of similar sized rousselii seedlings when I get home tonight, there are differences.

A few pics from the far north coast of NSW. Apart from South West Rocks, these could be the most southerly. Covering Brunswick Heads to Yamba.

I remember seeing pictures on this forum of one in Forster which is south of Port Macquarie.

The first is definitely correct, A purpurea. The remaining ones I’m not sure anyone is going to be able to definitively confirm for you; I don’t think there’s really any differentiating features between A myolensis, maxima and tuckeri (and alexandrae) at that size.

An old photo of my parajubaea in the snow in 2018.

Borassodendron borneense, still growing.

Sabinara magnifica, nenga banaensis and a Calyptrocalyx hollrungii, looking pretty for a subtropical climate.

I have lots of new flushes going right now! With the summer like weather we have been having here in So Cal the plants think its like May or June. Here are just a few of the plants I have flushing right now. This Horridus is a very basic leaf form but one of my bluest. Pics were taken after a morning rain shower so looked a little less blue than normal.

Jubea the Hutt? 😜 or Jubea the But (pronounced like the first syllable of Butia)?

The next step in this flush. It clearly has a tilt toward the southwest sky, which is where it gets the fullest sun exposure.

Zamia pseudoparasitica has grown well over the last few years. Tim

Burretiokentia would have entire leaves or much fatter leaflets at that stage. Looks like R glauca to me.

Throwing in this London Dactylifera as being the furthest north / furthest from the equator Dactylifera in the world at 51.4N latitude. It has been in situ there in Wimbledon for at least 6-7 years now and was planted as a tiny seedling. I doubt it has ever been protected there and it is actively growing quite considerably. Looks like it was planted as a small little palm in 2018 or 2019... It grew considerably within a year or so by 2020... Most recent shot about 10 months ago... Not surprised to see a dacty surviving and growing in London given all the CIDP's and also given that one or two have been posted in Paris at 48.5N latitude. However this is basically 3 degrees of latitude further north than any in Paris. I wouldn't be surprised if there are even further north ones in parts of London or the east coast of England where it is quite dry.

My experience with eBay sellers is mixed when it comes to correcting an error. Some will gladly accept information , others not so much . Harry

Awesome palms you've got. There's going to be a lot of seeds there one day. Are any of yours flaming at the moment? My bigger one here has nice red, the small one in the pot is green. I guess they get more red in them as they get bigger.

Those meats in the OP are ground meat, for sure. But I've also had Land Animal Kababs as well: Marinate 1 - 2 pounds of pork, beef, veal, goat, lamb, camel or even chicken, cut into 1 - 2 inch pieces in olive oil, lemon juice garlic, rosemary, chopped onions - leave sit overnight in the fridge if possible, then skewer over a fire, cook till done and eat. Be careful about pork and chicken to make sure they're done all the way through, so you don't catch anything. The rest can be a bit rare and still good. Serve with rice pilaf, and a hearty beverage, including, as @Phoenikakias suggests, some burgundy wine, so fine . . .

I have to make one correction. I listed a palm above as a Phoenix rupicola, when in reality it's a P. theophrasti..

A nice splash of sangria.

Yellow Latania

Please find a series of photos of the "what in the world" palm. Reinhardtia p. may well be accurate. The information I have on that palm indicates it is quite slender. This is not slender but not truckulent(I make up words!). It is approximately 25 feet in height. Any and all opinions are welcomed!

I tested any dark areas of the trunks on mine and didn't find any spots that pushed in yet. If you remove the rotten spot, I've heard of people using all kinds of stuff to seal the wound, but you'll want to take your time sterilizing the wound. How far does it push in?

That is some kind of beautiful! Tim

Here is a pic of one of my E. Cleopatras (Arenarius x Horridus.) Each flush gets a little bluer than the last.

😅

Also would love to see any pics of this hybrid in the UK or elsewhere. Anyone?

Yes

Nice color on yours, Bret! Very healthy looking. Lol -- the pandas! 🤣 Can't stop giggling.

And here's a trio, rousselii is the big one, crinita front right, and rubra in back