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A couple of nice trays of sabinara magnifica anyone!

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?

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.

Looking up to this Sabal fronds

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

My dwarf clusias have sprouts from about 1 inch above the ground. Big clusia I'm still waiting.

This is great news. I'm seeing lots in Orlando getting some green. My first foxtail spear only opened one third, all green. My second opened two thirds. The newest spear is pushing fast and seems normal. My foxtail is very large and fat...in ground for about 8 years. This pic was from March 30. The open one was the first and the spear is the one that opened 2/3.

If the garden wants it, Troy knows him that’s where he got it from. But it’s one dam fine palm you don’t see for sale, iam half tempted to get it. But you guys have the edge on that cool grower!

Well I got up this morning to thick fog and mist and about 16C with 100% RH. The fog didn’t lift until around 9.30am but it just reminded me of a cloud forest environment especially when I looked at my Parajubaeas which come from the Andes. So I took some pics. The trees were also dropping a lot of condensed water like rain in the rainforest area whenever the slightest breeze went through. I’m really happy that the trees were acting like rainforest trees. Really beautiful morning. Now in the afternoon it’s about 26C and very humid.

We had a cold February and most have lost their leaves. I have seen late April but this year may be late. Will be interesting!

One in the background definitely C elegans, I thought likely C cataractarum for the palm in the foreground but unsure with the mass of fronds. I wonder whether they’ve uploaded the wrong photo, the description says pyriformis seedling so it’s a strange error to make. Worth sending a message I think. would be good to somehow get that Lepidorrhachis into a botanic garden. Wonder if Hobart has any budget for this kind of thing @Jonathan

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.

Had a nice dinner under the Roystonea regia: grilled up some cevapcici, which are caseless Serbo-Croatian lamb and beef sausages with some mushrooms in wine and garlic sauce. And a politically incorrect beverage. .

I sometimes have that too; put some dry red wine in the mushrooms above. But I like sangria because I like sangria.

What would you have?

Borassodendron borneense, still growing.

Plant it

Absolutely fantastic! I see many ‘happy places’ in your garden to pause and ponder all the hard work. Tim

That is some kind of beautiful! Tim

@pj_orlando_z9b I haven't seen growth on clusia or seagrapes yet either. If I recall correctly they didn't sprout from the ground until it started getting hot again, so maybe near the end of the month? @ruskinPalms I've basically given up on C. Macrocarpa. They seem very susceptible to bud rot. I've lost about 6 or 7 of them over the past ~8 years, after frosts from 24.4 to even the upper 20s. Before the February freeze I had 3 small ones (2-3ft tall), a trunking Watermelon (8-10ft tall) and a trunking Hookeri (6+ ft tall). Two of the three small ones turned to mush, the third has a solid spear and has a chance. The big Watermelon spear pulled and was super stinky, so low chances of recovery. The bigger Hookeri seems to have a solid spear but no motion yet. On good news, I have new spears opening on three Attalea Brejinhoensis, one of three Arenga Pinnata (hard to tell on the others), my Triangle spears are opening but burnt at the ends...and the tiny Arenga Westerhoutii just opened up a new leaf. The trunk cut Bottles seem to be growing a new frond...the non-cut ones are all D-E-D. Along my bike route two homeowners cut out a group of 4 Christmas palms and replaced them with 2 Sylvesters. The other cut down 4 Foxtails. Next door there are still 4 bedraggled Foxtails. And 2 doors down two tall Royals just opened up 2 short but decent looking fronds.

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

Yes, a big space around it would be ideal!

The Wooly Wine Wonder palm?

Things were looking bleak for these Foxtails at Lake Miriam Square. These were newly planted only months before the freeze and were totally brown only a few weeks ago. They're coming back now. Here at the homestead, a Veitchia X Carpentaria that was marked as dead on my spreadsheet may make me a liar. It has a long way to go, but it was totally brown and dead only a few weeks ago. Tropical hardwoods like Delonix regia and Bursera simaruba are coming back.

That is a beauty! So is the C. hookeri!

Absolute Beast! Bravo!

Yes

It’s worth the risks!

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

Thank you Gene! These Dioones are cool.

Closer up on that thing!

Can anyone advise what this is?