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@juju95 I would say Elaeis Guineensis, but a rare mutation called "whole leaf" or "Idolatrica." ...and welcome to Palmtalk!

Mine is nice and curvy…

Hey Tom, thank you for the kind message. Let me give you my honest opinion about warm winters. The only thing why I pray for a mild winter is because of my plants , that's the only reason. I can't stand long periods of hot weather and I really hoped for a cooler winter to get a break from the never-ending summer lol. We have 2 more months of zick zack weather then the weather patterns become more stable and warmer. I miss the snow that's why I'm going to spend 5 days in Colorado next week.

@PalmBossTampa It does look like you might have gotten the link for the poster rather than the thread. I took the liberty to correct it in your post. All: For the podcasts mentioned, we've linked them on the CFPACS site on our Publications page: https://cfpacs.com/org/palmateer/ The Webinar I did back in February 2021 is the third link down IPS Webinar - A Blank Slate to Flourishing Palm Garden. All of them were great from my point of view, but some of them are not searchable. In addition to webinars, all of the CFPACS publications back to 1990 are posted for everyone to enjoy. Hope this helps.

Sunny ( for most areas of town. Some clouds hanging around to the west / north ) and 71F at 3:49PM as the first weekend of 26 and ..most.. of the holiday lights come down for the year.. Week ahead looks ..pretty avrg. Maybe more spit mid week. Yesssir, when it comes to rain, anything less than .25" is ..spit. Dry ( ..or so it appears atm ) beyond that slight chance for rain. Looking at the two, main extended forecasts i trust the most ( ..which isn't 100% btw ) Not too bad. Like time and date's more but it has a tendency to flip n' flop more than WX Undergrounds.. Heck, half an hour ago, it was tempting me with a couple 80F days as we approach mid month. Current " flip " holds temps down in the more logical lower 70s for the same timeframe.. We'll see if either pans out. That said, ..If today's 6 - 10 and 8 - 14 day thoughts from the CPC are roughly " in the park " as we head forward, perhaps the first 80F day(s) of 2026 are possible, sooner than i'd thought. Nice thought, but, ..we'll see.. Regardless, not a bad look / nuthin' to howl about as we trek thru the middle of " winter " here in the low desert / rest of the Southwest.. Think CA could use a nice break from the rain again too. Pretty decent Spring Wildflower season appears to be locked in for most of the state this year. Some pockets of color around to enjoy i'm sure ..but, not looking like a " super - year " out here this spring.. Want a lot of Snow in the mountains ..Outside parts of the Pac. N.W / upper interior west / Sierra? ( Don't think it's looking all that great, despite the storms, up there too ) this winter ain't looking like your winner. Still some time of course, ..but, you'd be better not to place any bets on a February or March Miracle this year.

Those hybrids you have mentioned, have considerably thicker trunks.

The one in the photo grew on its own. The ones I made, the ones that had suckers and looked more like Microspadix and were in pots, died because I couldn't water them. The ones that looked more like Radicalis were in the garden and survived. Your next question will be why the potted ones that looked more like Microspadix died. Here's the answer:

It’s not cunninghamiana or purpurea. On the basis of probability I’d go with alexandrae but that’s a pure guess. To rule out tuckeri, myolensis, or maxima you’d need to see it in flower and up close, to start narrowing it down properly.

Naive me didn’t initially think of intellectual property legalities, by-laws of the orginization etc. Just would be great for the expansion of palm knowledge to better release whats been learned into modern media world IPS site on YouTube doesn’t include many of the webinars that CFPACS has linked so they are hard to find. This may end up being a good source of revenue for preservation ?

I need a good tutorial from @kinzyjr here’s which post

Yep, it's not cheap. That said, you have some time to decide what you want to do and maybe you'll get a scholarship or some grants to offset the cost. I didn't start growing palms until after I graduated, so you have a leg up there. My choices when I graduated were moving here or moving to SoCal. The primary drivers for coming here were that it was cheaper for housing and I already knew a few people in the area. If you're open to other options as far as majors, USF and UCF have some really good programs and are public. They also have decent botanical areas on campus. FIT in Melbourne has the Dent Smith Trail and is very close to a lot of other botanical gardens and CFPACS members. If you and the family happen to be in the neighborhood down here, go ahead and holler and I can show you all around. My garden is always open to you all for a tour as well: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/52296-palms-and-others-of-interest/ Good luck with whatever you decide to do with the college/university.

i just did some research and florida southern is a private college that 46,000 dollars a year, plus you have to live in dorms all 4 years my only other option is Florida university for horticulture. Gainesville is definitely not better than jacksonville for palms.

I have searched everywhere which palm tree in Singapore botanic gardens this is but I can’t get behind the exact species.

Agreed. And wow!!

Lucky us 🤬 This was not on yesterday's forecast but it's coming into its own. Look for growing blue across the eastern US as the days move along. It's January after all and there are no free rides.

Hey Tin, thank you for the compliments! I do not have any true Decipiens in the garden. I had one in a 10 gallon pot but it died before I found a home for it in the ground. As you mentioned, I do have the Blue Decipiens and I also have a Decipiens hybrid. In my opinion that is one big Chrysalidocarpus / Dypsis that looks better in a drier climate like Southern California. I'm not sure I've seen many here in Hawaii that impress me when I see them.

Most places over that way are a little cooler and get more frost. There might be some areas around the middle of Plant City that are a little milder. Even just outside of town is more susceptible to frost and cold. You mentioned Florida Southern in the other thread - that area tends to have good microclimates.

Nice find, @Maddox Gardening-youtube. I posted these on the Remarkable Palms of Tampa Bay thread last year. They are probably the tallest in my area.

Hmm ok! Because I thought I saw a few arenarums, but maybe they were just all lutescens at the end of the day. I have another one I marked down as a pembana but I am not too sure, it isn't the highest quality image anyway

We'll miss you if you don't make it, but a lot of them are pretty far away from your area. We should have some fall events up that way. Some of the membership up your way may have some stuff going on or maybe the First Coast or Southeastern Palm Society. As far as colleges go, which one? There's Florida Southern College, Southeastern University, Florida Polytechnic University, Polk State College, and then some of the private universities like Keiser. Also, which field of study?

i might not be going for a while, im also been thinking of going to college in lakeland. do you know anything about the college there.

@Maddox Gardening-youtube Check the Affiliates Section for past/present/future meetings and events: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/forum/8-affiliate-news-and- meeting-dates/ As far as the meeting site and event schedule for the year go, the events section of the website should be up-to-date: https://cfpacs.com/org/events/ The meeting sites are at the bottom. Let me know if you didn't receive the email from the membership account. When I checked the sent messages a few minutes ago, your account was on the send list.

I posted the white one earlier. Here's the pink one.

Simply great 🤗

Tentatively set 1st meeting @ Jones Landscape Nursery in Moore Haven 3/21/2026

These look recently transplanted to me

Not overkill . My friend Kurt has a few botanical pics on the wall of his classic home . Harry

Go capio! Si el me zardin xe beo grando. Mi go do trachycarpus, una CIDP, una filifera, una c. Humilis e una dactylifera che però a tegno ancora in vaso parché a xe picoeta. In giro te vedi sopratutto trachycarpus, parché e xe più resistenti, però ti pol vedare anche sti altri tipi de palme..

The infamous WodVeitchia. $120ea. 5gals TampaBay area. 3 these available in this size

Yeah, a tough call to be sure at that age. Arenarium definitely seem to have a much more maroon “push“ when young. But they’re obviously closely aligned with lutecsens. Most of the ones posted also seem to cluster similarly. The one I have (via Floribunda), which purchased about 14 years ago, remained solitary and is a moderate size palm currently about 25 feet in height. If I were to drive by it in someone else’s garden, I would think “lutecsens”. Interestingly, that palm has been seeding for a number of years, while a similarly aged lutecsens clump has not.

Hi Marcus, these are summer temperatures—at least they would be here. Did you and your family have a good New Year's Eve? Unfortunately, it's very cold here, colder than normal, but you would definitely like it. There's snow on the ground and yes, it looks beautiful. We wish you a happy new year here. It's only January 4, so it still counts. We haven't had any days of ice yet. However, we did have a low temperature of -8.6°C here in the community garden, which is really cold. It was freezing, but luckily it rose to between 2 and 4°C during the day, which we are very happy about... Best regards from the mild Lake Constance region—that was a good joke, or 😁

Beautifull garden and collection, indeed eye candy 😍

Golf course at Lajitas Resort, which borders Big Bend and the Rio Grande.

I went walking in Crescent Bend Nature Park today. The area was a residential area until it flooded in 1996 and 1997. It was then made into a park with lots of trails. There are a couple of old Washingtonias in the park that were likely in someone's backyard at some point. They blend in nicely in the savanna environment of the park though:

Zamia inermis sending up its first flush

Very few of my cycads are currently flushing however the previous flush leafs are spreading out and making room for the next flushes so hopefully soon I’ll have more to post. Currently I have an Encephalartos sclavoi that’s putting out a nice flush. I also have a Encephalartos delucanas that is pushing out a two leaf flush. These are very slow growers but I think it will start to grow faster now that it’s a bit more established.

3 out of 10 germinated so far

I want to put out there that Caryota Urens are very dangerous when they get big. Do not wait for them to flower….cut them down when they get large. I had been warned by @DoomsDave but after posting on here and talking to my tree service , decided to wait for the first inflorescence. DON’T DO IT! We had a nasty Santa Ana wind event following a good amount of rain. That is all it took . This morning I got a text from my neighbor “ your palm fell over! . It was straddling her driveway , her husband had already left for work and his brand new truck would have been crushed! I guided her out of her driveway so she could come and go. My small electric chainsaw won’t help with this one. Harry we got lucky with this one! Harry

2 pics from yesterday and 2 from today. I love this dypsis Mt. something or other

Looks great Todd - I remember that tough winter of 2018 and your successful trunk cut. I went through the same process that same winter with my Copernicia alba (a first for me). Not growing nearly as fast but it was dug up and transplanted across the state back in 2022.

December 2025.

DON’T plant Caryota urens in suburban settings!

Clear Lake Shores, Texas

Sabal uresana and two individuals of Brahea decumbens on a warm December day in Central Texas

Just a handful of local pics from yesterday. Nice robusta at the San Antonio Zoo: A little coconut still hanging in there in December, also at the zoo. I liked this pair of S. mexicana on the river at The Pearl. I thought the people in the shot help demonstrate the scale. At my own house this morning, I caught a tenant living in my Washingtonia. This Washingtonia continues to grow at a rapid pace. Here it was when planted late in May of 2024: In October 2024: May 2025: And today:

I am a recent IPS member and admittedly the IPS journal 'Palms' (Principes) is a treasure of information, especially articles of local botanists on their native flora are very interesting. Just to mention a couple of them as examples, one on Arenga in Thailand and another on Guihaia in China. To my disappointment though I found out that an electronic index in the form of data base is available only for a small part of journal, all old b/w issues and most of the colorful ones are still missing from the index, and a reader searching for a particular topic, has to scroll through the individual index of each one of the older issues (after the whole issue is downloaded in pdf format). This is imo an enormous waste of time and imo an inexplicable flaw. I mean every issue contains 3 to 4 articles plus some bulletins with botanical (ie not administrative ) interest. I do not consider a heavy duty, that total content be sorted out in a digitized index according to concerned palm genus or even sp (with a simple link to the relevant issue of the journal, as it is already the situation with the more recent issues). E.g. I came recently entirely randomly across a most valuable and new information (for me and I bet also for many other European growers), that namely Phoenix rupicola (although a Phoenix) should be sensitive to chemical fertilizers (salt accumulation). It was for me as if I had discovered a new continent and it is such a great pity, that I can not find again easily (or at all!) the source of this information...

Hmmm, that photo sure looks like a Chrysalidocarpus (Dypsis) lastenella to me. Which is a gorgeous palm, but iffy here in California (based on what I read). Are you sure that's the parent? The palm I'm seeing listed under the name Dypsis mijoroana has less of a "banded" trunk. Here's what I was picturing when I saw the "mijoroana" name in your ad... The above photo was taken from the following Palmtalk page, where they were discussing the similarities between mijoroana, lastenella & nauseosa. If your plant is likely to look like the above photo I would be REALLY tempted to buy it, but it looks to me as if your plant favors the "lastenella" cosmetics (which again is lovely, but similar to the leptocheilos palm, which I already have a lot of). Dypsis / Chrysalidocarpus has SOOOO many mysteries!

Current situation. Pictures taken today (February 2, 2023).

Did you crack and remove outer shell? If not, you'll only get about 10% germination. The outer shell is easy to remove. Just let them dry for a couple days, then place them on a concrete sidewalk with some newspaper. Roll around with your foot applying light pressure, the shells will crack and come off easily. They will look brownish like a mini basketball. Now soak them a couple days and plant. You'll get about 90% germination if they are fresh. I sprout these all the time.