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A while back one of you knowledgeable persons ID’d this unusual Chamaedorea and stupid me can’t remember what it is. It’s solitary, fruits are tiny and brownish black when ripe, nodes on trunk are bulged and irregular, and leaflets are droopy and a bit irregular. The palm is roughly fifteen years old.

Parajubaea sunkha all decked out. Merry Christmas! IMG_4013.mov

Two beaches in one day for Christmas in beautiful Puerto Rico. Plenty of palms! Happy Holidays everyone!

Here’s a better picture of Houailou.

Wish you a merry Christmas. Here’s Houailou and Hookeri in the background (two, look closely!) after our rainy Christmas Eve. Maybe share a nice palmy Christmas picture, even if the palms are indoors….

Anytime of the year for a Chambeyronia, cheers to all!

Sending good Wishes to have Merry Christmas with a safe & creative New Year, to Palm Lovers to the North, South, East, and to the West of greater Miami and the Redlands. We are preparing to plant 100 Palms at the soon to open "Bailey Botanic Garden" this Holladay Season. "Three generations of Baileys, planting a Bailey Palm on Christmas day 2024, everyone got their hands dirty, even baby Lilly."

There's Chamaedorea glaucifolia/Chamaedorea plumosa in that. Whatever it is, most likely a hybrid.

I bought 60 1-gallon nursery pots for $20 on eBay, and they arrived yesterday. Potted up the two offshoots on my Needle Palm today. I’ll keep them indoors during freezes while they get accustomed to their new pots.

Why are you guys in sun? Cold and rainy up here . No red leaves or sunny garden pics here! Been raining steady since this morning. I mean I understand it is summer in Australia but we are in the middle of a rain event in Southern California. Glad you are getting a bit of a break @DoomsDave and @quaman58 . Enjoy while you can and thanks for the nice pics . Harry 😎

Merry Christmas from Pearland Livistona nitida, Copernicia alba, ButiaLivistona decoraQueen w/bananasButia sp.Sold as Livistona australisRavenea rivularis-Majesty palmQueen on left, King on right w/ Majesty Palm behind

Looks like cracking the Butia seeds is working for me for anyone else getting impatient!

It does look a lot like a specimen in my garden, which had been exhibited previously in the forum for identification. Latter is obviously a hybrid although obtained initially as a glaucifolia seedling. Mine has shorter fronds but it is exposed to strong, northern wind and full sun. It is a miracle, that it remains alive, imo a strong indication of hybrid resilience. Are the fruits of your plant naturally small or just not pollinated? There must be far more hybrids out there, than those listed by Hodel.

Darold, Leaves are bright green with no hint of blue or gray. Fruits are very tiny. Trunk is super knobby.

We had already discovered these, but another gardener had cut them back too far ☹️ What are they?

"We had already discovered these, but another gardener had cut them back too far" After some time, these pampas grasses get large (unless you get a dwarf one) and usually need to be cut back to keep them looking best. Usually this is done before the spring warm weather encourages them to grow again. They will eventually die out in the center of the clump. When that happens some people will dig up, divide the outside living ring of grass, and replant the divisions. Others will just set the clump on fire to thin it, if their is no danger of the fire spreading. In my area where we are never too dry, the moisture down in the dense grass does not kill the living parts of the clump, when burned.

Perhaps C. glaucifolia ?

A more recent look at the palm during our recent flooding rains. Palm is in the right in this video. IMG_4123.mov

Just don't turn into me lol. I'm about to buy a pile of 3 and 5g pots and I pray I can sell this stuff before it gets any bigger than that.

You're not wrong! 😂 Thank you, and Merry Christmas to you as well.

Looks like newer plantings I haven’t seen a single decora surviving anywhere around here from the 2021 event . Just newer plantings

Buying pots in bulk will only lead to bad things 😂 Merry Christmas homey.

Thanks Ryan ! Just looked it up and for sure that’s it. I’ll put a plastic tag on it for others next time i visit I thought spines looked like fierce sets of fake eyelashes 🤣

79ºF (26ºC) / 61ºF (16ºC) and no complaints... Got a gifted palm shirt and a tropical hat to go with the warm Xmas weather. Ryan

I have several sprouting and growing freely on their own. I also have quite a few in pots . They are all tree form , eventually forming trunks. This is on of a few community pots I started a while ago . Harry one of the most care free palms in my garden!

Thank you very much, Ante🤗 for your Identification.

Merry Christmas from Houston, TX! Currently 80F/27C for a near record-warm Christmas Day after 4 years straight of quite cold 12/25.

NOT jealous of the folks who install/uninstall those. We do appreciate their effort! Maybe next year red/white stripes? Merry Christmas 🎄

Merry Christmas

Not sure. Planted in 2020 I think, germinated probably 2013-2014.

Merry Christmas to all ! Stunning photo and cute Santa @pogobob ! Harry Ernie says “Hey!” Looks like time to repot already.

Pampas grass

@peachy , the palm squad can go over to Happypalms and retrieve whatever you need . Harry

Iam sure the buddha statue can rest easy under the pinnatafrons for now. Richard

EXTREME wind today in Carlsbad (North San Diego county). Okay, I hear laughing from some of you, but it was extreme by SoCal standards! I noticed my husband was laying down palms, so took some video (this isn’t even the windiest moment). My yard is particularly vulnerable due to so many palms still residing in pots. Some like the Licuala sumawongii did amazingly well (confirming I picked a great spot for it). Others needed to be laid down or moved to a spot sheltered from the wind. Anyway, hope you enjoy watching my under construction garden get blown around a bit! Dec-24-2025-1766642514_4973559.mp4

Great Christmas day here, 25C and sunny with light winds. Hasn't been the greatest holiday period though and looks quite wet at times through next week also.

I was just remarking that all of our palm trunks should look like like california palm trunks. Just using the beach boys lyrics(california girls) and inserting palm trunks. Of course I know all your palms are in california, unless you have purchased another property that I don't know about.

At Mounts Botanical Garden in West Palm Beach. Zamia variegata Encephalartos ferox Macrozamia mooreii Dioon spinulosum

Possibly in the wrong hemisphere for this kind of Christmas...15 degrees! The mad spring from hell continues into summer. Must have killed a snowman in a former life. A few warm days ahead next week though. Have a good and safe break people!

Formerly the largest mass planting of ribbon palms in Texas...ribbon palms for miles and miles along the Gulf Freeway in Houston 🌴 It's amazing how quickly people forget what the city looked like 5 years ago. So much doom and gloom and people not wanting to grow anything 🤷‍♂️. Glad to see a glimpse of a brighter future!

We wish everyone a Merry Christmas 🤗

Whoa! Check out those Ribbon Palms! Wonder how long they’ve been there for?

I pollinated my one of my Anthurium besseae x magnificums with forgetii pollen. Out of the whole crop, I got ONE weird plant. And he really is weird. I named him 'Mr. Wonky'. His leaves are all weirdly shaped. His spadix is on an EXTREMELY short petiole and is fasciated All in all, just a strange guy

Today, I got my hands on some PalmGain. The price was advertised as $5.94 but only paid $4.16 at checkout. At the MCX in Camp Lejeune of all places too.

Looks to be Coccothrinax. The tall "bottle palm" I believe is a survivor Hyophorbe indica. This is Oliver's office, he used to post here.

Sunny and nice today with 20 C max (68 F). We went for cycling with husband. We don't do autumn colours here, everything stays green. Real winter here starts end of December normally.