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Dioon edule female I've grown 53 years from a 4 inch caudex. Currently pushing 34 leaves. 56 inch pot with 4 feet trunk. Fat!

This palm should be a top choice in SoCal. Fast and jaw-dropping.

Today the favorite is this Encephalartos which is currently flushing. I include some photos of it earlier in the flush.

Hey palmtalkers. Just wanted to share the progress of my bailey palm. I planted this one from an overgrown, rooted in the ground, 1 gallon baby palm back in May 2016. A picture of that at first planting is shown as well with it being the tiny palm, center of the pictures. It has about an overall height of 9 to 10 feet now to the top of the leaf. Has been slower growing for me than I would like. It gets way to much shade from the surrounding palms now that they outgrew the bailey. It's hard to show in the photos, but this one has that blue-green color. One I prefer. Has been through 3 major hurricanes. Irma, Ian, and Milton. Some winds from Helene as well. It still holds damaged leaves from Milton, but I didn't want to over trim. Took some leaves off and left the others. Hopefully now that it's getting larger and a bit more sun, it will start to grow a bit faster.

That's one of the furthest inland pre-2010 coconuts in Manatee county. It's been there at least since 2007 https://www.google.com/maps/@27.4392994,-82.4530506,3a,48.9y,26.72h,87.46t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s9lTgaiMreRLuOxA_fpQ0vw!2e0!5s20071101T000000!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D2.5371347235223425%26panoid%3D9lTgaiMreRLuOxA_fpQ0vw%26yaw%3D26.719328648313933!7i3328!8i1664?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDUwMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Not that this is a great answer...it would, until a good frost/freeze hits there. This one is very sensitive, but as one grower just demonstrated, it can come back from the roots if the freeze isn't too long/bad. But really it is one of the most sensitive Florida natives (note that it's a Caribbean native that extends on its margins really only to the Keys, which would put freezes basically out of the picture).

Two easy palms that are always setting seeds.

I grow this in Jacksonville FL ----collected the seeds in 1988 from habitat in Northern Domincan Republic --- in my front yard ---

May 2026.. 13 years in ground

The solitary one I have in Leucadia is getting more light now that I removed a Guava tree to its west and a little north. The top of the wall is 6 feet high for perspective.

Here is a better shot of the whole palm

I can’t believe I managed to get these ceroxylon seeds to germinat. I wasnt doubting the quality of seeds. I was more worried about my climate being to warm for once, pretty well much sown at the start of summer so my fear was was that I wasn’t going to be able to keep them cool enough to germinate. It was a long hot summer, so the seeds were kept inside on tile floor in the coolest part of the house. So nearly 6 months later they are a popping. Not sure what I will do with them I might have to send them to the polar bear growers down south!

That's good news! Thanks.

A few more pictures of the entire garden growth and shows the blue color better. Notice the Ptychosperma schefferi on the left. It was blown bent from Hurricane Ian. It was not uprooted. It's just got a little more swagger now. Kind of curvy.

100 today! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough

I cannot find any information on this palm, apart from it was wallichia nana. Does anyone have pictures of this palm?

Jonathon, your info makes perfect sense. Fulva is likely too heat sensitive for my climate. Mine died so definitively I decided not to apply my "3 strikes" rule and go straight to "out". BTW, last week I watched a Public Broadcast System documentary on some of the animals on Tasmania. Very cool. David Attenborough narrated and anything he does is great. Love that guy - 100 y.o. and still carrying on.

Unfortunately it is in a traffic zone, and it has caused me trouble before, right down to the doctor in Sydney wanting to know what palm it was! They are so hard to remove the needles. You can run your hand down the trunk, but heaven forbid the other way going up. Richard

Some nice dictyosperma album var conjugatum needed a bit of attention. So time to wack em across the potting bench. Thanks Merc!

The good old Chambeyronia and the dypsis saintlucei poking its head up above the greenhouse.

Gausia maya, Burretokentia hapala.

Excuses excuses, you polar bears need a a germinating lesson! But honestly would Tim our president of the southern palm mafia chapter send you the floater iam shocked at such accusations! I reckon it’s the happypalms knack!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 ps hopefully I can get a few to you

Together two sexes of C radicalis Male radicalis Female radicalis Male microspadix Female microspadix

Two very nice palms for the garden. The Radicalis can take sun but the Microspadix wants nice cool shade . I get a lot of seeds from both of these species. Just push them in the ground and …more palms! Harry Chamaedorea Microspadix fruit Chamaedorea Radicalis Tree Form , Palm is about 8’ tall (out of picture) fruit is hanging at eye level.

Tnx most cool tolerant Dypsis/Chrysalidocarpus spp are pretty easy this way.

Calyptrocalyx holrungii in flower

Great to hear. Here is mine. Location: Orlando, FL south side of town. I'm on the E side of a large lake, giving decent microclimate benefits especially on radiational cooling nights. Temperatures: 1 night below freezing. Feb 1: 46F / 25.7F Feb 2: 55F / 34.4F Feb 3: 65F / 34.8F Protection: some (marked with * below) From my personal experience, I'd rate hardiness of my palms as: 1a) Phoenix roebelenii (40% burn [front], 10% burn [backyard]) 1b) beccariophoenix alfredii (10-20% burn, mostly tips) 3) Majesty palms (50%-60% burn) 4a) Foxtail palm (total defoliation, spear had green) 4b) Bottle palm* (total defoliation, spear had green) 6) Coconut palm* (total defoliation, minimal green in spear) 7) Christmas palms* (total defoliation, minimal green in spear) I don't have Royals but from what I'm seeing around town, I'd put them above Foxtails. One note about my coconut. I did experience bleeding and after much research and courage, I did cut some of it away. thankfully it wasn't deep. After spraying with copper very well and allowing it to dry, I applied a natural homemade patch of beeswax, olive oil and tea tree. What I learned is it was caused by a broken irrigation system. ugh. Always check your system. My pump was breaking and basically poured water right on the coconut trunk. I'm guessing a stressed tree couldn't fight off some early rot. My recovery method was: 1) Within one week of freeze, sprayed with copper fungicide. Repeated every 10-14 days for 2 months or until I didn't notice any sign of rot. If I was really concerned about rot, applied Banrot to specific palms. 2) Within one week of freeze, applied a root stimulator and repeated once a month for 3 months. 3) 15 days after freeze, applied a recovery formula to soil which is basically a light fertilizer. 4) Once soil hit near 70F, applied fertilizer 5) Watering often especially with this bad drought and heat. All pics below are about 60-90 days apart.

Lit up underneath....... ✔️ Two outer palms curving outward ✔️ -10f survivors ✔️ Filifera trifecta ✔️ Growing in zone 7b unprotected ✔️

To me it just looks like cosmetic cold damage, nothing really bad . Now if you're experiencing spear pull/pulls then that could be a problem.

I was doing some research on S. domingensis and through some detective work and with the help of Google AI was able to find the location (in Bokeelia, Florida) of this house with the big old specimen out front. Sad to say this is yet another one of these situations where something great is felled...the above picture from 2021 is the last image with the palm in place. By September of 2023 it was gone. So sad when you think about how old this palm may have been. I'm hoping it wasn't a victim of an ignorant homeowner and rather of the hurricanes during that period, which included a 6-to-9-foot storm surge during Hurricane Ian in September 2022. This palm does come from a heavy-duty hurricane zone, so you might think it would stand tough against it, but it is S. causiarum, rather than S. domingensis, that occupies the hard-hit coastal zone...S. domingensis is typically found in the interior where it may not have evolved such a tough disposition...You can see the image progression on Google StreetView by looking at the past dates (click "see more dates") here.

Baronii and Ambositrae growing in such kind of medium

Found this on route 70 in Lakewood Ranch today. About 20-25' tall.

In Ventura California I have been seeing several Howea Foresteriana around the Industrial parks where my shop is . The Community Memorial Hospital has several mature Livistona Australis , large Howea Foresteriana , Chrysalidocarpus Lutescens, and beautiful Archontophoenix palms . Harry

Two different palms have come in over the years as Dypsis (now Chrysalidocarpus) Sp. Ambanja. The first was a multi trunk palm somewhat like Baronii. The second was a larger solitary palm. Mine has just revealed its first ring of trunk and is a really nice looking palm. Has similar characteristics as Leucomalla (white spear and coloring) and Sp. Dark Mealy Bug with the black flecking. But has a unique look of its own. Anyone else growing this?

Close to all day full sun 1.5 miles from the ocean.

Mine is beginning to look like something 🙂

Mine has been a great grower for me. The colors on the crownshaft and petioles are great. I just recently took a close up photo of the trunk showing the coloration:

I have some of the same seed batch and they are germinating well. About 50% to date. In a baggie outside in a shady spot here in NZ.

Dypsis prestonia, they just bigger each new leaf, a fast growing palm!

Here’s some more pictures Tracy thank you

This lizards favorite cycad today.

As she cracks open and I have begun harvesting what I hope are fertilized seeds, there is no denying that this cone is providing as much color as any flowers in the garden. A friend who runs a landscaping business that does tree trimming was over to look at the neighbor's Brazilian Pepper tree to give an estimate on it's removal yesterday. When he walked through the garden this plant was what caught his eye and got him to stop in awe. It was a combination of the plant itself and this colorful open cone, so verification that it is one that stands out in a garden full of cycads.

My favorite E. eugene maraise of the "Palala" form. Not growing this year -- yet! Sorry for the wash-out, but my sun is relentless!!!! (Pay no attention to the latifrons in the foreground.)

Thanks Jim. Gene, would you believe if I said I bought it as a non-hybrid, just a straight Encephalartos latifrons? I guess I will find out someday when it cones if its the real thing, but I love it either way.

Those fotos were 5 years old. Here's some taken just today: "my" zamia splendens zamia cross (picta/splendens) Encephalartos lehmannii kirkwood form I love the large bronze leaves the splendens produces each year. The Enc lehmannii kirkwood form is spectacularly blue and is unfazed by the sun and heat (although it is under 50% shadecloth). rod phoenix, az

I don't think that is a Cycas. It looks more like a big and old Microcycas calcoma with those abbreviated leaf tips and pendent leaflets. I have a baby flushing right now. Leaflets start out tiny in the flush and just keep getting larger. When the flush on mine is finished pushing and hardens off, the similarities will show.

My favorite this morning

Very nice Tracy. I have noticed that all my latifrons hybrids seem to show more more of the latifrons characteristics with each flush. Here is a picture of my blue arenarius x latifrons. The leaves of the last flush started to recurve. Look forward to seeing all these latifrons hybrids mature.