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Bactris gassiapaes, Chambeyronia watermelon and a rather well dressed moth.

Updated shots after initial overcast:

Paradise 🤪

You're overthinking it... The palm looks perfectly fine and has no disease. In the real world, you are going to see occasional brown spots,dried leaf tips, bug chews, wind damage, oldest fronds yellow, etc. Absolutely perfect specimens are rare, are usually greenhouse grown, and will incur the minor imperfections you note if placed outside. Rainstorms can never over water it. 🤷‍♂️ aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Definitely time to re-pot those Chinese Fan palms into a larger container. Don’t worry about those minor imperfections on the petioles.

Beautifully lustrous!!

Howea, Chambeyronia,chamaedorea!

Sabal Yapa opening a new frond

Lanonia dasyantha

Small flowering specimen in a pot. Died slowly from 20 F and ice. A larger inground specimen nearby saw around 21, dry and windy, with moderate damage.

Outside of the Malone United Methodist Church there is another DeFuniak or Brazoria looking palmetto. Malone is about 60 miles from DeFuniak springs. It definitely isn’t a palmetto. Most likely a sabal minor and palmetto hybrid. It could be the same as the DeFuniak palm or a brazoriensis or some other hybrid brought in and planted there.

I can see how this Cycas Siamensis “Silver form” got its name. I wish the leaves would stay silver like this but they usually start turning green in a few days after this stage.

The offset on the main caudices is flushing. It is like a wort on the otherwise perfectly symmetrical main plant. Perhaps I should see it ss a beauty mark instead? A chunky monkey Encephalartos longifolius male.

Here is a really big adult female at Mounts Botanical Garden in West Palm Beach

It’s a juvenile thing 😁 I totally trust the place I got it from

I am a little suspicious about the identity of your Encephalartos cerinus based on the relative width to length of the leaflets. I don't recall mine at that age and whether wider leaflets are just a juvenile trait, so I could be wrong. My boy has had a little green tip poking out, threatening to flush for about a month. No changes thus far though. You can see the leaflets are relatively narrow in the leaf photo.

Dioon edule, “Palma Sola” pushing up its first Encephalartos cerinus with a new frond

From the looks of that building, it’s WAY WAY older than the Queen palm that is about twenty years old. That building certainly wasn’t built in 2006 or later. I’ve seen many cases of palms “hugging” the walls they are right next to.

There’s some cones, there is some flushes but people often ask how do i propagate suckers/offsets or how do i pollinate a cone, how do i know when it’s ready etc….. today i removed a couple nice offsets from one of my female E. Dyerianus plants. A fairly easy process depending on plant location and soil. These happen to be in easy digging soil. I removed the excess dirt around the area of the offset. Today my tools consisted of a hammer and crowbar. Simply placed the crowbar between the offset and main stem and a couple love taps later we have a beautifully removed female dyerianus sucker. I treat these in a fungicide and add a rooting powder to the exposed areas on the offset. Place in perlite or pumice and give it a good water in. Sit back and wait for your roots to grow….

A nice dypsis plumosa in the sandstone countryside and a Areca vestria not wanting to miss out on any attention!

Thrinax excelsa:

Bentnickia condapanna, one tough palm, it’s so dry at the moment and the condapanna is still looking good! It could look better with a lot more water, but iam impressed at how tough they are!

Some of my coconut palms from the top

Licuala bracteata showing some promise of its potential!

The leaflets are also more rigid and less smooth to the touch on C houailou than C macrocarpa. Someone else pointed out that when the salmon color fades it get's more of bluish tint, I find the blue tint is similar to that of newly opened leaflets on Kentiopsis oliviformis.