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One of my unknown Prtichardias has a spadix with flowers emerging from it's spathe for the first time. The spathe is an interesting cluster of bulbuous shaped heads that individually open. I don't have Don Hodel's book on Pritchardia species to help identify the species. Thoughts are always welcome.

Pritchardia

Thought I’d bump this thread again. One of the advantages of garden tours here on Hawaii Island, you are sometimes gifted with seedling by the host. Such is the case with these two Pelagodoxa from a Palm Society event about ten years ago. They have grown well despite lack of soil and have obviously found fractures in the lava rock. The one is starting to seed, but the other one is taking its time. In another recent post, a thread about Anthurium, these palms are located in the same area, but are taller than surrounding plantings and do suffer a bit with wind gusts. Tim

Nice job, and it come in at the right price, free with a bit of labour.

Hers a couple of licuala sallehana var sallehana in the garden and they are taking the cool temperature, both cool and wet conditions. Another great licuala winner in the subtropical climate.

Same here in Australia very common. Now you only see archontophoenix, Bismarckia, rhapis, golden canes and Howea. The chain stores have a lot to answer for in wiping out those nurseries that once had a lot more variety of plants! Richard

That’s a great comeback!

I have some possible pink rot on one of my Archontophoenix cunninghamiana trunks. I noticed it when watering an orchid I have attached to it's trunk. Does this look like pink rot?

My Hydriastele beguinii Obi Island seems to be losing it's entire leaf characteristics as it grow bigger and taller, My yucca is flowering. and Nymphaea wanvisa red also flowered in the pond. Finally, a branch of the Ficus benjamina came down from thirty feet above, landed only about 2' from where I was standing. I don't think I would be making this post if it landed on my head.

Stopped by today…July 15, 2026… and it’s doing a lot better than it was last August (the last three pics were from last year when I thought it wasn’t gonna make it).

They grow by the thousands in my area. Just about every part of the subtropical rainforest you go into they are there. Often seen growing with Livistona Australis and linospadix monostachya and lepidozamia peroffskyana in their habitat. You have some great Australian palms there !

Howdy, I recently acquired a fairly large S. uresana. I am pretty confident it was owned by a member of this forum at some point in time. I can’t find much info on growing uresana in 8b wet winter environments other than it grows slow. The one I have is green. It’s hard to know if it will get some blue coloration in full sun (it looks nursery or green house grown.. really long upright petioles). I’ve also read about experiences where people have seen their uresana lose the blue coloration, only for it to come back several years later when the plant was much more mature. Time will tell if this is truly a green form or not. The newest leaf is more blue but not dramatically so. it’s about 9 to 10 feet tall to the tip of the tallest fronds and I’ve planted it on a mound with steep sides in a full sun location in the middle of my yard. I’m wanting to give it the best chance to shrub off winter rains here in 8b Oregon. Either way this will be an interesting experiment. The fact that it’s so large gives me hope that it might grow at a reasonable pace once it’s fully established after a few years in the ground but we will see. I imagine the new leaves will be smaller and on much shorter petioles while it focuses on root development over the next couple years. I planted the root ball about 90% intact without much disturbance or damage to the roots. Anyone have any insights to share on this sabal or how it handles cold/wet winters? I’ll post updates along the way, wish me me luck!

I do. As far as I know I was the only one attempting this palm. I grew one for years in Clackamas Zone 9A and they had one planted at Raintree Tropical in Silverton Zone 8B. I'm not sure if its your camera but the color looks yellow to me. Doesn't look like the blue form, but not dark green enough for the green form so time will tell. However when you look at my videos below the blue color doesn't come through all that great either. If yours is a green form it will be less hardy. I had the Highlands or Silver form. I currently grow both forms of this palm, and green is a much faster growing palm, similar to other large Sabal species. The one at Raintree in the display gardens was maybe 3-3.5' tall and was killed one winter when Salem got some pretty cold air. Mine survived, but barely grew, it got a little bigger every year. It would hold about 4 fronds and was under 2' tall. Planted full sun, well draining soil and watered regularly in summer and fertilized with Palmgain each spring. My last year winter in Oregon, we had that winter bomb cyclone 2022/2023 and it killed it with protection. I cut off all the fronds and left the stump in place, but around late June it reappeared and regrew all the fronds it lost. Now that I am down here in Houston, and live in a very Sabal friendly climate I have a better understanding of these palms. I grew at least 8 species/hybrids/varieties of Sabal in Oregon and here double that number. There are mature uresana here in Houston, although they are rare. If I move back to Oregon would I want to grow a Sabal uresana? - the answer is no. At best they're going to limp along and remain small, but larger ones are likely to fade away over a few years. You can't replace the heat and sun intensity that we get here, and uresana and a large number of the Sabals really need it. So I think you got a great palm and starting with a larger one is likely a good move, but I don't think your chances for success are in your favor. Based on my experience I would say the best performing Sabals for Oregon are minor, Louisiana, Birmingham (so slow), Brazoriensis (will trunk), Rosei (trunking) and palmetto (hardiest of the trunking Sabals). Rosei was a real surprise, they are much hardier than reported. These are the last videos I posted of it. Apparently I had two, but I don't remember the smaller one. Picture of one of my current Highlands form. Its far more silver in real life. Uploading Attachment...

Hello, Removing a dead frond on my Cuban unveiled a possible pink rot issue. I am in Santa Ana, CA. is anyone able to confirm if pink rot and what I should do?

It doesn’t look great Tracy, although I wouldn’t have thought that pink rot would be problematic in the woody parts. (Seems like it’s there much of the time). I could be wrong in that assumption though. The only palm I’d ever lost to the rot was a young royal that was injured after a freeze, and then became infected in the growing point.

Well It seems the dry pattern in my yard has been broken. It's rained almost eveeyday teh last few except yesterday but just woke up to some intense storms.

I always thought my oldest and largest Trachycarpus Fortunei is male, as it never produced any seeds and because it had all the traits of male infructesence. But this year it’s as if it discovered its female side. Obviously it struggles with this new task and so the fruits/seeds it produces look very odd. Only very few seeds look like regular Trachycarpus seeds. Can anyone tell me what this is?

Do you have any photos from previous seasons when you thought it was a male? Definitely appears female now.

Pretty impressive, my wife dreams of growing such beauties indoors!

I think it’s time to call in @tim_brissy_13 to give us an answer on this one. He’s a bit of a trackycarpus fan.

Everything seems to check out for P hillebrandii I think.

Thanks Joseph, comment is appreciated. Tim

Looking to see if anyone can locate or has or knows someone that has a Jubaea x syagrus hybrid. I have seen some in person and find them absolutley amazing. Any for sale out there ?

This is my mulch and it’s still not enough cardboard 😂

Complete opposite this morning to yesterday mornings -0.5C. Yesterday rose to 22.4C which surprised me. Lastnight by midnight it dropped to 10C but by 2.30am it had risen to 19.6C!! It topped at 19.8C and it’s just before sun rise and hovering around 19C. A cold front will come through later. What a contrast of minimums in two days.

Approximately 12 inches of rain for me since the early morning of July 14.

Common ones on the SE coast are live oak, laurel oak and willow oak. Pix of acorns may help.

Oh and of course a beautiful little dypsis louvelli

A nice winter morning with the birds singing away. IMG_5067.mov

😁 YES !

A nice trio of Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana coping well in the cool conditions.

cocothrinax alta, ptychosperma nicolai both doing well.

This lot are doing well for winter, with 2 degrees celcius in the air this morning! Iam quite surprised for the middle of winter that they are doing fairly well, there have been a couple of winter casualties so the cool conditions are there to kill palms. With six weeks of winter so far it started off as warm start but that soon ended when the whales started to migrate north from Antarctica (I think @Jonathan organised them to bring his cold weather with them!) Do far so good with this lot it just goes to show a little zone pushing and willing to take the risk on seeds the rewards are there, Ive had more winter winners than losers, so that’s saying something about the odds in my favour in my climate!

Burretiokentia koghiensis was planted as a 5gl from Joe in San Marcos about five years ago.

I have a couple grown from seed. In my greenhouse often humid microenvironment these have been sensitive to overwatering and seem to like light, airy soil with peat in it (helps lower pH). I also use distilled water with them.

Ok, thanks Ben.

And they are not even in my greeenhouse or hothouse, just outside under the verandah on the NE side of the house dry and not wet in the rain. Cold wet conditions is what gets your seedlings, not this batch! So far so good!

@Banana Belt I see this a lot with local Sabals. The ones in natural forests here are usually full crown but all the fronds below about halfway down are dead and crispy brown. But they fall off complete with the boot in time and leave a completely smooth trunk. Only the Sabals in people's yards still have boots, for the most part. It's probably because people cut off the frond and then gravity doesn't pull the boot off, like you said. I routinely cut off brown or cold-damaged fronds for cosmetic or clearance issues. But I try to not tear off boots until they are ready to fall off. If I'm pruning stuff and the boots just peel off easy then I'll peel them off until I find one with some resistance, and stop there. The only exception is stuff like a Bottle palm, where I use a razor knife and super sharp shears to carefully snip off the old boots. I might clean up old boots on a Bismarck or Alfredii for similar cosmetic reasons...and because the giant flying cockroaches ("palmetto bugs") love to live in the rotting old boots...

Sure is, Tim. 🙂

No Dictyocaryums, but I do have several Ceroxylons, Hedyscepes, Lepidorrhachis, and Geonoma palms. Also, about 15 Chamaedorea species. Thanks for the compliments.

My only Pritchardia is P. Hillebrandii brought home from Maui years ago in a 3” pot! It has survived for at least 15 years here in Santa Paula . Planted next to my house for protection , although I’m not sure it needed it. Harry

Very warm and very dry start to summer. Multiple days over 100F, and long stretches between rain. I fertilized a month or so ago, and been watering a couple times a week. Getting some beautiful green growth. All discoloration was from transplant shock last year, and will probably trim it all off next spring. So far, just been clipping the burnt-ends. It’s putting out its 4th frond of the summer, and all the new ones at over 7ft long. Easily my favorite plant in the yard, and very exotic looking for the area. NC Zone 8a.

Well written words, people hear the word licuala and think tropical water loving, not cool tolerant and down right hard to grow. Like you said they are over looked for some strange reason. They are fantastic container specimen palms. And the amount of different phenotypes available is staggering. I guess a lot of growers are distracted by other more popular palms. I say dont underestimate the licualas!

I think there’s already enough to tell it’s not a Cocoid. Looks like Nannorrhops.

I am enjoying the color of this unknown species id Anthurium's flower spadix.

May we be blessed (and FAST) with returning daylight on the Solstice today

The infructescence color on A. pseudospectabile is such an intense orange and definitely gets a second look. Tim

Looks like you had to “tear” the boot off instead of it coming off easily based on the vertical tares on the trunk. Some pink rot is not unusual inside old boots and usually isn’t a big concern unless it’s allowed to enter tender tissue. I’m not sure, from the photo, if that’s pink rot or just exposed tissue coloring though. To be safe, I’d spray that area of the trunk with an anti-fungal.

A couple of views of another orchid in bloom this Spring. A smaller orchid and flower but not what I would call a miniture: Sedirea (Aerides) japonica. I really liked the wide leaflets on this and didn't really know what the flowers would look like when I was first attracted to it. Seeing photos of the flowers hanging down like this closed me on the deal. I initially was growing it in a different spot in the garden, but hung the stick off one of the fronds of my dense multi-stemmed Dypsis heteromorpha. It seems to like the filtered light and mid-day shade provided by a Pritchardia overhead with its big round shade providing leaves.

Thank you for your input. This is a palm that should be grown by my more enthusiats who can accomidate their cultrural requirements. Ron.