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Yes , I have observed this phenomenon. That is a beauty , Jim. I will say that the Rhopalostylus Baueri are pretty fast . I brought a juvenile home from @DoomsDave and this Cheesemania is gonna be a bigun’ ! Yours will probably outdo the parent palm . I don’t know if there is any advantage of climate acclimation but the volunteers seem to sprout and grow very well. Harry

Ever notice how volunteer palm seedlings grow super fast sometimes. This Rhopalostylis baueri volunteer sprouted less than a year ago at the base of an Archontophoenix in full shade and you can almost see it growing in real time. It’s 2 1/2 feet tall (76 centimeters). The one in the last photo sprouted in full all day sun about the same time. Never a burnt leaf no matter how hot it gets. Not even my 20 year old adults will tolerate direct sun here. There are ten year old A. cunnnghamiana volunteers taller than twenty year old ones that were planted as five gallon plants. Anyone else notice this kind of growth with volunteers allowed to grow where they sprouted? First three pics are same palm. Last one is the full sun one.

Seasol or seaweed extract for vitamin b stress relief. Which I think some of world could use some right now!

Whoa @Jim in Los Altos ibthought I was hallucinating a bit! That’s astounding!

I’ve got a few that I’d like to dig and move. None are trunking; leaves are 6-8 feet long. Anyone have any thoughts? @Jim in Los Altos?

Dug a Hedyscepe and stuck in a 15 gallon pot, big drink, in the shade. @happypalms what’s your fave transplant fert? @Harry’s Palms said you had a recommendation.

Thanks guys. I just have no idea what else could have caused this. We haven’t had rain since they were installed. They’re also made out of aluminum, and while I realize that can too corrode, I don’t think it’s normal that this happened already. The roofer said he will fix the spot and report to the manufacturer.

I just happened upon this article published this past April, documenting the rediscovery of a species of Ravenea not definitively documented since its original description in 1927. The species is Ravenea latisecta, and there have been a few possible sightings in the ensuing 99 years, although apparently virtually all of these were misidentified, most turning out to be R. robustior or R. madagascariensis,. According to the article, there are no documented specimens in cultivation. So this is apparently quite a find and gives some hope for other species that have been "hiding" while presumed extinct. You can download the article from ResearchGate here.

I was walking by my Dioon mejiae which is flushing and still has soft leaflets and noticed a couple of damaged leaflets. I looked more closely and spotted a grasshopper on another leaf. I successfully grabbed the grasshopper and could see it had already eaten a leaflet on that leaf. Grasshoppers seem to like my Dioon flushes and my Encephalartos inopinus. It really bugs me when I find these grasshoppers on my plants. What bugs you?

Central Texas earlier this week:) don’t hate me but I’m too lazy to add all the individual captions haha . Pics range from my friend Matthew’s personal collection in San Marcos to areas around San Antonio. I even found a non disturbed area of Spanish moss with cactus kinda cool to see those species interact together.

The I-drive coconut was removed in Mar or April. Arborist on FB page said he was the one who removed it and added it never had a chance long term. Lol, had been there over 15 years. Disappointing. I grabbed these at the Doubletree Sea World a few weeks ago. Looking good.

Hellow SteveTheGator (and all) I may or may not get any reply to this however -- Just here to say I am the one who WROTE that research at https://www.xeri.com/Moapa/wf-hr-part1.htm and the 6 parts of the paper. As well as collected the Verbal memories (Testimonies) of the Native local Moapa Elders who had stories of their grandparents who had always remembered the Palms long before the Mormon Settlers came to the region. There are hidden groves very remote as well that They knew about (and i knew about) but never revealed Because of fear they would also be wiped out. I lived in the area in 1979 and family has been in the area since that time nearby. Also distant relatives were responsible for the anachronistic stories crediting a White man (Mendis Cooper) for palm introduction. (but he actually only planted the large trees in front of his home on Cooper street 40 miles distant which still stand to this day) A Moapa Elder put her hands on me and prayed in her Uto-Aztecan language at one of the main groves - before they bulldozed nearly 25,000 trees back in the 1990s. The Plummer Resort there at the time had a Welcome card which stated: The Palms are native and have always been here according to the local Indians (Moapa) He refused to sell to the Nature Conservancy. They hounded the man for years but he refused. I was with my father and two others on a hill overlooking the Moapa Warm Springs when the full glory of a minimum of 25,000 palms graced the area. We were attempting to count the area by blocking off the heads in our line of vision one square at a time when we saw a person on the LOCKED Wildlife area portion where NV fish and game had a small relatively NEW refuge they had purchased from a local resident (It abutted the Plummer resort) They had an ugly tall cyclone fence around the area topped with barbed wire. The "Dace" (Coriaceae) refuge did not yet exist. It was understaffed and there were very tall dead dry weeds all over the refuge portion. The Plummer resort was pristine and kept in beautiful perfect shape. The skirts were kept pretty High -- like 10 feet or higher on the 90 foot + old palms. We (all four of us (two are now dead) saw a man on the refuge side light a cigarette. He did not see us. We saw a fire begin. We didn't stick around but we "assumed" he would take care of it. We heard the next day: the entire area burned. Even a fire truck was destroyed. The resort was utterly destroyed. Plummer sold to the Nature conservancy after that (was my understanding) and they in turn - turned it over to the newly forming Moapa Coriaceae refuge under NV fish and game. Despite a mammilian wildlife Biologist finding Western Yellow bellied Bats in the Palm skirts (which is their preferred habitat) -- they used very cursory observations by James Cornett from years earlier (from Palm Springs) to condemn the Palms as nuisance plants and as a threat to the endemic fish. (which has never been demonstrated.) The people who like to say the palms were brought in by Spaniards fail to explain the existence of WHOLE palmate Fossil leaves (I've personally seen some over 5 feet across) and fossilized roots which show that costapalmate Palms have existed from As far north as Wyoming to the Southern US borders. I personally believe there is also no such thing as a Filibusta (cross or hybrid palm between the two varieties filifera and robusta) since the large chaffy perianths would preclude pollen from another tree from pollenating BEFORE it self pollinated. So I think it's a very ancient very stable Genus... and any outlier unstable variations split off eons ago to become accoelorraphe, serenoa, brahea etc possibly? Some of which seem less genetically Stable /prone to branching into new species over the previous eons. Another clue to it's ancient roots... Since Phoenix seems to be the only induplicate pinnate leaf form (and is related being a Coryphoideae itself) and since there was a fossil of an induplicate pinnate (Phoenix) leaf form from Texas Fossil beds.... I would wonder if Washingtonia (being possibly 50 million years old?) might not be the proto-palm of all palms. (there are scan tropical palms in the fossil records) And Ice age movements pushing the palms southward appears to support the idea that in its disjunct populations scattered all over high desert and desert areas where they either don't flood but also have access to moisture and protection argues for it as a Relict genus. ALL of the Native Elders who testified have since died. Irene Benn, Juanita Kinlichinie, Evelynn Samalar etc. But they said their grandparents said "The palms have always been here" and they remembered using it for food during famines. It was very hard (the seeds) So hard that rodents wouldn't even eat them. I have seen some of the manifests of the nearby Lost City archaeological digs from the early part of 1900s when (a distant relative) acted as an amateur but very important preserver of the archaeology of that 30 mile long ancient inhabited area. Numerous times Small reddish ovoid unknown "seeds" were described from old Neotoma middens dating back before white man arrived. The Spanish by the way (the Spanish trail is still visible in portions of the Great Mesa nearby) passed at least 10 miles south of the area where the palms are hidden down in a valley. Fremont also went through the area and completely missed the Warm Springs staying on the Spanish Trail. Early Settlers logs and diarys / journals complain about the palms cutting them and being a nuisance so they burned or chopped them down whenever they could.... and instead Brought Whips of Cottonwood from Utah and started planting them for shade. Areas that (according to settlers along the muddy river which used to have palms remained palm free when ever Farmers were in the area.) I was actually invited to a meeting of the Moapa Tribe and the Chairperson approved my writing. However at the same time, the newly founded Moapa Dace refuge was hiring Moapa men to operate bulldozers and they quickly started piling up thousands of bulldozed BURNED Palms (immediately following the fire) Never mind that these palms are very resistant to dying from Fire. They would have all likely survived. So the Groves one sees in the area today look like a tiny remnant of what it used to be. It was shocking actually. The Nevada Archaeo-Nevada society voted 100% of it's membership to support what I had written and it included some of the rangers at the Valley of Fire State Park. The Lake Mead National Recreation area got a hard bound copy of all 6 chapters of my report. They never once responded. They did appear (to me) to WAIT until the Elders at the Moapa tribe had died before they started removing the palms aggressively from LMNRA. Meanwhile they surround all their ranger homes, the visitors center near Bullhead City and Headquarters with Phoenix Dactylifera or robusta. The Las Vegas Life magazine did a full several page write up about the entire thing years ago. There is a copy of the report (in a binder) at the local Overton Library. I did plant community comparisons, Climate comparisons, Ethnographical comparisons (the Moapa Southern Paiute are Uto-Aztecan and therefore cousins of the Cahuilla, the Chemehuevi, The Hopi, The Ute, Goshiute, Paiute, and the Wahirio and the Tohono O'odham (papago) and Pima (Tohono A'kimel) The Tohono, Cahuilla, Wahirio, all used palms. The Cahuilla in Palm Springs being the most well known. By the time the Moapa were encountered by White Mormon settlers they had undergone a couple hundred years of constant MOURNING.... Why? Because the Navajo (Dine' - Athebascan like the Apache) had been taking women and children as slaves and taking them south to sell to the Spanish in New Mexico for profit. So by the time the White settlers got to the area the last Tribal Historian (a verbal history) named Peg-leg Joe tried his best to get someone to record his words before they died forever. He unfortunately died and no one ever recorded his words. Unlike Father Patencio of the Palm Springs Cahuilla who recorded that the First Cahuilla stretched out his arms and became a PALM TREE..... The Moapa would have definitely met and intermingled with the Cahuilla at one time. Yet this still does not explain the presence of Fossil Palm leaves and fossil Palm roots. .... and the ONLY Extant palms are Washingtonia filfera. There are even local petroglyphs (in my writing) found in the Valley of Fire on Atl Atl rock (note: They even use an ATL ATL in the petroglyphs -- a hunting instrument which is found among the Aztec far to the south! -- which also implies contact in addition to the language roots) and some of the Petroglyphs are suspiciously like Palms with the Fruiting spadices pictured. I was told by the Moapa Elders that the Famine food they were told about was called "chum" by the grandparents and that they also used the leaves to make sweatlodges. They said they had to soak the seed a long time before they could smash it into a gruel. I found deep Mortar beds (with pictures) near several groves. In addition to this... the palms in front of Mendis Cooper's house (the White man from the early 1900s credited with planting palms by the LMNRA and Wildlife people who ignore everything that was written --most likely because I do not have a DEGREE or PEDIGREE.... ???) are not even close to the height that the tallest palms in Moapa used to be -- before they bulldozed them making certain that would never ever be an issue again. Okay. This will probably get removed by moderation for being too long. Sorry -- if so. I no longer have any fight in me. Links to all Reports: Articles about the Moapa Palms and Related articles: the 100 PAGE FULL REPORT HERE [ please note: The full report does not include recently discovered information regarding the Bats or Counts ] Links to all Reports: Articles about the Moapa Palms and Related articles: 11 QUICK CONDENSED FACTS may be found HERE. A FIVE PAGE INTRODUCTION is HERE. A MORE in depth EIGHT PAGE INTRODUCTION is HERE. A TEN PAGE PREFACE TO THE FULL REPORT is HERE. the 100 PAGE FULL REPORT HERE Rebuttals to existing Articles re: W. filifera: | GLOBAL WARMING, NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR PALMS SPREAD! | | W.FILIFERA: EVIDENCE POINTS TO A RELICT SPECIES!' | ==================== As seen below in the photo screen grab (before it disappeared) I noticed long ago that someone (not me) had put my reports on Wikipedia as references. (I did not do that) (I have no idea who did) However I did Notice that a few months ago ALL REFERNCES to the above were removed. No explanation. Most likely because I have zero Pedigree. so It's simply very "unscientific" ---- I guess, how presumptuous of me to assume it could be helpful? I or my family have either lived in the area of Overton (have business there) since 1979 - I did climate comparisons for many years. You are correct in that it is hotter than Vegas (It's also almost 800 feet lower in elevation) It is zone 9a in places (Echo Bay is 9b) and Logandale (Same valley) is probably somewhere between 8b and 9a) -temps of 120 F are common but 115 is common. It's not as hot as Yuma (10a) or Bullhead city 10a -- but those are even lower elevation. I have never heard of temps at 0 degrees. But Logandale (the cold sink of the area) has been as low as 12 or 14 degrees in short snaps Going back to 1939 when they started recording such things.... It has never been below 8 degrees f. But that was probably in a cold sink for a limited time and in LoganDale. Either way there is an enormous Orange Tree which has been in Logandale (and Washingtonia Palms) which have never suffered frost bite since 1979. So while I don't know where the 0 degree info may come from - all I can say is, since 1979 I've never heard of anything that low. I have seen it get into the upper teens briefly... but as a rule 19 degrees would be the lowest for the areas in 9a (30-35 for a lowest low range - is considered 9a)

We don’t muck around down under, we build em tough like us Aussies. Go Big or go home they say! 🪴 Richard

Joey’s are a specialty at @happypalms ! If they don’t make it , it was not meant to be. Harry

If you own the property you live on, then plant it although they do get big, it will take more than a lifetime before it becomes a problem. Or you could donate your tree to a botanical garden in your area and that way it will live on, and be for everyone to share such a beautiful tree.

Two is to many, my therapist said you never have two many palms, now iam confused @Harry’s Palms why do I listen too a therapist when there’s more good advice on palmtalk the biggest palm nut can find. That’s it iam canceling my next appointment and seeking palm nut guidance instead! Richard who lives in a palm jungle seeking another therapist 🤣

Yeah, I bought them from bellamytrees.com about 2 years ago. I don't think they sell them anymore. They do seem pretty adaptable. Mine have done well indoors although they do appreciate a lot of water. I want to plant them outside eventually but I don't know if I have enough space. Here's the larger of the two plants I have. The leaves are about a foot long and deeply corrugated and spiny. Attractive bark as well, it's light brown with papery reddish bronze strips.

Ravenea palms are so diverse and some only occurred in very limited areas like remote mountains . So many of them are threatened or endangered . There is a great video on the IPS main site about “The Lost Palm on Comoros . Worth the watch . Ravenea Moorei. Harry

They really oughta stop planting Queens in SA. I hate seeing them die.

😂 Not sure which would be worse.. That experience, or being randomly smacked in the face by them while driving w/ the window down.

I’ve got some Veitchia arecina, the oldest being about 12 years old and is way overhead. However, it’s never flowered. Then I have another one that is about eight years old and has decided to flower like crazy. It’s pretty cool because the flowers are right at eye level.

Dioon edule I got from @PalmBossTampa

Calyptrocalyx yummutumune! Faired well in winter for a tropical grown palm and planted late summer, no acclimatisation for this one, straight in the ground from the pacsoa showroom! Dont be fooled by this Calyptrocalyx it’s cool tolerant!

Female chamaedorea elegans!

Why are foxtails so popular overseas, I see a lot of growers who bend over backwards to have one in there garden. In Australia they are a landscapers favourite, chain stores sell them like they are going out of fashion. Yet to a palm collecting palm nut in Australia they hardly get a second look. I have them in my garden but they don’t wow me like other palms do. Yes they are bullet proof, take a beating in sunlight, tolerance of a lot of dry conditions and they grow in some of the rockiest soil around. Cold frosty weather seems to be there only enemy. They are becoming a bit of weed in the Northern Territory around the Darwin area, with city councils asking people not to plant them as they grow so well in the heat up north. So what’s the beauty and challenge a lot of overseas growers find in them!

@Merlyn I thought it looked like a Horidus as well! We’re not that far off though. I got an expert ID on it, turns out it is an Encephalartos Trispinosus, a species very similar to Horidus. Now I just need to get it healthy again to see if I got the blue or green variant. The base of the leaflets looks like it could have a slight blue colour.

Wodyetia is the second most popular palm we sell at the nursery where I work in Venice FL, behind Adonidia merrilii. We sell a lot of Dypsis lutescens and Hyophorbe too both bottles and spindles. Not much else in stock besides fishtails, coconuts, cat palms, lady palms etc. I was excited to recently get Alexander palms too. When I began working there 11 years ago we had some cool stuff like Dypsis Cabadae and Phoenix loureirii. But we have a new guy ordering and he doesn’t seem to want to go beyond the usual suspects. Speaking of beer I’m from Queensland and I sure could use a slab of 4X. Meanwhile it’s Landshark…and very rarely a tinny of Fosters ale, the green can. 🍻churrs mate 🦘

This morning brought in a much welcome marine layer of coolness. The flowers on our Sabal are quite abundant and fruit on our Butia Oderata, silver. The fruit will disappear as it ripens as the squirrels wait for just the right time . They hop from a neighboring Brahea Edulis , quite interesting to watch! Harry Not sure , but I think this is Sabal Palmetto , although someone told me it may be Riverside. Either way , I don’t think I’ve seen this much inflorescence on this palm before. Silver Butia Oderata (sold as Bonneti) . Behind it is a Brahea Edulis that is barely visible . The squirrels tend to go from tree to tree. The fruit will be a treat for them. In all the years I’ve had this , and it produces fruit every year, I’ve only had one volunteer! No fruit on the ground , but copious amounts from the Brahea , untouched. Squirrels like what they like and the Apricot sweetness of the Butia is candy.

August 14th update It’s been extremely hot and humid, the nights have almost never dipped below 74f for months now.

Another bp x pjc

A line up of today's potential favorite but I just couldn't decide. Encephalartos blue arenarius, Encephalartos inopinus and Cycas multifrondis.

Wodhyethia has become a victim of its own success. Imagine if it was discovered today - a large, landscape suitable palm with a crownshaft, self cleaning and large very full and plumose fronds. You can understand the attraction beyond the palm enthusiast community. I have friends and family that go up to the tropics and subtropics and have showed me photos of Foxtail palms being wowed by them and asking what they are. Objectively they are a beautiful species when well grown and they are adaptable to a range of soil conditions and even some warm temperate regions. I’m right on the limit of where they will grow and there’s less than a handful of long term survivors that I know of (none look good), yet it doesn’t stop them being sold in the 1000s here and people still lap them up.

some people talk about the queen palms the same way you describe the ubiquitous foxtail in Australia.....what makes foxtails so popular (at lease in florida)is they are bulletproof. foxtails resemble royal palms but do not get as large, which is a big factor for most homeowners with limited space.

Formerly Peckerwood Garden and Yuccado Nursery. Located in Pine Island, Texas. Brahea dulcis Sabal uresana Brahea berlandieri, Sabal uresana,Nolina nelsonii Serenoa repens Dioon edule, Nolina nelsonii Sabal causiarum Agave ‘Miquihuana Silver’ Brahea berlandieri Brahea berlandieri Brahea moorei Brahea dulcis Agave victoriae-reginae Yucca linearifolia Sabal uresana Nannorhops ritchiana

Some observations from around Orlando; Lots of Foxtails growing back, quite a few took awhile . But a majority of thinner younger specimens that were planted just 1-2 years ago perished I've noticed more Bottle Palms recovering than Spindles I'm shocked at how many Coconuts are recovering, in the past they have been killed at higher temps Most Adonidia have perished (not surprising) but I see some that are growing back Most Arecas had tall stems killed but I see some sprouting back, but suckers regrowing good I haven't seen any Ptychosperma elegans growing back but for some reason they weren't widely planted around like Adonidia Royals are growing back great, only deaths I have seen were young juvenile specimens less than 6-7ft I'm going to be at the Landscape Show next week at the convention center on I-Drive. Curious to see how the tropical palms down there fared; big Royals at hotel by Sea World, big Royals at convention center entrance, all the Bottles and Adonidia planted by the CC, the big Coconut at that one restaurant. I can see a couple Coconuts at Volcano Bay from I-4 growing back.

Glad this thread is still going strong all these years later. This last freeze has dampened some spirits, but we got hit like this before and bounced back.

Ouch sorry to hear!!

The wind heavily exacerbated the damage. This was also an odd freeze because the cold came more west to east than the more typical north to south or northwest to southeast. As such, the immediate gulf coast didn't experience much of an event since the cold air was modified by the warm gulf water. Further east, even very protected microclimates reached 25F-27F. An urban area with a lake to the west could typically stay 25F-26F, with some barrier islands on the east side of the state stopping the slide at 27F. Open areas had 40mph winds and temperatures in the low 20s. Some cold pockets reached the high teens. I didn't have more Coconuts surviving than Chambeyronia on my Next Big Freeze Bingo Card. We live and learn... I guess

We had some survive here at Leu, I will get some pics.

Similar to @flplantguy, I'm west of US-27, so I consider the location West Central FL. Here on the ranch, the only survivor is a Chambeyronia oliviformis (syn. Kentiopsis oliviformis). The Houailou held on for dear life for a while, but eventually gave up the ghost. The Chambeyronia macrocarpa and the Watermelon variety died about 2 months after the cold from their injuries. There may be some survivors in the city gardens, but we'll see as my schedule permits. My guess is that there are probably some survivors on the east and southeast sides of large lakes in Orlando. A few of those locales stayed at or above that magical 26F mark where stuff like these tends to skate by with some damage.

Many flowers over the years. First time I’ve seen seeds. Will see if they turn out viable. 20’ish years old from a 20 gallon. Dana Point, CA

You may already know this , they stay green even when ready to sow. It looks like you will be sowing seeds soon . Harry

A natural JxS hybrid I grew from seed. Grows about 4 times as fast as its standard Jubaea brethren. I had 2 of these hybrids come up from a batch of seeds I collected from the 1 blue Jubaea at mission beach. Gotta love it's very upright growth pattern when planted in close quarters.🌴 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Bp x pjc hitting its stride.

My JxS from Patrick is slow but steady here in North Florida Coastal Panhandle. We had an unheard of 5 inches of snow that stayed on the ground for 3 days. This palm never flinched.

update, the(BxJ)xJ went into the ground in 2024(?) before milton hit. Its doing well and just starting to put out longer leaves and more of them each year. It has had Little to no feeding and a sparing use of water in the area. Its a tad over 6' tall now. I like the symmetry of the leaves compared with my BxJ. The even spacing of the leaflets reminds me a little of my cuban copernicias.