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Maybe that's in Lira. 🇮🇹

I think that’s why I have finished it yet. Grand opening not sure 🤔 but you better get your plane ticket ready. First ten customers get a free cold hardy lanonia dasyantha, and a sausage sandwich 🥪

My friend Tuki from Rapa Nui shared some photos of his island and its palm trees with me. He explained that the Cocos nucifera palm trees were brought to the island from French Polynesia (Tahiti).

Some of my favorites that have no problem with desert extremes include Bismarckia, Brahea, Coccothrinax, Copernicia,, Hemithrinax, Pseudophoenix, and Sabals. Unfortunately, most are slow growers, and somewhat difficult to locate, especially in larger sizes, on the west coast. aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Lanonia yunnanensis is a new species being described this year. It is thought to be as hardy as L. dasyantha and can tolerate temperatures as low as 0C/32F. This is the first time this elegant palm with slightly mottled leaves has been offered for sale. 3 dollars per seed. Shipping cost depends on the number of seeds and destination.

Hello! I was just wondering if anyone had backyard nurseries in San Diego, Los Angeles, Palm Springs area and if they were selling any palms! I just bought a house in El Centro, CA, and would like to start collecting plants to plant out in the fall!

Iguanura Wallichiana

Dypsis rivularis new leaf looking pretty good!

The zonepushing corner today...I think things grow faster when you're not there! Everything has just grown itself in the past few months apart from the handful of days of winter protection. Hope the rain keeps getting delivered...no watering needed at all in 2026 so far. Liccuala fordiana is really looking like a Licuala Direct seeded alex getting big Lytocaryum hoehnei leaves are nearly doubling in size!

Itaya today, with Pinanga looking smart…

In regard to the NSB coconuts, were you referring to the one outside of the Flagler Tavern? https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/91381-new-smyrna-beach-coconut-and-other-exotics/

Congratulations! I know you've been in need of some land for so long! There were some people in Arizona on YouTube growing out fruit forests in the extreme heat. They were able to grow all kinds of cool things. Lots of wood chips and established canopy and you might be surprised what you can pull off.

I love Australia 🇦🇺

Some majesty palms in McAllen shoved up against the front .

My understanding is there are two more 2010 surviving coconuts in Volusia County. One in NSB in front of a store right next to the beach. Any word on that one? The other was a very well sited coconut at a condo in Daytona Beach. Don’t recall where it was exactly.

At this point you have to hope for a tropical system to get rain. Then it just floods.

Your borhidiana hybrids that i bought from you have germinated like crazy!

Helpful but as Kyle observed, they do get frost in El Centro. Those 2 to 3 degrees F lower in December and January are averages. It is the lowest lows and their duration, as well as the duration of the highs that determine survival of sensitive plants at the margin. Good info all the same Jim.

Will do! It turns out the plant needed a few weeks to gets its groove back. Now it's going.

Here are the averages for each city.

It is beautiful, no matter how you spell it! Thanks for posting Alberto.

Brahea Clara

Bismarkia and White Triangle

Yours is a Zamia vazquezii 😁 the leaflets give it away

Iam onto it for you Nico, dont panic!

@Austinpalm I think I was able to replicate the login that was failing. The logon screen was a WordPress login and wouldn't be our IPS account credentials. This is probably the screen you're referring to: I did find a way to have some success. Try this and let me know if it works. Type a year in the Search textbox and press Enter. The page will spin for a little bit and then bring up some search results. If you want to keep the results up, right-click an archived journal link and select Open link in new tab. On the tab that opens, you should be able to read or download the issue. Hope this works for you.

Becarriopheonix handles the desert, many folks here in AZ have Royal palms they thrive in heat.

There are a few palms that can handle the inland temps that El Centro has . Perhaps some of the inland folks can help out. Congratulations on the house! Harry

It's a blank slate!

I see green hopefully it pulls through somehow. For reference here is a large coconut in port Isabel Tx zone 10A that survived like 23° in 2021 .

Thank you, @RiverCityRichard . Hoping this one pulls through yet another devastating cold front.

Here’s that coconut today. Slight bit of green showing in the center, so there is a chance.

This recent freeze did great damage to anything really tropical , but.....many Coconut palms in the area are showing re-growth . I would say , about 40-50% have emerging growth as of now . Location , location , location . It was a windy freeze , and shelter made a huge difference in outcomes . This area is generally colder going west of the beach , and going northward ,( but to a lesser degree ). East of I95 , and particularly east of Clyde Morris Blvd. , is the warmest . The beachside received the same windy penetration as the rest of town in this event . Older area of town often have nice Oak canopies , and hedges etc . Tropicals benefit from this . Long term large Cocos will never be a routine thing here , but can survive here and there for periods between Super Freezes . I've lived here for a very long time . This freeze was a biggie , but.. '62 , '83 , '85 ,( particularly 1985) , were much worse . 1985 was scorched Earth . I am talking about palms here . Other tropicals have mixed results , and some surprises , both good and bad , unexpected .

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Not that slow, but I haven’t grown hardy MAPU before only dasyanthas. And they are quite fast growing varieties.

Iam already thinking of building another one. Palm growing n ver ends, once your hooked it’s an addiction palms. It is fun and very rewarding, if you choose the right plants!

Iam finally getting back to the greenhouse, with a change in the season it’s time to get on with the property projects. So time to get the welder out put it to good use. So far total cost 2 rolls of welding wire and labour the rest of the materials from leftovers at work, the boss even gave me the two roll of shade cloth. About time as well after 24 years of working for them! My sister works for a trucking company so the plastic pallets were freighted up from Sydney. Not what you know but who you know in the palm growing game!

Drove by this yesterday, didn’t stop for a photo but it’s close enough to A1A I was able to see it appears completely toast after the freeze. I looked for green but didn’t see any from my vantage point. There are multiple other coconuts at houses along A1A in the Daytona beach shores area in the same condition.

Amazing to get such great germination with a rare and exciting palm like this.

They look familiar, there super tough just add water, and if your lucky from seed I did manage to get a variegated one. They love shade and don’t mind a little morning sun. I have about 500 in pots and so many in the ground, I have worked them out and are easy to grow. And there are a few different varieties available as well.

Great thread bump! Habitat pics are always good to see on the forum and it’s really useful to understand the climate of the native habitat of palms. I think this explains a lot. L dasyantha are a lot tougher than they look. I’ve never had a spot on mine even down to around -1.5C/29F, and we get relatively long, cool winters with around 10 frosts per year on average. Here my 2 planted up the back of the garden in a cool South facing position. Slow growing for me but the bigger one is starting to put out its character fronds which is exciting.

I’ve not long come back from a visit to North Vietnam where is saw this species in habitat on Tam Dao. I assumed it was a Licuala initially, it wasn’t until I read Andrew Henderson’s book I realised it wasn’t. This one was a 1300m and it was a cold day at around 11c in mid November.

Thank you so much for your positive feedback！The seeds of L. yunnanensis have sold out for this year.

Just received my L yannanensis seeds from Charway. Well shipped/packed, no floaters, very happy. Great communication and quick shipping as well. Will update here about germination... Matt

Fresh Lanonia dasyantha seeds are available too. 1 dollar for each seed. The degree of leaf mottling in this species is affected by factors such as light and fertilizer. The leaves shown in the figures have a relatively good degree of mottling. Please note that not all leaves are guaranteed to look like this.

My friend collected. He has a nursery garden in Sino-Vietnamese border area.

@D Palmi hope some start dropping there are hundreds of them. Multiple stalls filled with seeds. I hope I do get some viable ones, time will tell. I would assume by fruit you mean the outer shell and the seed would be inside?

Usually when they drop. Peel off any fruit, squeeze. If they collapse, no embryo, discard. Place in water, wait 20 minutes and discard if float. If they pass these test, probably viable.

After growing to full size seeds,I think mine looked shiny green just like yours for about 3 months before they started changing color. aztropic Mesa, Arizona