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Acquired from Floribunda and planted January 2019, this palm is looking really lovely at the moment. It has always been a very spiny thing, but yesterday I did a double take -- it's as smooth as a fine suede jacket! And such color! No evidence of the "rubra" (red) for which it is named, but beautiful all the same. Still young, and has only a few spines on one side of the trunk. I'm interested to see yours -- please share photos if you are growing this species.3 points
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Yeah, the rousselii produces viable seed. Last year, probably 5-6000. Its crazy. But germination is really slow and sporadic, starting almost a year after harvesting. And the eophyll is like 1/2" long. I have some seedlings doing well and a bag in my germination box with a few thousand seed.2 points
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Wow! Awesome idea to have all 3 to compare differences. The A rousellii crownshaft is eye catching! Has it produced viable seed? Nice Tahina photobomb too!2 points
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Walt's wife just posted on the main forum on an Elaeis guineensis post that he passed away in June 2025. I don't know if she is aware of this subforum so figured I would post here. I never met Walt, however, have been following his posts on his garden since approximately 2003. He was one of the first contributors who regularly posted photos in posts, which I always appreciated because I lived in Seattle, WA at the time and loved seeing palm photos. It was fascinating learning about the difference between USDA zones in CA and FL because of him, as he would "famously" grow coconuts in USDA zone 9b! He also would share photos of his trees that would recover from seasonal frosts. Anyways, his posts will be missed!2 points
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Hello Cathy, Condolences on Walt's passing. The forum members posted a memorial thread for him here: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/93162-rip-walt-in-lake-placid/2 points
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Three proven winners in ease of growing and exotic ornamental look a must have! Richard2 points
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A gift from a palm talk member @Harry’s Palms sent me some decipens seeds. They have germinated quite well and apparently they came from a well know palm growers collection. Which makes them even more special to me. I put some seeds in and the rest got disturbed to a few other fellow palm talk members in Australia. And it seems none of there ones have germinated yet, so if those couple of growers need a lesson on germinater palm seeds iam running a online course just for those couple of members 🤣 so they can’t blame the seeds! But jokes aside thank you Harry for the lovely gift of seeds, they have become rather special now! Richard2 points
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Now all I have to do is convince you to climb up that ladder and get those Hedyscepe seeds 🤣 Richard2 points
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Once again thank you for such a lovely gift. It’s a nice thing having a story with a plant, to the general public they would have no idea about the growers background or where they came from. But for people in the plant world it’s recognition of a grower and a great remembrance of a great grower or gardener. A great legacy to have Richard2 points
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These are awesome looking. Used to be my holy grail palm. but South Florida was not k8nd to these. Not sure why more people don’t grow these… maybe those spines when young. I picked up a couple of babies from Floribunda a few years back. At first they grew like crazy, then (like so many tropicals) when the summer nighttime heat really picked up, they got miserable. They went back and forth like this for a couple of years, then I decided to it was cruel and unusual punishment. They looked terrible. I took the loss. They kind of have thin, soft leaflets, like teddies, or a R rivularis.2 points
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I just got back from a brief road trip to Bahia de Los Angeles to see the northernmost red mangroves on an island in the Gulf of California! It is a tiny coastal village in the middle of nowhere with no cell service and only satellite internet. Nevertheless, I stumbled upon some incredibly rare palms in a random garden! Anyone know any information about this garden? I tried knocking on the doors nearby but nobody was home, but there was a house pipe with wet ground beneath it so it looks like someone is tending to these palms. Click here if you want to see ALL the photos from the road trip First is the trip's purpose: the colony of red mangroves with the second pic being the particular northernmost mangrove in the colony. I'm guessing palms are Medemia argun, Bismarckia nobilis, Copernicia baileyana, Hyphaene coriacea, Cocos nucifera (only one in the village), Sabal riverside, Brahea armata (native), and Chamaerops humilis var. cerifera.2 points
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That is beautiful, and a palm you don’t encounter much on this forum or, come to think of it, in gardens either. Tim2 points
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Here are a couple of pics from the garden and the parent to your babies! Harry One of two that produce copious amounts of fruit . This is the smaller one of the two. A Ceroxyline ( spelling?) at the Sullivan garden. Hedyscape that is doing quite well in Ventura at their apartment building by Ventura College. Looking up at the SECOND STORY of the building ( to give scale).2 points
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The palm didn’t miss a beat with the move… Seems equally happy in its new location. Both the old and new locations see a lot of sun (the new location slightly more sun than the old). I haven’t tried it in either of my two “worst of the worst” spots for sun, but it seems fairly sun tolerant to me (within reason). Likely similar to lutescens in that regard, but more cold tolerant (as in fewer “fried” looking fronds coming out of winter). Here’s a snap I just took at 9:30am this morning…2 points
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I have all three Acanthophoenix growing in my San Diego garden and all grow perfectly. My A rubra are grown from seed off a tree in San Diego (Dennis Willoughby's garden). The only reason not to grow these I could think of is the spines, but in my opinion they are much less lethal than Phoenix roebellinii or canariensis which are all over the place. Photos coming...1 point
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**Harvested February 2026** These seeds are from a wild specimen near Weeki Wachee Springs. Me and my boys were fortunate enough to stumble across this palm during a hike back in 2018 and have harvested seed each year since. They're not as into it now as they were when they were little (I get it, extracurricular HS activities can have that effect), so I've decided to part with most of this years seed harvest. The variegated yields vary each season, but never dissapointing. Between palmtalk, word of mouth, social media, and ebay, hundreds of variegated offspring from this tree have been shipped out each year. FULL SUN IS A MUST and paitence is a big key too, some specimens show variegation as soon as the first leaf emerges from the dirt. Others are green as can be for the first two years, then one day you look and the newest leaf emerging with every leaf that follows is variegated...deep regret then sets in when you think about all the 'green' ones that were culled too early Cleaned, Float Tested, and Ready to Sow Minimum order of: 50/$45 or 100/$75 , 250/$150 , 500/$250 Shipping an additional $6 for USPS Ground Advantage (w/ Tracking) Venmo, CashApp, credit cards or debit cards (via square) accepted PM if interested1 point
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ALL AVAILABLE SEEDS HAVE BEEN SOLD!! Thank you for looking!!!1 point
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Here’s a picture of Sabal palmetto along the St. John’s River in central florida. Roots can grow in air and in standing water. The river edges get flooded from each hurricane and thats what probably eroded away the shoreline overtime. I thought this picture clearly shows how resilient and impressive this species is.1 point
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Thanks Richard. Maybe makes more sense how it’s been able to handle Melbourne’s heat for a long period. I think I might’ve only seen one other G schottiana up close before and having a look back at my photo it does look close-ish, certainly fronds, leaflets, growth structure and leaf bases. I suspect this one is more self cleaning because of a subtropical climate. Hope the owner of this G schottiana doesn’t mind me posting - it’s a beauty.1 point
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So these coconuts were planted in October 25 gallon And I noticed something interesting today we’ve been doing a liquid fertilizer by a company and Lesco 13-3-13 Palm and tropical And we just got into this warm spurt with the rain last week Weeks ago they started doing the March trimming and I noticed that the trunks on these are now growing so quickly that they’re cracking the old boots and they’re on pace to be a 16 to 18 diamater trunks Nothing like the Maypan, which looks fantastic I was just curious if anyone same progress after the period of cold that we had in west Palm beach1 point
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@Phoenikakias, here’s my Rubrum in SoCal. It was planted out 4yrs ago as a 20G from Bluebell and had 4 lines of trunk. Maybe 5ft total height. It’s grown substantially and rings are getting nice and wide. Always produces a super unique brown crown. It’s very hard to photo due to the Triangle behind it so I took a few. Pritchardia is growing out of a shock phase. -dale Bret, I think you’ve got the best looking one in SoCal. Hardly ever see these in gardens. Impossible to capture the beauty of the Florida grown plants here but yours looks how it’s supposed to look. 👍🏻1 point
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Here are some of mine. They all look remarkably decent for coming out of winter, though the winter was pretty warm. If I get the order here correct, the first one is the standard form, seed collected from Hawaii, probably seven years ago. The second one is var rubrum, which is really beginning to look pretty darn nice. It’s about head high. The last one is a small conjugatum/furfuraceum which is slower than slow, but pretty darn tough too. Never cold spots. Definitely seems to be the most attractive of an already attractive genus when it gets bigger. Beautiful palms, especially in the tropics.1 point
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