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Definitely. The city government orders these from Jungle Music. The employees working at Hollis have told me this variety is the most resilient to cold out of all of the various species that they've ordered. We have Archontophoenix cunninghamiana, alexandrae, and I think a few maxima sprinkled into some spots. My thought was that it would generate enough interest for genetic testing amongst the scientific community, but to my knowledge, that hasn't happened. It would be really interesting to have genetic testing done to verify or refute some of our theories as to the origins.

Hi Tim, here are couple shots of mine Purpurea hybrids. You’ll see purplish crown shafts with silver undersides of leaves but missing ramenta. I have 3 with varying degrees of purple. And I’ve noticed during summer months when a new leaf base falls off it’s not as vibrant as in spring when it’s cooler.

As has been mentioned, A ‘Teracarpa’ isn’t a thing in Aus. Have seen this pop up occasionally on Palmtalk and always been curious what the origin was - good info above. My gut feel is it is probably a hybrid. It seems to have traits of A cunninghamiana and A alexandrae just from the photos above, but I’d be interested if anyone has close ups of any details. Do they have ramenta? Silver or green abaxial surface of leaflets? Crownshaft and trunk covered in scales? A cunninghamiana x A alexandrae and the reverse cross both generally produce robust specimens from what I’ve seen in Aus. They tend to lean slightly towards A alexandrae but with brown scales on the crownshaft and occasionally ramenta like A cunninghamiana which might be similar to these.

I’ve seen A cunninghamiana, A alexandrae, A tuckeri and A maxima all throw coloured new fronds at times. Have heard reports of A myolensis doing the same but haven’t seen it myself. Never heard of A purpurea doing it. I don’t think it’s a reliable trait to distinguish between Archontophoenix sp.

The hybrid debate is an intriguing one, a lot of growers say it doesn’t happen and then there is evidence of it occurring in gardens and collections. Even a hybrid in my mother in law’s garden from Butia x syagrus and that was a natural occurrence from wind or bats or some sort bird or insect. So it’s definitely happening naturally. Genetic testing would definitely help and appease all those interested in hybrids. I respect the work that goes into creating hybrids and the credit to the grower in doing so.

Possibly an Albang then, a genetic sport from the Albang. Plants have interesting ways when it comes to hybrids F1, F2 and so on. Be an interesting back cross then.

The dominant theories are that this is: A hybrid that occurred at Phil Bergman's Jungle Music nursery in California. A variety of one of the known species. While it is possible it was an undiscovered distinct species that slipped into a seed batch, my personal thoughts were always a hybrid similar to @James B above. Genetic testing would put the proverbial nail in the coffin.

So what’s the name of the one that has a flush of colour in the new leaf then?

Being a local San Diego guy, I believe that the name was created by the guys at a local nursery, Jungle Music. The seeds came from a particular palm at the home of Phil, the owner. Phil’s a great nurseryman, but I never got around to asking him what he felt made this particular palm different. Whenever I see the “teracarpa” designation, I know that’s the place that came from.

Bright dappled light is about the max that they want, full blazing sunlight you would get a nice yellow one I would think. The more humidity the more sun certain palms will take. A little midday sun would be fine but as for powering a dozen solar panel sunlight I don’t think it would it be too happy.

Mother Nature will always throw something new on the table over time, after all Charles Darwin was onto something good!

Never heard of it, and Australia is the home of archontophoenix!

I would be interested in what a Archontophoenix teracarpa actually is too as it’s not something I’ve ever seen here in Australia. However there are reportedly some paler cunninghamiana somewhere out there in the wild.

What's your water pH? pH 6.2 or 6.4 gets the best absorption of nutrients in cycads. Of course rain water is always best.

It’s a grafted “Bruce” Canistel. Here it is today. Here are my two white sapotes “Vernon” and “suebelle”. Here is the black sapote I think whatever that is on the leaf’s isn’t a big deal, mine have it too. The new leaf’s look good. I think you should fertilize with fish emulsion. Everytime I do it flowers all year. I water everyday.

Wide leaflet Zamia splendens

No, I've never had that issue. Has the weather been stinking hot since you planted it out? They seem happiest in cooler conditions usually, so it might be a bit of heat stress potentially? The more I look at your pictures, the more I think it needs a deep drink!

You’re not alone , Jim. I had a beauty ( Wodyetia Bifurcata)for 7-8 years with about 7’ of trunk . One year it started pushing shorter fronds and looking poor , eventually it died . The other one I had died within a year of planting , I have tried everything to save them. I have a palm friend a few blocks away that has one that is huge and healthy ( producing lots of viable seeds!) . He also had another one that did exactly what mine did . I tell people “ hit and miss” for these . I have two small ones that I bought from a private grower who was getting rid of them because he lost so many . He said “ I quit !” I got a great deal and they are plugging along slowly . Some gardens have really nice Foxtail palms , I just haven’t figured them out yet. Harry

Here is Joey #2 and the last photo shows their proximity. Tim

Well Richard, ask and you shall receive. These have growing for a few years, actually faster than I expected. First off is J. altifrons #1. Both are planted fairly close to one another. The ole shovel for scale. Tim