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Just a guess but G maya will like it relatively dry. Or at the very least they’ll need very good drainage in humid and wet climates. Maybe by the look of the moss growing on the soil they might be a tad too moist for their liking? I’ve found in general non crownshafted pinnate palms seem to be susceptible to crown rot from being too moist especially if there’s overhead watering. Any water getting in the crowns? I’ve lost Syagrus schizophylla, Caryota urens and others from this.

" " very " interesting " stuff encountered while out on " Operation Scotch Bonnet " ... Which i did not find, unfortunately. Then again.. While no name Coffiea arabica starts do show up at this and other local nurseries so often, don't recall ever seeing large plants like these anywhere, here esp. These are Geisha. ..Of course i picked up one of the no names to trial both indoors and out under the back patio. Standard Guava, Strawberry < and/or Lemon Guava > and some Dragonfruit var. i did not get a name next to the Coffee plants in this same block of edible Tropicals .. Surprisingly large < for local nurseries " > Plumeria " Singapore " specimens. Furcraea ..macdougallii?? i think.. Nice sized Aloe Ferox ..Labeled as such anyway.. First time i have ever seen decent - sized Bursera fageroides in -any- nursery, esp. any non specialty nursery outside Tucson . $ = a pretty good buy for the size. Not uncommon to see these in nurseries here but, ..seems everyone has them in stock right now.. Calliandra haematocephala, the big leaved / big - sized form. Another " new " Mandevilla.. Mandv. X " Fired Up " ..A likely cross involving one of the rarer / obscure sps from Brasil. Flower color is actually more intense than is captured in the shots. Perfect shade of mid range Orange, with hints of Red and Magenta.. In my hands to trial as soon as i find a smaller sized spec. On a side note: If you are still calling the bush - type Mandevilla " Dipladenia " stop it.. That name hasn't been correct since the genus was lumped in with Mandevilla, back in 1933. Only reason it is still muttered? the ole' timer, Home Despot -esque end of the Nursery / Hort. trade. If you want to be taken seriously as a plant person, don't tie yourself to old, Home Despot - level plant knowledge. ...As inaccurate as calling Hippeastrum " Amaryllis " In that case, they are 2 separate Genus.. Amaryllis = 2 species from South Africa. No native sps in the New World. Both are terrestrial. Hippeastrum = 116 currently known species native exclusively to the New World. A few are epiphytic. ...Anyway.... First time ever seeing Medinella on a shelf at -any - nursery in AZ. These are M. myriantha. Anthurium polystictum... Some ...eeUGGGEE Ficus microcarpa / nitida.. Canopy like this is what you want if you want to grow sun tender palms / other " tropical -esque " stuff that can handle our heat / " cold " in a very sun savaged climate /part of the world.. If i had the space, this is exactly the kind of yard - level microclimate i'd be in the process of developing, only using trees like our near -native Ficus sps instead of any non - natives., others like TX. Ebony, Mesquite, Ceiba, and Pseudalbizia sinaloensis.. BIG, High - canopied trees that provide BIG, high canopied shade that can face the heat.. ...Speaking of Palms? Not the happiest looking specimen, ..but.. ..A rare sight in a local nursery now that might be a steady flow tomorrow???... ..As mentioned, no luck finding any Scotch Bons.. Lots of Reapers, Ghosts, and Bhut Jaloka on the tables though.. Settled w/ a Chocolate Hab. for now.. Digging around after getting back to the house, that might be fine for the " 100+K level Hot Stuff " Pepper trials since there appears to be a mild / Sweet Scotch Bonnet variety that is easy on the heat, but will provide the same Scotch Bonnet flavor for Jerk and hotter Southwestern inspired recipes.. That + the unique flavor profile < and heat > of the Choc. Hab. should make for some interesting eats.

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Marius, it is supposed by many that Brahea 'Super Silver' is a more silvery morph of Brahea calcarea. Here are two photos of Brahea calcarea green form in two locations in the San Francisco Bay Area: the two plants in shade are at the San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park; the close-up shows a plant in Edith Bergstrom's garden near Stanford University in a sunnier location. Both keep the glossy green adaxial surface of the leaf and droopier leaf segments. Pietro Pucci, Brahea clara was once described and published legitimately by L.H. Bailey, only to be subsumed into synonymy with B. armata later. Its horticultural performance (faster, more tolerant of humid and cooler conditions) and characteristics (leaf form, inflorescence, even trunk thickness), as well as its geographical separation, set it apart from Brahea armata. Its population is completely disjunct from that of Brahea armata, as is its climate, in which summer rainfall is dependable, if spotty.

Tag says Aiphanes horrida (cannot find this)

Nice stuff Nathan!

The best way to grow palms is to repot them in stages, going into the next sized container up in size, usually starting with 75mm, 125mm 200mm, 250mm. There are some 180mm pot sizes that are pretty good for 125mm containers to stage up with. Go for it pot him up. Palms dislike being overpotted as well ie 75mm going into 200mm. Not good to do that, also a good root ball to work with is best, if the roots are coming out of the bottom that’s a good indicator to pot up. Another way to tell is if you can pick the palm up by the trunk and it doesn’t pull out of the soil.

Damn that thing is beautiful. More than I deserve. Sprouting seeds maybe sell the babies.

Jubea the Hutt? 😜 or Jubea the But (pronounced like the first syllable of Butia)?

Above normal temps and below normal precipitation. One good one bad. Predictions are a wet fall/winter with a scorcher of a summer for 2027.

Progress:

My diannanensis decided to throw a double cone!!! 😯. Need to find a female so I can produce pure species on this, as the ones at @edbrown_III house are phenomenal specimens! Multifrondis also coning...looks like more hybrids this year! 😁

Hi Marius, B. dulcis has thorns 2-4 mm long along the entire petiole, so it should be excluded, furthermore the shape of the leaf is quite particular. In your latest photos I seem to see very small thorns at the base of some petioles, but perhaps it is a photographic effect. Whatever your species, it can be helpful to see the marked difference between the hastula of B. decumbens and B. calcarea. If you then have patience and wait for flowering there can be no doubts, the inflorescence of the decumbens is short and upwards, that of the calcarea is very long and pendulous.

Two more taken today.

Here is a pic of one of my E. Cleopatras (Arenarius x Horridus.) Each flush gets a little bluer than the last.

I considered that but wasn't sure if the look was right. Probably the most likely suspect. Thanks.

This would have to be a trachycarpus.

I think a Brahea that height would have thicker petioles. Barbs like a hacksaw would lean towards Trachycarpus.

I've been growing it for we'll over 10 years and it's never had any problems with the cold so I don't think it's particularly hard to grow here. Same with F Madagascariensis, which I"ve had for maybe 15 years with zero cold issues. Mada has been a more consistent, albeit not as impressive, bloomer.

Thanks to our ..winter not winter.. and the warm rains during September and early October here this year, one could say " spring ", in the yards at least, started right around Thanksgiving, last year. Now that actual Spring is less than a month away ( using the Meteorological rule, as always, of course ) what hadn't started flowering before the start of the year is proceeding through wave #2 of the early spring acts on stage at the moment, while wave #1 matures and starts going to seed. While a few are hanging on, majority of the " Fall Season " Zinnia are finally starting to fade out. While a basically dry and ..dare i say ..hot.. " winter " thwarted a good display of them in the front lawn, Baby Blue Eyes i'd scattered out there are trying their best to flower. Beyond the yards, earlier flowering form of Sweet Acacia, Mex. Yellow Birds, and many Cascalote can be found still in bloom around the neighborhood. Going by the current forecasts over the next 3 weeks or so, anticipate the rest of the Sweet Acacia, and TX Mtn Laurel across the street may start their cycle ahead of schedule, perhaps by months end ..if not sooner. Regardless, Absolutely NO shortage of color around the yards.. ...With more to come when Spring arrives. Randoms.. Lupinus sparsiflorus ..L. nanus and texanus are starting to bolt atm, suggesting they'll be flowering shortly.. Salvia columbariae, Chia.. Erythrostemon palmeri ..Cycle 2 since the end of November. Should barely be starting it's first flower cycle for the year right now. Opuntia basilaris = First signs of flowers to come. Parry's Penstemon and Russelia equisetiformis. Baja Ruellia ( R. californica / peninsularis ) still in full bloom atm as well.. Eriogonum fasciculatum ssp., AZ native form of CA Buckwheat.. Typically see flowers starting to open on these in ..late March.. Butterfly visitor is Strymon melinus, Gray Hairstreak.. Which are active quite early already. Lippia gravolens, Mexican Oregano. Anisacanthus andersonii, one of the few things sticking to it's flowering season so far this year.. Checking on some of the seed trials... 5 out of 6 Coulter Pine seed germinated? ..not a bad outcome.. CA Sagebrush, coming along nicely.. While most literature suggests the species probably won't like our heat, decided to trial a single good ( Weevil free ) Acorn i'd collected off a Coast Live Oak near the Greystone hills area to test that idea for myself. Probably develop it as a bonsai specimen, ...if.. it actually can handle our heat. Now that the sun angle / day length is increasing, and temps will only increase from here onward, now is the perfect time for trial batches of Cochlospermum / Amoreuxia palmatifida seed off my plants, and seed off my self fertile Bursera fageroides, harvested and planted as each of the fruits finish ripening on the tree. ...If even half of the seed it produced this year are fertile and successfully germinate, i'll have 24 seedlings to play around with. Indoor - started Mex. Oregano cutting trials are up next. ..Onward, to Spring, '26

Nineteen years ago I crossed my fat trunking Butia eriospatha with Jubaea chilensis. I have several of this palms growing here. A few were imported into England also. Yesterday I cleaned the trunk of one of this two. It are beasts! How you call the hybrid of a Butia eriospatha x Jubaea?

Conan was never in any danger! He just loves to meet and greet palms and palm people including me.

I'd go with variegation, it doesn't look like a nutrient deficiency to me.

I had like a whole family show up today. Funny because it all started with me asking when the next farmers market was gonna be, and I probably coulda made a couple more bucks if I went but it's $30 for a booth and now I don't have to load all this crap up in the car. I ain't mad.

This is Bauhinia monandra which is native to Guatemala. My plant is just beginning to leaf out again after winter so the pics are from past years. It blooms from April to December and only grows to about 8'.

It's about 4 years old or so, from seed.😉

Looks like Trachycarpus to me.

Spherical. What’s odd is I have three seeding onilahensis in the yard and all have different seed shapes and sizes and all look different as adults. This specific plant is so what in the middle of weepy and stiff leaf look but has spherical seeds.

Scary only if you're a ground nesting bee.. Slightly.. " scarier " ..but far more interesting? The only truly Venomous Beetle known to science.. And the only known insect that has stinging capabilities located in ..it's antennae. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/849203-Onychocerus-albitarsis#articles-tab Video suggests effects from being jabbed are brief and similar to an unplanned meeting with Stinging Nettle.. Obviously, as with stings from Bees, Ants, Wasps, or Hornets, how 2 people might respond would depend on how sensitive each person might be to whatever cocktail of chemicals are contained in it's venom. Regardless, rare, and something you'd only encounter while poking around a patch of rainforest where it hangs out in South America. Other " Toxic " Beetles < ..Iron Cross / Other Blister Beetles, Bombardier Beetle ..and Stink Beetles ( Elodes ).. > either squirt, or release whatever poisonous / predator - deterring compounds they produce when they sweat when grasped or are crushed.

We tropical fruit fans do try to grow as many as we can down here, yard space willing. There are other colored Jaboticaba varieties advertised here but I dunno if they are the same. Do you know the other half of the hybrid on your Red Jaboticaba? Ryan

Here's my Bauhinia lunarioides, raised from seed, now in bloom too!

Saw this specimen today on my way to pick up grandchildren from school:

Went by this P. elipticum today and got better pictures. Huge specimen. Got 2inches of rain yesterday and wind.

.....Best never to move here cuz' you'll do nothing but whine about how boring and lifeless it is.... Saguaro gearing up a bit earlier than they should be here as well.. I see you.. ...... Such a hell-ish place.. Prob. better to live where there are Hurricanes all the time.

>>>>>> Fav. shot of the day.. >>>>>>>>

Stangeria eriopus with a new frond coming

Oenothera pallida by night, Pt. 2 ..Daylight.. Sidewalk Shorty " at night... ..and in the morning.. Shyer - planted specimen.. 🤔 Thinking it's time to double up on the special fert. this year to balance all the growth accelerating N from years of feline deposits here.. As big as it is now, it should be covered in flowers.. Trusty, potted specimen.. Calla Lily hybrids trials Ipomoea hederacea = two weeks from sprouting to flowering = crazy.. Bursera schlectendalii, Male / Pollen - bearing specimen. Clitoria mariana w/ more colored new foliage.. Flowers starting to form already too. Oxalis sp.. A weed ..of sorts.. but stays short like the Dichondra, green 96% of the year, and lures in any and all Nananthus iole and some other smaller flutter butts passing by ..so, it stays..

This is my favorite thread. So many beauties! Here’s one that needs no introduction:

Standing by.

I can’t speak specifically to freeze damage, but my condolences for all the bronze fronds. In general though, palms can be annoying in their convalescent and perimortem states. They often don’t know they are dead for a year or two. Hanging on to green fronds long after their souls have risen into the great Zone 12 in the sky. They also have a disappointing habit of feigning good recovery, only to crap out a year later from hidden fungal mush mush. Sometimes starting over yields better results. Alfredii sales should be through the roof this year.

For me this was the worst damage I have seen while here in Merritt Island. The cold was bad but the wind was worse. I watered well a few days prior but the combo was too much. The tall stuff got it worse than the low. Fried Jamaicans Thrinax Radiata TR seedlings look ok Seagrape KO tall only the spear is green KO small slightly better Tomatoes that looked fantastic days prior

Bismarckia, Copernicia hospita, Hyphaene petersiana, Latania loddigesii, Medemia, Nannorrhops, Serenoa can have more or less bluish forms. The silvery-bluish gray color is due to a waxy layer which has the function of reflecting part of the solar radiation, it is therefore found in palms that grow in sunny and rather arid areas.

Thanks very much. Are there other Brahea species ( excluding armata and clara) that it could be that sometimes have similar blue grey leaves?

How prominent are the thorns on dulcis? I have three blue grey Braheas that have been thornless but it now looks if they will maybe have weak thorns when they get older. They just look ‘finer’ / more dainty than my blue grey nitida. Petioles are thin compared to leaf size and the beginning of the trunk looks thin too. ill go take pictures shortly and post them

The Brahea without thorns, or almost so, are the moorei, the calcarea, which can rarely have very small thorns at the base of the petiole, and the decumbens, which has very small thorns at the base of the petiole, sometimes almost invisible (photo). B. 'Super Silver' is currently unclear whether it is a species or a hybrid.

Without armored petioles I don’t it could be anything but calcarea. To my knowledge there are two forms, the green form with droopy leaflet tips and the blue form with strict leaflets. Likely also some intermediate forms.

This is my blue calcarea.