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May 3, 2026 update I don’t see much of a difference since the last update. It’s hard to tell when all the new growth is out of my view. It’s been very nice these last few months. yellow golden green

I have Ceroxylon alpinum, quindiuence, and amazonicum doing well for years. No trunks yet but hopefully soon.

Bump...updated photos of #1 and #2 palms. I have a palm acquired from Phil at Jungle Music about a dozen years ago that was labeled as Pritchardia beccariana. I think it most resembles your #2 palm Matty. It has flat, large round leaves with many shallow pleats compared to the deeper pleats on most other Pritchardia I have growing. Steve please share a photo or two of yours as well.

Chambeyronia hookeri

There is a good chance that the one I collected died ( I’m starting to recall being numbed that it died) and this is the one I got from Jastin. Still I’m pretty sure it’s not baccariana though. It’s gets the crap kicked out of it by basketballs and wiggle balls.

Calyptrocalyx leptostachys. Tim

A bit of luck with the pollination on the adscendens in the garden. Should go close to another 400 seeds from the rest of the mother plants, not a bad haul from the garden for a relatively rare palm.

The first two photos go together…

H rheophytica and Bismarkia today

Tracy, yours looks 100% like beccariana to me. Great looking palm..

Yep, ^ this is exactly what i saw when roaming the area after the 2010 freeze.. Wasn't there in '18, but did see a morning or two near freezing ( ..light frost in my yard, over by IMG Academy ) in early '16, right before moving here. As mentioned elsewhere, saw frost in yards near where i'd worked at the time in Sarasota, just west of 75 on the same days as well. Saw some 2026 street views near the old house in Bradenton yesterday and ..I too was surprised to see specific trees i'd pass daily / observe closely looking completely flawless ( Gumbo Limbo planted near the Oyster Bar, Cassia afrofistula in a yard nearby on FL. Blvd, Pseudobombax e. near the CVS / Target on Bayshore Gardens ) Expected to see more remnant damage..

I also got a archontophenoix tuckeri, and my star fruit, mango tree and bardebos cherry are all coming back after the 22 degrees. After the coconut was planted I saw 40 degrees a week after it was planted. Coconut has grown about 2 feet in the main spear 3 feet in a smaller one and a completely new spear is emerging. It hasn’t really gotten taller is just widened out

Dave, I’ve always been a “plant them even when they’re tiny” kind of guy. Many of my big honking palms were planted as 2 or 3 inch seedlings directly to the ground. Here are just a few of them…

I've seen several palms that look different to me, all being labled as P. beccariana. So in an attempt to narrow down what a real P. beccariana is, I'll post some pics of a couple of mine. Palm #1 Pictured below is the first Pritchardia that I ever got. It was labled as Pritchardia beccariana and I got it from Jungle Music in a 5 gallon pot in 2006. It was growing at my old place before I dug it up and moved it, but all the pics below are pics of the same palm, from 2007 to 2011.

PRA rewind of 2008 "Ants" attack at Casaphippsberger

Thanks👍 I will let everyone know how it goes.

I was incorrect, the survival rate was 4%. One of the survivors was in a larger pot, left on the patio the entire winter. So of the 2 "bag" survivors, the best one was on the edge, and the hanger on was in the middle. I do not think the losses were temperature related. More to follow.....

Hi mnorell, and thanks for the question. I have three types Medjool about 120 trees, 50 Zahidi and 10Barhi, I have just started with Barhi and only have 10 trees. Barhi are expensive to get started with at about $300 each as a Medjool is around $50. So for one row of 10 trees with irrigation is about $4,500 to start Barhi, My understanding of the Barhi cost is from them not producing as many offshoots compared to Medjools. I'm all ears on growing one off's like my favorite a Zahidi but it comes down to how do you get 40-50 trees at one time to allow a good start and from whom? I know they have farms but its very difficult and some times they do not like to share and the next obstacle is these types of trees cant be imported. I'm all for a group effort or even to take advice for what would be the next tree that has interest.

A pair of big Eugenes throwing nice flushes.

Pure strain Arenarius throwing a nice one.

Well... that orange geiger never bloomed the whole time I had it. I put it in a good spot where it gets over 6hrs of full sun before shade from cabbage palms hit around 3-4pm. When I started this stuff a few years ago a lot of plants would say "full sun" but would be droopy and unhappy looking when there. After more research most would say "full sun, unless you live in a warmer climate then they might appreciate a little late afternoon sun"... Not the case with sebestian cordia, they love the sun and the heat wanting as much as possible. I was surprised that it grew well (over 6ft tall) and never bloomed at all. It wasn't till I put another smaller one in front by the road in full/full unrelenting sun and it bloomed profusely anytime it wasn't winter, only limited by how many terminals were available. That's where I realized my mistake, but didn't have the heart to dig it out and let that hard freeze do my dirty work. Ironically the one up front that bloomed so much didn't grow back from ground.

The small understory dypsis palms are just so beautiful. They just fit perfectly in the garden. Dypsis minuta dypsis minuta dysis sp dypsis dypsis forcifolia dypsis lantzeana Dypsis minuta dypsis poiveana dypsis mirabilis dypsis lantzeana dypsis poiveana dypsis poiveana

I’ve only tried the Lanceolata and Basilonga in the garden between larger palms and they seem to be liking it as understory palms , the former being the larger , faster growing of the two. I think they may be larger , as time goes on , than the species that you pictured . I just love them though . The ones you have are beauties there . I would certainly give them a go if I had the room and access to seedlings . I’m not sure which ones will end up as Chrysalidiocarpus , though that doesn’t really matter to me . Harry The double Basilonga with twine holding them secure in the breezy location. Very little direct sun here . You can see the new frond just opening on the right . That’s the second frond to open since planting the almost 2 years ago. The Lanceolata is faster , and much tougher . No need to secure this one . It has seen a bit more dappled sun and a lot of wind.

Here is the pic he sent yesterday . He is leaving for Japan in a few days . He only lives a few blocks away on my hill so I have easy access to copious amounts of seed from his “Watermellon” Macrocarpa . Harry There are two of these infrutescens . I may go down there and see for myself but he is busy getting ready for his trip and they will be gone for a while . I have access to the yard but he offered to bring them up to me. Are these hard to germinate? I have heard they , like Decipiens , take a while. Harry

Quesnelia marmorata 'Tim Plowman' I think.

I got a 15 gallon coconut tree and it has 10 fronds and a base about 3 feet or so in diameter, one picture is a size 13 croc next to it, I also elevated the bed, planted away from the huge 30 foot sable, and got a much healthier tree in general. When I ripped out the old coconut the roots had barely grown and it looked pretty sad. And I won’t rip off and old boots this time. I’m only living here 4 more years so my goal is for it to live 4 years. It’s about 11 feet tall.

Here is an update photo for some reason the bottom 3 frawnds have crisped up but the main spear has grown so much and I have a new spear forming

Chamaedorea Radicalis

Just snapped these pics just now. Seeding for the first time. Definitely faster in sun than shade. She gets sun all day now.

Chamaedorea metallica and a dypsis lantzeana enjoying the rain!

What’s been popping up on the heat mats. Some interesting varieties coming up and a few late arrivals. Mostly imported seeds, but a few local varieties a big thank you to @tim_brissy_13 for the trackycarpus varietys.

Five top palms for any collection. Left to right, licuala ramsayi, Chambeyronia macrocarpa,Ravenna glauca, dictyosperma album and ptychosperma elegans!

The everglades palm is doing really great. Cleaned it up and you can start to see some trunkage

….and Santa didn’t need to deploy his sleigh! Great haul , Jim . Reminds me of my visits to @DoomsDave . Just curious , do you leave them in a protected environment for a while , or plant them out right away ? Harry

PRA rewind of 2008 “Ants” attack at Casaphippsberger

Did you buy or make those shovels? I'm hoping to find something similar for my home orchard.

Definitely interesting project. Keep these pics coming

Thanks for the info! And please let me know if your friend is interested it would be fantastic to see something like that.

My trees are flowering now and are about 8 years old. The ones I have in 15gl pots are about 3-4 years old so another few years. The larger and older the palm or offshoot the faster you are to having fruit but the more expensive they are. I've found no good books for a small hobby farmer but you will want to read about irrigation, fertilization for both the palm and also when they start to flower. I have gone out in the date fields and work with the Palmero's and they have shown me how to cut out an offshoot or what to look for in palms, etc. The internet is the best bet and just keep asking questions. I know the soil is AZ is like clay and if this is the case for you and your location you will have to excavate more then the space you need for planting and backfill this will sand and compost or the roots have a hard time.

I should have asked where are you located? I have about 20 - 5 year old female Medjool's in 15 gallon containers. That would be an instant small grove.

Yes it works very well and I would have interest in some offshoots. The problem is we would need both male and female to keep the gene going and not produce a hybrid using pollen from a different type of date palm.

Correct. Micropropagation using Novel inflorescence explants. I have a facility just need to build out a clean room and lab and space for this.

Seed

I just got one with some help from Jastin. Can't wait to see what it grows up to be!

It's the costa that shows yellow on the leaves of some of the Pritchardia. More pronounced in full sun. Your P. forbesiana is true to form for that species. P. beccariana can be deceptive when young. When they flower and fruit, the brachs tend to aim upward along the trunk axis more than outward in the horizontal axis, That has been my observation watching my five trees grow from seedlings to maturity. The leaf segments droop somewhat and the entire leaf tends to undulate moderately, rather than flatten out. The leaves seem more plyable than the other species. Does that help? Or have I just muddied up the water even more?

See, that yellow stripe again.

Whoah, that is really fast

Matty, Here is a pic of one of my Pritchardia's. I have a pretty nice collection of them going in my garden. One day I will take a picture of each of what I think I have My Beccariana. I think it looks like the ones in your first post. I have to research where I got this puppy. Prichardia is the largest genus in my humble palm collection. Hope this helps. Manny

I've always thought of beccariana as the Hawaiian Pritchardia with the roundest leaf (maybe excepting viscosa). It also seems split less than most others. Your #2 palm from Jungle Music seems to fit what I would think a smallish one would look like, based on pictures I've seen of adults in habitat. So there you have it. The #3 palm is Pritchardia pritchardiopsis for sure..