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A colorful couple in the morning sun. Pinanga insignis, and orange Areca vestiaria. Tim

B fenestralis I cleaned up the area around this palm and gave it a good watering. The windows are showing really well and only the oldest frond has any kind of burn of damage after winter. I really enjoy this palm!

Definitely not Rhopalostylis. I get volunteer ones by the dozens and they look very different. They start out with bifid leaves like in the photo below.

Pinanga caesia may suffer from overexposure on PT, but mine only recently started blooming so the novelty hasn't worn off yet. I still get startled when I walk by when a new inflorescence is about to open. The entire tree is Technicolor, but the blooms dial it up to 11.The deep red covering (bract?) only stays on for a few hours. After it falls away, the soft pink flower buds are exposed for less than a day. First thing the next morning the flowers open to a cloud of bees. After only a few hours all the flowers have fallen to the ground leaving just the bare violet rachilia that might go on to make fruit, if I'm lucky. I wonder what role the intense colors play. I assume the bees are attracted to some fragrance, not the color, but I really don't know. I could believe brightly colored fruit attracts birds for seed dispersal, but that is months down the road. No matter, it is an impressive, albeit brief, show. Palmpedia says this species is difficult in California. I hope people on the mainland are able to find a protected spot in their garden that can provide the right microclimate for this beautiful palm. If you are going to try zone pushing, might as well swing for the fences. I hear that this is one of the taller Pinangas,. I'll need to keep adding another baby every few years so I always have eye level blooms.

One of my coconut palm spear caught my eye with its huge size

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated:

If they came from @NatureGirl then it probably isn't a Rhopie...they don't grow in FL. I'm not sure what to guess on it. Maybe Allagoptera Arenaria?

Thank you! Will try to get more on "What in the world".

Hazard to guess, not knowing where you acquired it. Looks a bit like Rhapidophyllum.

First photo definitely Aiphanes sp. The what in the world palm I can’t quite put my finger on but definitely not Howea. I’m nearly certain not Laccospadix either. The fronds and petioles remind me a lot of Carpoxylon, but I’ve never seen one with dead leaf bases attached and all the debris hanging on give me the impression it’s not a crownshafted palm. That could just be the way old bases are hanging on though - would be interesting to see what it looks like cleaned up a bit.

I had some lead burn on my Washingtonia, but otherwise everything is growing out nicely

Howea is a tough grow here but the Breaker's manages to grow them decently in nooks and crannies with heavy canopy. I do not know what this palm is or the first. Wish we could grow those beautiful Howea's!

Your "What in the world is this" palm -- could it be an unhappy Howea forsteriana?

Sad news. Condolences to the family

Oh no.... His love for the Lytos is a huge part of what kept me interested in palms. An absolute legend. I learned so much despite having so little interaction with him. I'm really sorry to hear this. His passion and his knowledge will be missed dearly.

Some form of Cocothrinax in front of a cluster of MacArthur palms. Please help me with ID's and corrections.

What in the world is this:

Juvenile Latania lontaroides. They do not stay red in humid Florida long:

Bottle Palm that DoomsDave may recall:

Shot of the same palm from another direction:

Red Latania new frond

Chrysalidocarpus loucoubensis sowing some color after a frond drop. Tim

The ‘ole’ Chrysalidocarpus paucifolius, aka ‘orange crush.’ Love the scale that growing in almost solid rock dictates. Tim

Hyophorbe indica green and red forms planted as a double showing off a nice contrast of colour.

Licuala orbicularis in the Coffs Harbour botanical gardens.

Some nice colour on this Butia odorata inflorescence.

Bismarkia

Licuala ‘mapu’ inflorescence. Tim

Trying to correct:

I had the pleasure of getting a tour of @oliver's garden and thought I would share a few photos of the palms he has growing that survived 2021 freeze and I was able to photograph. He also has a Raphia sp. (sese?) planted next to a resaca so it stays wet. First up Tahina spectabilis.

2026 update...and yep, still thriving! The overall width on the last several sets of fronds has widened substantially, with them starting to encroach on my Syagrus campylospatha. Also, comparing the trunk height, the new growth appears to me to be emerging several inches taller; last years shows about at eye height on the statue, this year eyebrow height.

Beautiful sunset at Mission Bay Park during San Diego’s hottest March weather on record.

Cocothrinax Alta and dypsis lastelliana looking good!

Thought I'd share a few pics from my yard after a rather chilly winter - the Central Valley of California had a record-breaking fog event from late November through about the end of 2025. Temps stayed in the 40s for 360+ consecutive hours - no freezing, no frosts, just consistently cold and wet with next to no sunshine for nearly a month. Most palms grew right through it, but a few of the more tropical species really hated this - I rehomed a few to warmer (drier/sunnier) climates down south. Here are a few shots from today - everything in growth mode as we're getting 80s and 90s consistently - racing toward the 100s too! In just a matter of weeks winter will be a far memory as we bake in the 100s until we cool again in October. Archontophoenix tuckeri - grown from seed from @DoomsDave. I'm pretty sure you threw a handful of seeds at me during one of my visits to your place. Trunking archontophoenix cunninghamia in the back. Seed-grown howea forsteriana & allagoptera peeking in behind tuckeri. Syagrus rommanzoffiana - nothing special, but I recently did clean up the trunk, which makes it look 10x nicer. A shot of my front yard - the pink Handroanthus is just about done blooming. Below it I have Brahea Super Silver, Brahea Pimo, and closest to the bottom is a Jubaeopsis affra, recoving from an irrigation mishap in summer of 2024. The irrigation timer went offline mid June while we were out of the country traveling, and this whole area went without water for 2 weeks. Jubaeopsis took that personally. It's been slowly recovering from that 'drought' event. Handroanthus umbellatus was in bloom just a few weeks ago. This is Livistona speciosa. I grew this from seed, and gave the rest to folks in Southern California. Does anyone have any still growing? I think some of them may have gone at palm society auctions. Chamaedorea hooperiana - The ficus roxburghii looks so pretttyyyyy in the back with all that new growth Sabal uresana - looking stretched. This thing is slowwwwwwww This is the view out our back door. Arcontophoenix tuckeri on the left. The red amaryllis is an heirloom passed down from a neighbor before she passed. Phoenix rupicola. You can spot the Brahea Super Silver in the background. The silver-ish palm below it is Chamaerops humilis var. argentea. There's a Cycas deboaensis on the bottom right that will need to find a permanent spot. I have a habit of putting plants in temporary spots, then moving them when I decide on a permanent spot. I feel like plants develop much better in the ground than in pots. They also benefit from regular irrigation being in the ground, and I don't have to worry about forgetting to water them in pots. This little corner area is filling in so nicely, and will become very thick with vegetation as plants keep growing. Beccariophoenix alfredii is in the far back. Ravenea glauca is center toward the left. Sabal mauritiformis is off to the right. Cycas revoluta x deboaensis is front and center. Lastly, a shot of a Clytostoma callistegioides flower, and a Dendrobium chrysotoxum which I have in bloom. The Dendrobium is grown inside a greenhouse. The last photo is of my plumerias waking up after a chilly nap. I had lots of rot to deal with this winter. BONUS - see if you can spot the Chrysalidocarps prestonianus... It went into the ground directly as a 4-inch plant from Floribunda some 5 or 6 years ago. Almost forgot the Chrysalidocarpus decaryi as well. Decaryi doesn't like the prolonged cold/wet conditions, but it grows out of damage fairly quickly - and we don't always get those particularly cold/wet winters. Some years we are dry and sunny like the rest of Southern CA.

Sun exposure changes them quite a bit also. I just ran across this post demonstrating different growing conditions on the Neo “Lambert’s Pride”. In general, a lot of folks greatly underestimate the amount of sun that Neoregelia, Aechmea, Billbergia and Hohenbergia want to look their best. Here a lot of sun exposure in the cool winter months can bring out a lot of color

Dypsis louvelli Dypsis lantzeana Calyptrocalyx benga dawn

Chrysalidiocarpus Lutescens some pink on the new spear to accent the orange/gold The colorful fruit of Chamaedorea Microspadix goes well with the soft green texture of the leaves. Harry

I think this dypsis louvelli classifys as a bit of colour!

2 pics from yesterday and 2 from today. I love this dypsis Mt. something or other

Nice color on the first new leaf from our little C. ambositrae, purchased from @Darold Petty a couple of months ago

Cocos nucifera

Cocos nucifera (Coconut) in Malta update 1st December 2025. Reduced watering in November due to cooling of temperatures. I'm checking soil moisture every day and won't artificially irrigate unless first one or two inches of soil gets dry. Also stopped liquid fertilizer once daytime high dropped below 21 degrees celcius /72 degrees Fahrenheit. Applied slow release fertiliser a few weeks ago plus rabbit manure. The next 5 months will be challenging for their survival. The biggest one survived two winters, winter 2023-2024 it was small in a 3 litre bag and I used to bring inside at night. Winter 2024-2025 24/7 outdoors in a 42 litre pot. Now in the ground. The 3 in the 42 litre pots survived winter 2024-2025 in 3 litre bags but I used to bring inside at night. Now first attempt 24/7 outdoors. The last two are from this year they're in the 3 litre bags

Brahea

D. Lamarkianum with flowers about to open

Just a little guy, but this Livistona rigida is blushing all over. More so than it's siblings for some reason!

@Bkue at last year's open house at MB Palms had Alexandrae 3g for $15 and Cunninghamiana "Illwarra" 25g for $150. I bought a Purpurae big 4" pot for $20 at the Leu Gardens sale. @D. Morrowii that's about twice as big as my seedlings that struggled...and it looks deep green when you planted it. Maybe mine were just a bit too small and pale to go into the ground. What did you do for fertilizer and water on that one? Here's a "family shot" of the front yard Archontophoenix. As you can see, there's a bit of overhead sacrificial canopy with a couple of other frost-sensitive plants, tall stalks of a Ficus Auriculata, "Jesse Durko" bamboo, and an unknown Cycas that's only leaf-hardy to about 28F. There used to be a cluster of Dwarf Cavendish bananas over the foreground left Alexandrae, but last summer a local bear decided to use them as a chew toy. The bottom right foreground is a Beccariophoenix Fenestralis:

This is a potted Waggie 5 years after germination: