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A nice row of hookeri with almost three in a row putting on show.

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Well I got up this morning to thick fog and mist and about 16C with 100% RH. The fog didn’t lift until around 9.30am but it just reminded me of a cloud forest environment especially when I looked at my Parajubaeas which come from the Andes. So I took some pics. The trees were also dropping a lot of condensed water like rain in the rainforest area whenever the slightest breeze went through. I’m really happy that the trees were acting like rainforest trees. Really beautiful morning. Now in the afternoon it’s about 26C and very humid.

iguanura GFAreca rheopytica Cham adscendens kerriodoxa elegans dypsis louvelli Geonoma atrovirens Pinanga disticha

The ever reliable radicalis fits into any situation in the garden easy to grow and germinate sets seeds easy can almost be used as a ground cover if get the trunkless variety planted on mass cold tolerant a good patio indoor plant or in a nice container in a palm collection just because it’s common doesn’t mean it hasn’t got beauty and grace a great chamaedorea to grow

Very interesting information! I have found out also a couple other distinctive features of the dwarf form compared to the trunking one. Leaves of former have a rougher texture and seeds are smaller. Latter has a more glabrous texture and a subglaucous color on petioles and leaflets, perhaps due to more sun and wind exposure. Also seeds of latter are bigger. My oldest radicalis had been bought from Germany as a plant with already pinnate leaves, which had identical texture the the rest plants from your seeds. It used to remain for ever dwarf too, but I had the impression that it had a subterranean, creeping small trunk, just like Howea belmoreana. Unfortunately it got pissed to death by my dog.

Dont you love getting up early just to head of to work, we spend our chiliensis getting up early just to go to school, now we do the same, only difference is we get to wonder around our garden before work. Gone are the days of sleeping in!

A nice satakentia tucked in for the approaching winter.

A lot more landscaping needs to be done for all the new varieties. But I have the perfect little shovel I just purchased for the job, iam sure it is well suited to do the job!

Here’s a few more heterospathe elatadypsis sanctamariedypsis confusabeccariophoenix madascariensis

Omg shes a trunk and a half that one, I have yet to see my trunkless ones get a trunk. So iam not sure about this myth I have heard. When you say dwarf do you mean a variety that is smaller than the other trunkless varieties or just a stocky plant without a trun?

A couple of dasyantha seedlings!

Calyptrocalyx elegans and a iguanura broad leaf sp

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Phoenix market home depots have imported some rarely seen (here) tropical palms for the houseplant/patio department. If you've ever been in search of some spindle palms or Chinese fountain palms at a reasonable price, opportunity might be knocking... 😄 I saw a few chunky ones in my area that were tempting, but still passed as I already have a spindle. 🤷‍♂️ aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Thanks for the advice. I will research into those palms as well. I'll give these areas a try and look around next time I'm around there. I see some of my neighbors have some good sized ones here in new river. The specimens that inspired me to grow them were these ones at the Hassayampa river preserve in Wickenburg. Astronomically massive. Theres some people in one of the photos for size comparison. I didn't get a photo but one of them had their skirt/beards never trimed and was taller then all the rest. Looked stunning.

Here is mine in Phoenix it is in grass so gets lots of water plus I run the hose on it and give it more!!’ I have 3 others that are not in grass and they grow but don’t look good I probably should run extra water on them but am tired of crazy water bills!!!

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Thick fog, mist and 100% RH this morning in Melbourne. Good time to take a pic of my P sunkha (front) and P tvt (back) surrounded by some tree ferns. They’ll all be enjoying this weather more than the extreme heat we had this summer.

The first thing that caught my eye today is the fact that despite me having been unable to work in the yard for months, plants are growing but some sure need mowing. I see my volunteer palms that hitched a ride from Floribunda are keeping pace with my remaining stilt palms - I had one cycad pot that had two volunteer palm seeds in it and another with one.

Double Coconut (Lodocea) at Ann Norton:

Yes you can’t beat them for easy growing and predictable growth plus cold tolerance opens up many a gardening opportunity in most situations they even take a bit of sun well not hot afternoon sun but definitely bright dappled shade.

A couple more misty shots.

Well, they were made with the first seeds that arrived in the 1980s from the USA to a friend of mine. (I hope the chamaedorea seeds I sent you yesterday arrive.)

Absolutely no trunk. Just leaf sheathes protruding from soi, meaning that half of the leaf base remains under surface. Those plan5s are older than the nearby trunking ones.

Of course my friend!

Konstantinos the low form comes from my seeds?

I have the same Rite-Green 40lb bag of Manganese Sulfate. I bought it ~5 or so years ago and it'll probably be a true "lifetime supply."

I did hear that the trunkless variety eventually get a trunk. My ones without a trunk are 30 years old so iam still in the jury box on the information I was given. Richard

Doesn’t sound good for you, your persistent attempts in vain are saying that the palm won’t grow in your climate. If you’re that keen to get one I suggest you try getting seeds from one that is in the coldest possible location around, then germinate them grow them in a protected spot until they are at least 3 to 4 feet tall, this may give you a palm that is somewhat acclimatised to the cold. By collecting seeds from a palm that has already felt what cold weather is like, seeds from a tropical location are far more prone to cold. Good luck.

yeah i agree as of now on mobile you can’t directly quote images you either have to quote the whole entire comment or quote whatever nearby text there is and hope others know what you’re referring to.

Looking good Don! That's a 10K palm at moon valley ...😄 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Those are nice. Harry

Yes I do, but not sure if it stays true to form from seed. Pm me if you’re interested in importing. But iam sure someone in the US should have seeds. I have them now ready to pick.

A toasty Monday underway in the low desert.. 107 when i took the screen shot a few mins. ago, now up to 109 ( at 1:45PM ).. We'll see if we notch ..or eek past.. the 110F mark. Regardless, depending on your neighborhood, it might be in the mid -100s, or already topping 110 / 110+ right now. Always a bit surprised by this part of Chandler / Sun Lakes part of town.. Infested with neighborhood Golf Courses yet, as you can see, some of the hotter readings on the hotter days occur down there.. ..Not that it is exactly cool outside those areas.. Anyhow... Luckily, this looks like the hottest day of this particular warm up as temps start the forecasted downward slide to a more " normal May heat " level tomorrow.. Further abroad? Nice, late spring surge / flirty tease of monsoon -esque moisture driving some storm development over the Sierra Madre Occidental on the Satellite loop today.. With just a little of that moisture trickling into the mountains down around the borderlands. ...where they always get the fun stuff, first, lol. Closer inspection reveals maybe a brief, dry storm or two could be trying to form over the Santa Rita, Huachuca, and maybe the Chiricauhua mountains.. with a few weak build ups trying to bubble up as far north as the Sups < local nick name for the Superstition Mtns > just east of the valley.. If we're lucky, maybe a little of that southern moisture arrives overhead ..in the form of scattered, " here and there " clouds... by sunset.. Could see a slight uptick in buildups / storm or two more down across the borderlands tomorrow, otherwise, ..hot n' sunny locally ..though it should be a few degs cooler than today, ..w/ maybe a few more clouds around to make the sky a bit more interesting.. Gotta share / spread the fun stuff around a bit, ya know..

I've tries this palm multiple times, in the most sheltered spots in my yard, but they simply don't live long here. By long, I mean, they don't survive a single winter. Our winters in Fresno have not dropped below 34F in approximately 10 years, which in theory would be within lutescens' tolerance range. We have a prolonged, cool/wet period from Nov through Feb each year with lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s, and highs in the 50s and 60s. No frost some years, but even without frost, these begin to slowly die. Whatever fungal issues arise from the prolonged cool/wet conditions, they're accelerated by warm temps in April, and whatever canes may look ok/decent by then, inevitably rot with the arrival of warm weather. Just a short drive south, over Tejon Pass and into the Los Angeles basin, winters are dry and sunny so this palm does great with very little care.

Here's an update on growth speed from my neighbor, Ray, who bought one of my 5 gallon jubaeas just 4 years ago. Full, blasting, all day Arizona desert sun, planted in a 24" box equivalent cement planter. Tree grows like a weed with little to no burning, even after experiencing occasional 120F daytime summer temperatures. I'm super impressed with his growing skills. I think consistent moisture has mainly been the key to his success. Jubaea chilensis is definitely a viable species for a low desert growing environment. Congratulations Ray!👍 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Pritchardia martii. Tim

Here's a few more flushes turning my garden back from brown to green! On the left middle an unknown "big green Encephalartos" is flushing. It could be an Equatorialis or just natural variation of Ituriensis/Whitelockii. Just behind it the big one is a Gratus x Laurentianus. Common Zamia Furfuracea are flushing bronze in the middle. In the foreground a Sclavoi x Ituriensis has 5 leaves going, and in the bottom center a Natalensis x Horridus has 5 finished leaves. Just to the bottom right is a Horridus x Natalensis with 3 new fronds in process. Not really visible behind the Pygmy Dates are a couple of Zamia Vasquezii and Picta also flushing. Also not really visible is a double-coning Cycas Simplicipinna on the other side of the path from the Gratus x Laurentianus. So this is sort of a 10-fer flush! In the center rear bed a few more are going gangbusters! The middle is a big Dioon Spinulosum with a pup flushing too. Just behind is to the left is a 2-headed Cycas Revoluta flushing just one of the two heads. Just below it is a single frond growing up on a tiny Encephalartos Umbeluziensis. Bottom left corner is a "fasciated" Zamia Furfuracea. The lower right cone is an unfortunate timing on a male Cycas Multipinnata that was completely defoliated. To the right behind the Spinulosum is a solid flush on an Encephalartos Ferox. In the background left of the Spinulosum is one of the triple Encephalartos Whitelockii/Ituriensis with a solid 8 leaf flush. The other two in the triple are thinking about it...but not quite yet!

Couple of Chambeyronia hookeri looking quite happy!

That's one of the furthest inland pre-2010 coconuts in Manatee county. It's been there at least since 2007 https://www.google.com/maps/@27.4392994,-82.4530506,3a,48.9y,26.72h,87.46t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s9lTgaiMreRLuOxA_fpQ0vw!2e0!5s20071101T000000!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D2.5371347235223425%26panoid%3D9lTgaiMreRLuOxA_fpQ0vw%26yaw%3D26.719328648313933!7i3328!8i1664?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDUwMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

The good old Chambeyronia and the dypsis saintlucei poking its head up above the greenhouse.

Gausia maya, Burretokentia hapala.

Well done I got some quindiuense to sprout from the last RPS batch, I checked a couple of the parvifrons and found they had no embryo.

The differences between it and L. dasyantha are provided here: https://palms.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/PALMSv70n1p005-011-Qin-New-palm-from-Yunnan.pdf Recently, I have collected many samples of L. dasyantha and L. yunnanensis from more locations, and we're working on their relationships in pollens, and evolution using better sequencing methods.

They would have to one of easier palms to grow and propagate I get them popping up all over the place some I weed out others I leave I might germinate these ones from the trunk less varieties I prefer those ones they can get up to 3 meters tall probably taller but still a nice palm Richard