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Thought it would be a cool idea to share some in situ Ceroxylon parvifrons pics from my last trip to Ecuador. Hop in if you have recent pics of these wax legends in habitat🙏

That’s a chunky Chamby frond Dave! Here’s a 28 foot P. torralyi frond stretching across my entire front lawn area that I just removed the other day.

Sitting in my home office yesterday in the middle of one of those Eternal Zoom Conferences when I hear this sudden crash thud and see a shadow across my nearby window. it turned out to be an abscised leaf from my watermelon hookeri. Okay, not big like a royal but still big. Maybe you have palms and/or parts of same with unexpectedly large size?

It's not mine and not exactly unexpected but certainly BIG! 😆 Spent frond from a young Lodoicea maldivica.

Some stuff that they claim is slow can grow much faster in the right conditions. I’ve found that crinita is actually pretty fast here for a medium sized palm and they start looking good while still fairly small. This particular crinita is only 14 years old.

Dictyosperma album

This Aiphanes aculeata came from seeds I gather from Jardim Botânico in Rio de Janeiro. It looked much better there than it does here. Kentiopsis oliviformis. These grow very well here. I got a few of them in the garden. Another one of my favorites C. Pempana Got to go. I’ll post a few more this afternoon. Thanks for looking!

Very nice. Yours looks like it’s in a similar situation as mine. I think the extra water from the lawn really helps with the speed on these guys. Yours looks like it’s on the same path of color change too. Here’s mine from 2017 at around the same size as yours. Top leaf shot too from back then.

Great pictures, habitat shots are the best, thanks for posting !

Its been a while since I've posted anything, and figured I'd step it up and document the life of a copernicia fallaensis in my front yard. Here's when I first got it. It was all alone and looking for a forever home. Grown by Josh Allen at his Vista nursery, it was ready to move out and make a life of its own. Hitchhiked it's way to my house in Fresno back in May. Life's been good to it so far. A good, deep, sandy loam (some 80% sand), a warm climate (many days above 100F) and plenty of water. Some cool, though spiky, neighbors as well. No tantrums yet, though we've been enveloped in a thick fog for the better part of 2 weeks. Seems to not mind the chill.

No, this palm is in a private garden in south Florida. It's quite rare in cultivation.

Chamaedorea microspadix spikes potted up The seeds were gift from Mr. Richard, thank you brother @happypalms

Oh yeah. Let dry out and it makes great kindling in the Pyromania Fireplace.

Holy what a beauty 😮

Think I have this same palm

Didn’t think I’d see the day where Hedyscepe would be banned anywhere for any reason. I know they grow like mad over there, but I just can’t imagine them becoming invasive considering it takes about 4 years for seed to ripen. If they’re a problem Richard well hardly take all the seed.

Three new leaves on our little onilahensis

As potentially invasive Rich? That seems a looong stretch...I think maybe NZ might be swinging a bit too hard on all that stuff at the moment, I would have thought conservation of existing ecosystems would be a much higher priority than obsessing over the next highly improbable invasive species?

Here is a Areca macrocalyx and a C leptocheilos I bought these seeds as C. arenarum but I always had my doubts if that’s what it was. It’s still a very impressive palm. It’s hard to get a good photo of it in this lighting and space

Try the ones from Alligator Alley Nursery: https://www.alligatoralley.com/mailorder.html

I just planted two of these here in Rancho Mirage (Palm Springs area)...they had been sitting at a posh local nursery for about a year, presumably grown in Florida, only one of the original three had been purchased, all in 35gal containers and carrying a very high price-tag (and that doesn't usually seem to put off the Palm Springs designers, but I think many customers might have thought they were just some overpriced Bismarckia). I documented these palms in another thread last December...in any event, we needed a couple of specimen palms street-side in front of our house and we made the decision to plunk down the money as this is such a spectacular species and the likelihood of encountering it again here at this size is very slim indeed. The justification also being that I'm 63 at present, so need that 15 or so years of extra growth so I can feel like I planted them when I was 48...even though I'm quite the poorer for enjoying that illusion. They are doing just fine, and I am old enough and palm-experienced enough now to have gobs of patience during the establishment phase, so I don't expect to see much noticeable movement for a couple of years on these. I'm assuming they will endure the occasional temps around the freezing point here without issue since we don't experience frost here in general due to the low dewpoints. Of course Fresno is not going to be so kind in the latter regard, so you may find that to be a problem, although the leaves are largely vertically held, which would minimize any frost accumulation, I would think. In any event, keep all of us posted as this one I think has a future (if a slow-growing one) in California. You won't know until you try it...and keep in mind that there was a day when most of us assumed the exotic Bismarckia nobilis was a tender tropical that belonged only in Florida or Hawai'i.

From what I’ve seen , it is a different species than the Armata. I knew nothing of the “super silver” until I saw it posted on this forum right after I joined . I just thought it was a variant of the Brahea Armata . Harry

Both planted 2015 as small palms..not even close to Stevetoad brahea..probably climate, shade and to much competition...

Mine is about 8-10 years behind I guess but I already love it. It’s nearly finished its green-silver transformation. All the different hues it goes through during transformation are nice but it’s good to see it approaching nearly full silver now.

Added photos to my original post. Couldn’t wait!

Thanks Darold! Hope to recreate something like this in my yard 30yrs from now; a wild and free garden where to get lost

I did a quick count last night before I went to bed, and to be fair, some of these are community pots, the vast majority are seeds sprouting (papaya, mango, guava, clementine) from fruit I ate, etc etc but there's 136 pots in this room. I can deal with a few days of neem stink if it works. I guess if I was smart and planned things out, I would have cleaned better before I decided to go full on crazy. Lol I didn't plan this at all. It started off with a bunch of gifted plants and some freebies and a few deals I couldn't say no to, and it quickly turned into learning the hard way just how small I have to get plywood cut to fit in the car to this absolute madness that's only going to get worse.

Seems like PalmTalk has been a bit slow lately and since I don’t post that much I figured now is probably a good time to post more. So here are a few photos of some palms in my garden. We just came out of the rainy season so most look pretty good at this time. First up is C lanceolata and S yapa to the right. A group of H lagenicaulis Another group but of H verschaffeltii This Pritchardia beccariana got planted last year and replaced a coco palm that got hit by lightning. You can still see the cut off truck of the lightning victim.

Back when I had house plants , I always just used the soupy water method . Yes , you have to repeat the process to keep it under control , but it works and no chemical or foul odor. My Chrysalidiocarpus Lutescens was particularly vulnerable to mealy bugs and scale . It is a lot of work to keep plants looking good indoors and , fortunately, I live in a climate that allows me to grow many palms in the garden where I have very little problem with pests. Even outdoors , I use the soapy water method to “wash “ the pests off on the rare occasions that I get them . If they persist , I use a vegetable spray that is not so toxic to animals or wildlife. Harry

OK I’ll play along . These don’t fall on their own like Dave’s Chambey frond or Jim’s super long frond , but last time I cut an overhanging Obtusa frond ( hanging over a neighbor’s driveway) , it took almost an hour to cut it up in order to dispose of it! I had to drag the frond out into the street to cut it up . Harry

We also pay their salaries but no answer. I could say it's the public service I hate the most. Everywhere else you can at least go and find someone to complaint.

They answer here, but we are the ones who pay their monthly salaries with the customs duties.

also love p. sargentii (called buccaneer or cherry palm in florida). they say extremely slow growing, but here is four years' growth on mine.years' growth on mine.

Gudday mate how’s it hanging whats happening, I got a few Darwin longnecks if you want ta wet the whistle I put a few dogs eyes in the oven can you get some dead horse tar mate, ceya tissarvi! @peachy would know exactly what I said!🤣 And ya gotta talk real fast like us Ozzie’s! Richard

Good Lord, man.

This has been a fun palm to watch grow. I planted it in 2012 as a solid dark green 1 gallon. Slowly it became more and more silver on the bottom of the leaves and then started to turn silver on the tops. Now I have to climb on the roof to shoot a pic of the tops of the leaves and they are solid silver only loosing some their color as the leaf ages. Sorry for the Bigfoot quality photo on the first shot.

Cocos nucifera

yeppers, what zeeth said

I have a friend a few blocks away had the same thing happen that happened to @DoomsDave. A Chambeyronia frond dropped and made a frightening sound . I can see how that can happen , they have a large frond and a self cleaning crown. Harry

LMAO ... Tri, Len, George, and Gary always said Bill has this crazy palm sixth sense that when something palm related was happening ... he would pop up out of nowhere. Well you are doing it again Bill but virtually LOL. Good to see you back! On another note, I can contest to this Hedy Complex. I have over 20 plants in my greenhouse all grown from seed (same age) and some are crazy rockets and some are languishing. Not sure what i am doing wrong ... they all get neglected equally.

A beautiful little palm perfect for the understory the triphylla. A real gem of a palm, definitely the miniature look for a palm that fits into any spot that’s beside a path or an entrance way. As we would say in Australia an absolute bonza of a palm!

Definitely a great little palm for you to grow in that grow room you have!

We haven't been below 40 yet, so no real cold to speak of, but we haven't had much heat either. days in the 50s and 60s with nights in the 40s much of Nov. I feel like I should have planted one of these 20 years ago... totally get the feeling. Would love to see the two you planted! Rancho Mirage seems like it would be a great place for these, given I think RM is home to one of the few (if the only?) fruiting and trunking coconuts in California.

Been quite a while since I checked in! All good here on the Space Coast, Brevard County FL USA! Here is a scene looking north from the west side of our home in the 32951.

A few more photos of my palms. The first is Coccothrinax crinita sp. brevicinis Dictyosperma album Ravenea hildebrandii in the middle of a few Encephalartos Here’s an unknown Dypsis with a Wodyetia and A alexandrae in the back ground Arenga hookeriana clump. It’s hard to keep these looking good here. A clump of Hydriastele rostrata (?) The moon raising over C. decaryi. I just noticed the new fronds look bad. Not sure what’s going on but hopefully it recovers. I’ve already lost 2 of these. Moquitos are coming out. I’ll continue posting a few more photos in the morning.

Moving on to some Licualas. Most I’ve lost the names to but this one is L spinosa. Unknown Licuala. I just noticed it has some ripe seeds I need to plant. Another unknown Licuala This one is seriously overcrowded by a Heleconia. Unknown Licuala This one probably gets too much sun. That’s it for now. I’ll see if I can post a few more palm photos this afternoon. Thanks for looking!

Itaya amicorum, I really like this one but it probably needs to be in a more protected area. A big clump of Walichia siamensis Caryota zebrina. This one deserves more then one photo. C crinita with C leptocheilos

Here are 2 Allagoptera arenaria planted in the corner of the house. I finally got them to produce seed which are just starting to germinate. P sargentii also producing a bit of seeds. Serenoa repens which replaced another one that got too big and out of control. C proctorii Pinanga javana. This one is too exposed to the sea breeze but is hanging in there. Carpoxylon macrospermum. This one has grown well in this climate.

This is mine. Super nice palm 🌴 breahea pimo to its left in the second photo

Amazing! Mine is growing like a weed and the progression is exactly the same. Green, silver bottom, now silver fronds. I love the heel and interest mine provides. If I remember tomorrow, I’ll add a picture.