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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?

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.

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

Dictyosperma album

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.

Think I have this same palm

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!

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

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

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.

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

Holy what a beauty 😮

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

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.

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!

Three new leaves on our little onilahensis

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.

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.

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!

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.

Cocos nucifera

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

Super Silvers aren’t fast but they’re faster than armata.

I have some nice, blue Sabal uresana available for shipping within the US. They are in liners and busting out of the bottom. I have 10 available - some have multiple plants in them and you could separate them if you wish, but i would prefer to ship these potted to avoid bare-rooting at this time of year. $20 each for these + shipping from Fresno. Cheers! 🤙🏽

My Sabal bermudana ( aka S. blackburniana) with a very heavy crop of berries for the holidays. My S. minor also blooms and sets seeds at the same time each year too. Our local native scrub jays and grey squirrels don't seem to like the berries of either species.

.78" of unexpected rain this morning and the largest amount in one event since August. I'm at a loss for words.

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

Sorry for the long delay but here is the link to donate! https://members.palms.org/2025-save-the-species/ Please see also:

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.

Thank you . Mine is still in juvenile stage , I’m hoping to get a few stems like yours , although it will be a while here . It seems to be moderately fast as it gets going . It has only been in the ground a little over a year . Harry

Wow! Complete black thumb or stupidity. Both unfortunate for the impressive garden. Such a shame. The countless hours spent in the garden, gone so quickly. Frustrating. -dale

Hers a nice bit of hookeri colour for you Jim!

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.

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

That's a beauty! Well done! I was not aware they would change from deep green to silver blue.

Steve, that silver is super! 😄

I miss these from my former San Clemente days

Heres a couple I’ve had for a little over 2 years. Purchased from Floribunda as 1 gallons. I left them out in my semi protected tented pergola last year and it took all summer before they started to look good again. I plan to move them into the garage on cold nights this year. I wish I could grow them in the ground here they are such a pretty palm. I wonder how long they will last growing in pots?

Still hunting?

Get it in the ground where it belongs Bill!

An update here... I was looking at most of mine like this today... I think the one I pictured earlier IS a "orange crush", etc. I noticed I can spot the little scales on two in my greenhouse... and I don't see the spots on the pictured one.. In the greenhouse, One has the "dypsis malcomberi" tag it it from Jerry... Sadly, they are smaller, but I'm still thinking of planting my large one gallon out.....

If that is so Gary - why all this confusion through the years between D. man and the D. mal? Everyone makes it sound like they are easily confused.

Yep. I love the Dypsis genus. Len's plate has it right...

Yes. Plus when the leaves reach 18" or so you can see a little tomentum which you don't on the orange crush..

Nice palm, it looks a lot like Dypsis manajarensis.