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Update on this guy. It’s now spit into two trunks. Still lots of color. If officially named it “dypsis sp. quaman” until I get a better ID.
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I spoke with the person in charge of the French Guiana Botanical Garden in South America, at the Palmetum de Guiana. They explained that they have two Tahina spectabilis palms, one in the Palmetum garden and another in a private garden in Cayenne. In total, there are three Tahina palms in French Guiana. They also explained that they obtained the seeds from RPS Germany in 2008, and that many palm trees originated from those seeds. Those in Thailand also originated from the 2008 RPS sale. They also mentioned that there is a Tahina spectabilis in Venezuela. These are probably the only palm trees in South America. In our conversation, they also noted that there are Tahina palms in Martinique and Guadeloupe. With all this information, it is very likely that it could flower in the French Guiana garden in 2038, if it flowers within the minimum 30 years required for this highly sought-after palm. Below is a photo of the Tahina plant. Its trunk is thinner, which will likely accelerate its flowering. Hugo Aravena Chile
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H rheophytica and Bismarkia today
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Hey y’all, I had a question. I’ve had this palm for probably 12 years. A great grower, looks good all the time, almost no burned leaves ever. A few years ago, it began flowering. A little sporadically at first, but now it’s to the point where every leaf base has a flower spathe underneath. The upshot is that it flowers like crazy, millions of little flowers falling, all throughout the year. But absolutely no fruit has ever developed. Any thoughts is what might be causing this? It just looks and grows so dang good in every other way, it’s hard to believe that it’s missing nutrients. Thanks in advance!
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Her are mine on an East facing wall about 15 miles inland in SOC/NLA County.... Biggest problem near a pool is the many dropping seeds... If your not too close to the pool that may not be a problem... Mine may have out grown your screening needs, but you could always remove the larger palms and just keep the smaller ones... Mine just keep putting out new seedlings because of dropped seeds... Just don't put in a pepper tree like my neighbor did 5-6 years ago, for privacy... He put it about 1' away from the corner of 4 adjacent neighbor... That tree is huge now and will someday take out all 4 block walls... It makes a mess on my and 1 other neighbors patio and pools, and shades the other neighbors veggie garden... I keep the limbs trimmed back that overhang my yard, but the other neighbors don't... It's now getting too big for me to trim any farther.. Hopefully Edison will come out and remove it like they did my foxtail... Butch
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Here’s my smallest one just slowly truckin along. Planted as a 1G about 4 yrs ago. Definitely getting more size in the trunk area. Hopefully it’s past the slow infant stage these things experience. -dale
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Chrysalidocarpus robustus. Monster!
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15 gallon Brahea Edulis 125.00 15 gallon Brahea Super Silver 125.00 1 gallon Butia Eriospatha 60.00 can ship 3 gallon Chamaedoria Costaricana 60.00 3 gallon Chamaedoria Hooperiana 60.00 3 gallon Chamaerops Humilis Cerifera 75.00 can ship
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A great palm for SoCal
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Dale it's seeding like crazy 🤪 now could be in the hundreds if they all stay on the 2 large inflorescence
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Encephalartos Trispinosis 2-Leaf flush. Super cool how it starts yellowish / pink, then turns purple and finally blue when it gets its farina or sunscreen. -dale
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Iam sure I have a bit colour in the garden somewhere!
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I got mine from Bret too. It didn't look too interesting until it got bigger so I had kind of ignored it. Also, when I planted it, I somehow forgot to put a ripper on it so it had no water for a year or two and didn't grow. Doing good now, one of my favorites.
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Enceph. Blue Arenarius flushing 7 leaves. This plant is as consistent as my green version. It always looks good too. I love the aqua color of Blue Arenarius. Super underrated. That being said, I tried True Blue and it didn’t go well. 👎🏻 (Stupid Lutescens won’t stop multiplying. It’s moving in on the Arenarius real estate 🤬) -dale
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Two different palms have come in over the years as Dypsis (now Chrysalidocarpus) Sp. Ambanja. The first was a multi trunk palm somewhat like Baronii. The second was a larger solitary palm. Mine has just revealed its first ring of trunk and is a really nice looking palm. Has similar characteristics as Leucomalla (white spear and coloring) and Sp. Dark Mealy Bug with the black flecking. But has a unique look of its own. Anyone else growing this?
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Everytime this palm loses a leaf sheath is quite the event. Who needs sun on a rainy day with this in the front yard, It’s really quite the chunk. Tim
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How bout a small ‘BUMP’. So, how are all of the posted specimens doing? Thriving I hope. Here is a photos I took yesterday of a grouping grown from seed back in 2012. The tall palm in the center surrounded by B. condapanna is B. nicobarica. Tim
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A troop of Licuala grandis at Four Arts:
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Even before we opened at 9am, the garden was buzzing with activity. (9 photos) When we finally opened, some familiar faces showed up to fill their wagons with new plants. Dr. Rossi leads the Tour de Freeze, showcasing the palms that performed best and worst during the cold outbreak that dropped the garden to 21.5F. You can't say the Central Florida folks aren't adventurous, with Rhopalostylus planted. The baureri didn't handle the event as well as cheesemanii. A special thanks to @Jeff Searle, @Fishinsteeg234, @howfam, @STLOUISPALMGUY, @CodyM, Clay Porch and Steve Farnsworth for an excellent selection at the sale. Also a special thanks to @PalmJuan, @ChristianStAug, @RiverCityRichard, @flplantguy, @Jblume, @Kekoanui, and all of our new and current members for making the event a success.
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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.
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Caught this very large Sausage tree at Four Arts. No sausage yet but the strings are growing from the tree:
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Verschaffeltia growing faster the bigger it gets.
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San Antonio Botanical Garden This last one is Encephalartos inopinus not heenanii
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This is a Specimen acquired as possibly a Pritchardia hillebrandii. As it grew I don't think that was fulfilled. I don't have Don Hodel's book on Pritchardia to key this out. Given the prevalence of hybrid Pritchardia in the trade here in California, I might not be able to key it to a single species anyway. I don't recall it ever pushing out a successful inflorescence that resulted in flowers let alone fruit. Thoughts on it's id are welcome.
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Just snapped these pics just now. Seeding for the first time. Definitely faster in sun than shade. She gets sun all day now.
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Latania loddigesii at Four Arts:
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Whoa Steve, that's way bigger than mine.. nice job. Mine's split as well & still has a lot of red fur on it. I'm going to repeat what I mentioned in an earlier thread here. The seeds came from the garden of Bill Austin when we visited in 2017. He was giving us a great tour & we stopped by what I recalled was a nice clumping palm, possibly Dypsis psammophila or something like it. Bill reaches down on the ground & scoops up a handful of seeds and says "Here, take these with you". As they grew, they looked nothing like the palm I remembered, so I thought I must have a mistaken memory. A couple months back I noticed that Seabreeze nursery was offering a new hybrid that they were calling the a "Sandy bear"; psammophila x leptichielos (or visa versa). A dead ringer, with one possible caveat: I don't remember any leptichielos in Bill's garden, although I could be wrong. But he did have several beautiful lastalliana growing nearby, that really caught my attention. Anyway, there's the story.. In the meantime, Dypsis sp. "Quaman" has a nice ring to it. 😁6 points
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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…
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Veitchia arecina or Veitchia joannis:
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Maybe technically, but it’s really not the cold that does damage to roots generally, it’s the combination of cold and wet that promotes rot. Free draining mixes are very important in temperate climates I’ve found. For what it’s worth I kept 5 of my 11 sprouted seeds I mentioned earlier in this thread after gifting a few. All planted in the ground but now I’ve dug one to donate to the Melbourne Botajic Gardens soon. They’ve been slow but reliable and trouble free growers with some variability in colour and growth rate. They are now around 7.5 years from germination.
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Listen to @Butch , NO PEPPER TREE ! They will take over. I had one on my hill that kept blocking my view ( all of it ) . I had it trimmed once a year but after a while grew faster . It was the same cost to cut it down as trimming , so…. Yea it’s gone now . I had to drill holes in the stump and fill with rock salt to stop it from growing back. Harry5 points
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As was said , the best fairly tall “screen palms “ are the C. Lutescens but may not look their best in Santa Clarita . They would , if you decide to use them, require copious amounts of water. Several would be required , depending the length you require. I would go about 4’ on center max between clumps . Mine , here in Santa Paula look great but don’t get super wide like they do in more humid climates. My climate is not THAT different than yours. Harry The early morning highlights the golden colour of these palms.
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A couple of good collecter palmscocothrinax eckmanii dypsis proceralicuala fordiana
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Chambeyronia hookeri
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I have Ceroxylon alpinum, quindiuence, and amazonicum doing well for years. No trunks yet but hopefully soon.
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I suspect that if I lived in the tropics, I would be bored to tears with this particular palm, but they are an unusual, elegant addition to a Southern California garden. Here are a couple growing in mine and my next-door neighbors yard.
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Tracy, yours looks 100% like beccariana to me. Great looking palm..5 points
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The base and crown of mine. The crown has a diameter at least 4 meters; it’s a big boy!
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'Tis the season in the Northern Hemisphere. Progress on a little Encephalartos arenarius and the two single lesf pups on a seedling Encephalartos horridus × woodii backcrossed with another identical hybrid.
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A few more seeds of a few interesting varieties. Starting to get into a few cycas species they always are winner for any palm grower, just set and forget and wait while the palms grow, a great sideline plant cycas!
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Bismarckia
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A gaggle of Hyophorbe lagenicaulis at Four Arts:
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Caryota kirriwongensis
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Latania new frond beauty
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