Copernicia

[Davidl]

C. baileyana

C. macroglossa

Unknown Copernicia

C. ekmanii

[Kathryn]

I have a macroglossa in a pot, but alba is the only one I can put in the ground.

[Walter John]

Here's my only Copernicia, barely alive after a recent bare root transplant into this pot. It's an alba and it's alive.

[Davidl]

C. berteroana

[Davidl]

Wal those will grow much faster in the ground. In a few yrs it will be full of fronds.

[Gtlevine]

My favorite, Copernicia Fallaense.

Gary

[Joe palma]

Nice Copernicias!

Dave's bailyana is looking good.

Gary's fallaense is as well, and one very hard to find else where in SoCal. Pretty old I'll bet. Didn't realize that

they have the blue to them.

And I'm glad to see that Wal's alba is alive!

Slow but worth it.

[Urban Rainforest]

My favorite, Copernicia Fallaense.

Gary

Gary, Your Copernicia Fallaense is a stunner. I think you have it in the perfect spot. For those of you that like blue copernicias C. Prunifera is another nice one. Here is mine. This palm throws more leaves per year than any palm I grow.

Stevo

[Kris]

Dear Friends

Thanks for those terrefic visuals of one og my favouriate species of fan palm...And can you number it for me as to which one has the darkest bule or silvery coloured of all the copernicas ?

I have at present c.hospita raised from seeds from 'Rps'.

And i have c.alba raised from gift seeds from 'Ortanique' for joining as ips member.

they are hardly 4 to 6 months old saplings but they love our hot wet coastal climate... even their grouth rate is fairly decent.soon i will post stills on the repotting work of these varities..

The visual man wants to see more visuals of this variety,hope in days to come more of our members will post stills here of this species.

Lots of love to you,

Kris

And by the way gary your copernica is simply mindblowing... Fentastic !

[SubTropicRay]

One of my favorites.

C. rigida

C. baileyana

C. macroglossa

C. curtissii

C. berteroana

C. ekmanii

C. fallaense

C. cowellii

C. yarey

C. hospita

C. sueroana

C. prunifera

C. alba

C. glabrescens

All of mine are relatively young.

[Jeff Searle]

This is one of my favorite groups of palms, as they do extreamly well here for us in South Florida. Most of these listed are in the ground at the house and a few planted here at the nursery.

Copernicia alba

C. bailyana

C. berteroana

C. cowellii

C. curbeloi

C. ekmanii

C. fallaense

C. gigas

C. glabrescens

C. hospita

C. macroglossa

C. prunifera

C. rigida

C. sueroana

C. tectorum

C. X burretianum

C. X vespertilionum

C. yarey

[Eric in Orlando]

Many of these also have decent cold hardiness and have grown well here, tolerating upper 20sF with little or no damage. These are the ones we have at Leu Gardens;

alba

baileyana

berteroana

cowellii

curbeloi

ekmanii

fallaensis

gigas

glabrescens var. glabrescens

hospita

macroglossa

prunifera

rigida

yarey

x sueroana (hospita x rigida)

x vespertilionum (gigas x rigida)

[Gbarce]

I've got - Baileyana, Fallaensis, Cowelii, Hospita,Macroglossa and Alba.

All of them are still tiny of course since they have only been introduced here very recently and they aren't the fastest growing palms by any measure.

But these are among my favorite palms- so I am willing to wait.

Ask me again how they are doing after a decade.

[Peter]

Love to see some photos, especially from some of the Florida guys.

[Eric in Orlando]

A few from Leu Gardens;

C. alba

C. baileyana

C. fallaensis- this one constantly has potassium deficiency

C. curbeloi

[Eric in Orlando]

C. hospita

C. glabrescens var. glabrescens

C. x vespertilionum

C. macroglossa

[Eric in Orlando]

Some at Fairchild;

C. fallaensis

C. baileyana with 2 young C. fallaensis

C. macroglossa- with and without "shag"

[Eric in Orlando]

C. gigas

C. hospita

[Peter]

Wow!

[Norm]

These C. alba have been in the ground since 1992. I have had a strong attachment to them since. I have planted Chamadorea and Licuala species underneath to take advantage of the shade provided.

[DoomsDave]

Well, you beat me to it, at least as far as pics of teh Big F are concerned.

I've got C. alba, doing well, though a bit slow, on the south side of my place, at the foot of Ravenala Madagascarnesis . . . . .

[Kris]

Dear Eric

Spl thanks for all those Copernica visauls with tags on it...one could learn seeing those stills as what variety it is..and the stills were all preety decent sized too !

And Dear Scott

thanks for the still...and those palms have all grown very tall..

Lots of love,

Kris

[BS Man about Palms]

When I visited Jeff Searle earlier this year, I was impressed by his C. suerona...

[Kris]

Dear Bill

thanks for the visuals,And that palm growing at 007 jeffs garden is really very preety and has some resemblence to C.Fallaensis in leaf type.is this variety heavy trunking type or slender trunk like the c.abla ?

some visuals of the following copernicia :

Copernicia hospita

Copernicia fallaensis

Copernicia berteroana

Copernicia baileyana

Copernicia alba

Love,

Kris

[BS Man about Palms]

Kris,

I would guess medium? maybe 12-18 inches across.

[Kris]

Dear Bill

thanks very much..

Love,

Kris

By the way do any one have stills of this beautiful species of palm kindly share it here..

[ruskinPalms]

I never knew how wickedly cool this genus is until I saw these pictures. Great pics guys, thanks! Copernicia can rival Pritchardia any day in the fan palm department. Heck, aparently there are a lot of Copernicia that would do good in my area unlike Pritchardia which is marginal at best here. fallaensis has to be my favorite.

[John in Andalucia]

I agree with Bill. I'd never even looked at this genus until now, and that one of Jeff's is a real clincher.

[Jeff Searle]

Dear Bill

thanks for the visuals,And that palm growing at 007 jeffs garden is really very preety and has some resemblence to C.Fallaensis in leaf type.is this variety heavy trunking type or slender trunk like the c.abla ?

some visuals of the following copernicia :

Copernicia hospita

Copernicia fallaensis

Copernicia berteroana

Copernicia baileyana

Copernicia alba

Love,

Kris

Kris,

Actually, I'm pretty sure this palm, Copernicia sueroana will form a big trunk similar to C. bailyana or C. fall. There are no big ones around including at Fairchilds Tropical Gardens, so we'll have to just wait and see. But, gauging by it's rate of growth and it's size of leaves compared to the trunk now, I think it will be a big boy when it's fully mature. I just love the yellow striping down the petiole. This is going to turn out to be a really nice Copernicia as it gets bigger.

And, it's very dissapointing when I take small ones to our local sales, it's hard to sell one because people don't know the name or specie.

007

[Kris]

Dear 007

thanks for the time & vivid explaination of your rare copernicia..but i must confess here that even i was total palm novice,when i became a member here.and thought all phoenix as date palms...and hardly knew the name of CIDP.But it seems to me now that plam enthuiests & nature lovers are quite safe to persue our hobby of collecting exotic palms,since few experts like you are doing the ground work of growing these lovely babies in your nurseries and keeping those rare species alive !

And pietty iam living so far from all those beautiful nurseries,where one could find grown-up specimes,than take the trouble of raising them from seeds as few of us have do so living in different continents..

thanks & love,

Kris

[street124]

Dear Bill

thanks for the visuals,And that palm growing at 007 jeffs garden is really very preety and has some resemblence to C.Fallaensis in leaf type.is this variety heavy trunking type or slender trunk like the c.abla ?

some visuals of the following copernicia :

Copernicia hospita

Copernicia fallaensis

Copernicia berteroana

Copernicia baileyana

Copernicia alba

Love,

Kris

Kris,

Actually, I'm pretty sure this palm, Copernicia sueroana will form a big trunk similar to C. bailyana or C. fall. There are no big ones around including at Fairchilds Tropical Gardens, so we'll have to just wait and see. But, gauging by it's rate of growth and it's size of leaves compared to the trunk now, I think it will be a big boy when it's fully mature. I just love the yellow striping down the petiole. This is going to turn out to be a really nice Copernicia as it gets bigger.

And, it's very dissapointing when I take small ones to our local sales, it's hard to sell one because people don't know the name or specie.

007

Jeff, I got one of these at your last sale in a 7 gallon , had no idea what it was but it was at a great price. I bet you have never heard this question before but how long from this size to this size.

[Al in Kona]

To Jeff and others - my understanding is that both C. sueroana and C. vespertilionum are believed to be hybrids. Is this not correct? Somewhere I read that C. suerana was a possible hybrid between C. hospita X C. rigida and that C. vespertilionum a hybrid of C. gigas x C. rigida. I do have them both planted in ground as tiny seedlings and are now only about 1-ft. tall at the most.

Here is my list of Copernicias - all but one is in the ground:

C. alba (in 5-gal. container)

C. cowellii (2)

C. ekmanii

C. fallaense

C. hospita (2)

C. macroglossa

C. rigida (mine is probably a hybrid)

C. x sueroana

C. x vespertilionum

Here's a pic of my Copernicia fallaense . . .

[bubba]

The Genus Copernicia is one of the most spectacular of all Palms.It also seems to be one of the most underutilized.The only downside is the fact that they all are relatively slow growing.On the positive side,they seem to have a remarkable tolerance to low temperatures. Many have taken temperatures as low as 20F. and keep on ticking.

Indigenous primarily to Cuba, the pictures I have seen of them in habitat are mind boggling.(Oct 1963 Gentes Herbarum)The sight of mature Copernicia baileyana's at Fairchild is stunning as well as the mature Copernicia macroglossa's. My small but growing macroglossa,ekamani,and migurama are fun to watch!

[Tampa Scott]

I am growing C.alba,C.macroglossa,C.prunifera and C.alba X ekmanii

[Kris]

Dear Scott

what is the copernica seen in the above still ? And your C.prunifera was it raised from the seeds or bought as sapling from the nurseries ? since i have been watching for these seeds in Rps.com for quite some time but no ads of it yet.. And if you have stills of your C.Prunifera,can you please post those stills here.since it happens to be one of my favouriate too !

thanks & love,

Kris

[Peter]

This is turning into a classic thread.

[bubba]

For more readily available on this Page,look to "A Palm Garden I found" by Plantapalm. Incredible stuff including many mature Copernicia's and other rare things between Melbourne and Vero Beach,Fl.

[Tampa Scott]

Dear Scott

what is the copernica seen in the above still ? And your C.prunifera was it raised from the seeds or bought as sapling from the nurseries ? since i have been watching for these seeds in Rps.com for quite some time but no ads of it yet.. And if you have stills of your C.Prunifera,can you please post those stills here.since it happens to be one of my favouriate too !

thanks & love,

Kris

Kris, The picture is of what I purchased as C.alba X ekmanii. My C.prunifera was purchased a few years ago as a 1 gal. plant and has not done well for me and looks like crap. Scott

[RainForestt Robert]

I recall someone mentioning at the last So Fla plant sale that there was a book on Cuban palms for sale that included photos, maps etc. I would appreciate some more details on this book please.

Robert

[Davidl]

C. glabrescens

I have the following in the pots or in the ground

1.Copernicia alba

2.Copernicia baileyana

3.Copernicia berteroana

4.Copernicia ekmanii

5.Copernicia fallaensis

6.Copernicia glabrescens

7.Copernicia hospita

8.Copernicia yarey

9.Copernicia macroglossa