palm ID

[fdrc65]

Some years ago I took some seeds in a botanical park in the Canary Island, one sprouted this palm, it should be a kind of syagrus but looking at this palm I'm not so sure of it.

What's your opinon about??

thanks

Edited May 18, 2009 by fdrc65

[gyuseppe]

butia?

[freakypalmguy]

I agree, Butia

[Jonathan]

Yep, looks like a Butia.

[peachy]

Some years ago I took some seeds in a botanical park in the Canary Island, one sprouted this palm, it should be a kind of syagrus but looking at this palm I'm not so sure of it.

What's your opinon about??

thanks

Butias have prickly petioles and I don't see any on this photo

Peachy

[The Germinator]

CIDP? No spines yet, check the next set of leaves to see if the have sharp point at the base of the petiole.

[fdrc65]

I agree, Butia

From the site of the La Orotava Jardin Botanico of Puerto de La Cruz it seems the only butia they have is a butia paraguayensis !

They write "Semillas recolectadas durante el año 2003 para su intercambio en el año 2004" and I was there in december 2003 !!

So it sholud be a Butia Paraguayensis, the seeds are similar..

Butia Paraguayens is a variable specie and petioles are spineless !

As Pacsoa writes "Within the species B. paraguayensis there are several variations like Butia dyerana , Butia poni , Butia pungens , Butia amadelpha , Butia wildemaniana , but now all this variations are grouped into the generical name of Butia paraguayensis with subterranean trunk or with visible trunk and also diferences in the size of the leaves".

I should add sand to the soil

thanks to everybody

[Davidl]

CIDP before the spines.

[tjwalters]

CIDP before the spines.

The leaflets appear to be reduplicate (though it is difficult to tell from the photo), which would seem to rule out any Phoenix.

[gyuseppe]

hello federico .

and a butia, I have many of those palms made with the seeds taken in the botanical garden of naples

[fdrc65]

This palm is growing, still without thorns, not so fast.

could it be a Butia paraguayensis?

bye

Edited September 3, 2009 by fdrc65

[buffy]

Reminds me of a small Jub.