Question - Areca vestiaria

[junglegalfla]

I have a red leaved form Areca vestiaria. It's barely 2' tall and the leaves are just going pinnate. It's produced a bloom already. Is this common with these? I wouldn't have thought it'd produce so young. In any regard, I'm happy!

[junglegalfla]

Here are some pics

[Davidl]

Is that for sure a Inflorescence ? It looks like a sucker thats growing wild. You may be right but by the pic I could not tell.

[www.dadluvsu.com]

Looks like a second growth point... You've got yourself a clumper!

[junglegalfla]

really? It looks like a flower but hey...never seen one on these before. Still learning.

[Creekside]

She's a clumper... You could see many more of these.

[Logolight]

I don't know about you guys, but in my experience, that new spear looks deformed, and may indicate a vitamin deficiency. I could be totally wrong. But have you fertilized it lately?

[junglegalfla]

Yep, was fertilized & you can actually see some it in that photo. it may be stressed. It lost it's canopy when I had to have a large seagrape tree taken down a couple months back. It's a little more bleached out than I'd like but so far hasn't skipped a beat on frond production. It was only once a recent sheath fell off that I noticed what I naively thought was a bloom.

[www.dadluvsu.com]

I've always seen the new growth points come up wrinkely like that.... I think that is just how they grow. Even the examples in Hawaii had similar funkyness.

[rozpalm]

I agree with everyone else. Has that palm made it threw your winter in St. Pete? I have always heard that the maroon's are very cold sensitive.

[junglegalfla]

It came out of our winter unscathed! It was only when the canopy was lost that the fronds took a little beating. We had a pretty cold winter too. I'm pretty sure I posted photos of it in some of the winter threads where we whine

found the thread from Jan of this year. I guess it has grown!

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?sh...hl=junglegalfla

[Jeff in St Pete]

Bren, that's definitely a new shoot. When I was growing one in Tampa, everytime an old leaf base fell off there would be a squiggly-looking sucker like that underneath. I actually used to pull them off because I wanted a single palm not a clump.