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Aussie Summer seeding

Lowey

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Lowey

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I know most posts at the moment are about the terrible weather in the States and some other locations, and I feel sorry for those members who are having problems, but Australia is having one of its hottest summers on record in most areas and all my trees are seeding at once :)

Zombia antillarum

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Areca vestiaria, Arenga engleri, out of focus

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Bruce

Innisfail - NQ AUS - 3600mm of rain a year average or around 144inches if you prefer - Temp Range 9c to 43c

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_Keith

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From the States, its just the abnormally norm. I guess we don't comment enough, but the warmth down under helps us to see the light (spring) at the end of the tunnel.

In my post I sometimes express "my" opinion. Warning, it may differ from "your" opinion. If so, please do not feel insulted, just state your own if you wish. Any data in this post is provided 'as is' and in no event shall I be liable for any damages, including, without limitation, damages resulting from accuracy or lack thereof, insult, or any other damages

Lowey Experienced

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Previous pic was Itaya amicorum.

Calyptrocalyx polyphyllus

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Hyophorbe verschaffeltii

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Iguanura sp

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Bruce

Innisfail - NQ AUS - 3600mm of rain a year average or around 144inches if you prefer - Temp Range 9c to 43c

Lowey Experienced

Lowey

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Phoenicophorium borsigianum

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Manicaria saccifera

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Schippia concolor

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Bruce

Innisfail - NQ AUS - 3600mm of rain a year average or around 144inches if you prefer - Temp Range 9c to 43c

Lowey Experienced

Lowey

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Carpentaria acuminata

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Neoveitchia storckii

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Bruce

Innisfail - NQ AUS - 3600mm of rain a year average or around 144inches if you prefer - Temp Range 9c to 43c

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cfkingfish

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Carpentaria acuminata

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Neoveitchia storckii

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Bruce-

Thanks for the Neoveitchia in bloom post. This is one of the things that makes this plant so fickle. The male and female flowers will not open on the same bract at the same time, so the first bract has to be pollinated by the males of the second (if they open), and second to third, and so on. That is why you see so few seeds on there. You need a whole grove to get the party going!

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Christian Faulkner

Venice, Florida - South Sarasota County.

www.faulknerspalms.com

 

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Lowey Experienced

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Christian,

Thanks for the reply, usually your comments are spot on, but so far this summer I have collected more than 100 seeds from this tree and a good percentage have germinated, cant wait for the next lot to ripen :)

Bruce

Innisfail - NQ AUS - 3600mm of rain a year average or around 144inches if you prefer - Temp Range 9c to 43c

Daryl Grand Master

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Hi Bruce, good to see all of that reproductive action! Perhaps you have a good pollinator for your Neoveitchia?

regards,

Daryl

Gold Coast, Queensland Latitude 28S. Mild, Humid Subtropical climate. Rainfall - not consistent enough!

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Bruce,

Yes here in the states we are having a bad winter! But thank you for posting your pics of your beautifull palms in bloom. It is nice to have some good news for a change instead of all gloom and doom!

You have some beautifull palms in your collection, show us more!!

Orlando, Florida

zone 9b

The Pollen Poacher!!

GO DOLPHINS!!

GO GATORS!!!

 

Palms, Sex, Money and horsepower,,,, you may have more than you can handle,,

but too much is never enough!!

Lowey Experienced

Lowey

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Post some new pics tomorrow

Bruce

Innisfail - NQ AUS - 3600mm of rain a year average or around 144inches if you prefer - Temp Range 9c to 43c

cfkingfish Grand Master

cfkingfish

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Bruce-

You can still get a good batch of seed, it is just harder with one tree as opposed to others. Did you get 100 off just one bract, or all the spent bracts as shown in the picture?

Christian Faulkner

Venice, Florida - South Sarasota County.

www.faulknerspalms.com

 

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PalmatierMeg Grand Master

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Great photos. You've got palms I've never seen seed before. Thanks.

Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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Lowey

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Bruce-

You can still get a good batch of seed, it is just harder with one tree as opposed to others. Did you get 100 off just one bract, or all the spent bracts as shown in the picture?

Christian,

They came off all the spent bracts from late winter/spring, but the summer ones look to be a lot more promising.

Thanks Meg.

Bruce

Innisfail - NQ AUS - 3600mm of rain a year average or around 144inches if you prefer - Temp Range 9c to 43c

Walter John Grand Master

Walter John

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awesome Bruce. Any chance of some overall pics of the palms ?

Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

Lowey Experienced

Lowey

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awesome Bruce. Any chance of some overall pics of the palms ?

Hopefully later Today Wal, great pics of your new place you posted the other day by the way.

Bruce

Innisfail - NQ AUS - 3600mm of rain a year average or around 144inches if you prefer - Temp Range 9c to 43c

Palm Guy Mentor

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Bruce,

The palms you showed us looked really healthy and mature. How long have you been in the palm game? Also, what is that last palm pictured? Looks like a Dypsis pilulifera??

I too, was hoping for a change from the weather threads! Thanks for these beautiful pics!

Cheers,

Mike

Michael Ferreira

Bermuda-Humid(77% ave), Subtropical Zone 11, no frost

Warm Season: (May-November): Max/Min 81F/73F

Cool Season: (Dec-Apr): Max/Min 70F/62F

Record High: 94F

Record Low: 43F

Rain: 55 inches per year with no dry/wet season

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Ntheastpalms

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Nice photos Bruce thanks for sharing.

Is that a Dypsis sp in the last group of photos?

Matt

Northern

New South Wales

Australia

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All Habitats Tropicals

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Great photos Bruce - thanks for sharing. Looks like you've got a great collection going.

Kylie :)

Kylie

Central Queensland, Australia

Practically on the Tropic of Capricorn - lots of heat and little rain

Lowey Experienced

Lowey

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Bruce,

The palms you showed us looked really healthy and mature. How long have you been in the palm game? Also, what is that last palm pictured? Looks like a Dypsis pilulifera??

I too, was hoping for a change from the weather threads! Thanks for these beautiful pics!

Cheers,

Mike

Mike, I have been growing palms for more than 20 years, in my early days, I always tried to aquire the rarest palms I could, which meant bothering a number of collectors who I knew traveled overseas regularly and collected seed, (something I have never had time to do myself, maybe soon)Often I would have to spend weeks just trying to convince one of these guys to let me buy some seed or seedlings, but over time they got used to me, or sick of me and I managed to aquire many rare and sometimes new species.

I am certaily no expert but I love growing new stuff and I think I always will.

The palm you asked about was given to me by a collector about 22 years ago as a seed, it is supposed to be Dypsis ceracea, I put it in the ground about 15 years ago but it has only started to take off in the last four years.

Bruce

Innisfail - NQ AUS - 3600mm of rain a year average or around 144inches if you prefer - Temp Range 9c to 43c

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BS Man about Palms

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Bruce,

The palms you showed us looked really healthy and mature. How long have you been in the palm game? Also, what is that last palm pictured? Looks like a Dypsis pilulifera??

I too, was hoping for a change from the weather threads! Thanks for these beautiful pics!

Cheers,

Mike

Mike, I have been growing palms for more than 20 years, in my early days, I always tried to aquire the rarest palms I could, which meant bothering a number of collectors who I knew traveled overseas regularly and collected seed, (something I have never had time to do myself, maybe soon)Often I would have to spend weeks just trying to convince one of these guys to let me buy some seed or seedlings, but over time they got used to me, or sick of me and I managed to aquire many rare and sometimes new species.

I am certaily no expert but I love growing new stuff and I think I always will.

The palm you asked about was given to me by a collector about 22 years ago as a seed, it is supposed to be Dypsis ceracea, I put it in the ground about 15 years ago but it has only started to take off in the last four years.

Bruce- Not sure if you are up on it, but according to John Dransfield seeing some of the same palms in Hawaii said they are actually Dypsis tsaravosira. Its a beauty!!

Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time.

"The great workman of nature is time."   ,  "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."

-George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon-

I do some experiments and learning in my garden with palms so you don't have to experience the pain! Look at my old threads to find various observations and tips!

Shon Mentor

Shon

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Mike, I have been growing palms for more than 20 years, in my early days, I always tried to aquire the rarest palms I could, which meant bothering a number of collectors who I knew traveled overseas regularly and collected seed, (something I have never had time to do myself, maybe soon)Often I would have to spend weeks just trying to convince one of these guys to let me buy some seed or seedlings, but over time they got used to me, or sick of me and I managed to aquire many rare and sometimes new species.

I am certaily no expert but I love growing new stuff and I think I always will.

The palm you asked about was given to me by a collector about 22 years ago as a seed, it is supposed to be Dypsis ceracea, I put it in the ground about 15 years ago but it has only started to take off in the last four years.

San Marcos CA

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FRITO

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thanks for sharing your great garden photos! Its nice seeing all your palms going into bloom at once, must be a rewarding thing once they reach maturity.

I like that Dypsis with the elongated crownshaft, pretty cool!

Luke

Tallahassee, FL - USDA zone 8b/9a

63" rain annually

January avg 65/40 - July avg 92/73

North Florida Palm Society - http://palmsociety.blogspot.com/

Lowey Experienced

Lowey

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Thanks Bill, it could be Dypsis tsaravosira but as mike pointed out it looks alot like and behaves like Dypsis pilulifera when it drops an old leaf it is very orange underneath?

Whatever it is I am glad I have it and maybe when it flowers we will be able to tell :)

Thanks Frito

Bruce

Innisfail - NQ AUS - 3600mm of rain a year average or around 144inches if you prefer - Temp Range 9c to 43c

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ariscott

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You didn't get it from Arden, did you?? He did have some D. tsaravosira.

Regards, Ari :)

Ari & Scott

Darwin, NT, Australia

-12°32'53" 131°10'20"

Lowey Experienced

Lowey

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You didn't get it from Arden, did you?? He did have some D. tsaravosira.

Regards, Ari :)

Hi Ari,

No it was not from Arden, it was from Jill Geotze, and unfortunately she has passed away some years ago.

Bruce

Innisfail - NQ AUS - 3600mm of rain a year average or around 144inches if you prefer - Temp Range 9c to 43c

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Davidl

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Nice looking palms and its bringing back memory's of what mine looked like a month ago. thanks for posting

David

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Z4Devil

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Hey, Bruce -

One man's meat is another man's poison. ;) Okay, such temperatures are extremely hot but to be honest: better than this winter in Germany ... 2 weeks before Christmas we´ve got a lot of snow and temperatures of up to minus 20 °C. Until now the winter did not take leave of us, the next cold period we are awaiting next week.

I love temperatures over 30 °C more than those under minus 10 °C.

Good luck and a lot of fun with your palms. :)

Best regards, Verena

Member of the ultimate Lytocaryum fan society :)

Lowey Experienced

Lowey

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Verena,

I was'nt complaining about the heat, I love it, I could not live where you do I am too used to this climate,

Here's some more pics to warm you up.

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Bruce

Innisfail - NQ AUS - 3600mm of rain a year average or around 144inches if you prefer - Temp Range 9c to 43c

realarch Grand Master

realarch

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Great looking collection Bruce, thanks for posting photos of your garden.

Any chance of posting a few pics of the Itaya? Getting partial to some of

these South American species. Thanks.

Tim

Tim

Hilo, Hawaii

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