royal palm seeds. please

[floridasun]

Anyone have royal palm seeds, please please please.

[Lucinda]

In my area (Manatee County FL), royal seeds (Roystonea regia) aren't ready until about June. I will be happy to send you many if you'll remind me with a pm about then. They germinate easily and are pretty fast growers. Palm snobs notwithstanding, I love royals, too. They've come through this protracted cold and still look, ahem, regal.

Lucinda

[floridasun]

thanks lucinda, ill try to pm you at that time. i love this palm so much and i wish more people would plant it.

Edited March 5, 2010 by floridasun

[Zeeth]

In my area (Manatee County FL), royal seeds (Roystonea regia) aren't ready until about June. I will be happy to send you many if you'll remind me with a pm about then. They germinate easily and are pretty fast growers. Palm snobs notwithstanding, I love royals, too. They've come through this protracted cold and still look, ahem, regal.

Lucinda

Palm snobs? I don't know why anyone wouldn't want a royal in Fl. They are native, self cleaning, really pretty, more cold tolerant than foxtails, hurricane resistant (though not so much as Sabal palmetto), and a way better choice than a queen if the climate is good.

Of course, you've got people who also hate Sabal palmetto, which is a pretty palm if LEFT ALONE. When trimmed they are really ugly and terrible, but when untrimmed they are quite pretty.

[Mark Heath]

Anyone have royal palm seeds, please please please.

If you are still looking,,,, I can tell you were you need to visit which is about an hour south of you and when they're ripe, you can fill a 5 gallon bucket full!! In Stuart i collected about a hundred seeds a cpl of years ago and now this year i will be potting up 2ft tall seedlings! PM me and i'll give you the details as to where you can find about 10 large fruiting specimens all in one place!

Mark

[Moose]

In my area (Manatee County FL), royal seeds (Roystonea regia) aren't ready until about June. I will be happy to send you many if you'll remind me with a pm about then. They germinate easily and are pretty fast growers. Palm snobs notwithstanding, I love royals, too. They've come through this protracted cold and still look, ahem, regal.

Lucinda

Palm snobs? I don't know why anyone wouldn't want a royal in Fl. They are native, self cleaning, really pretty, more cold tolerant than foxtails, hurricane resistant (though not so much as Sabal palmetto), and a way better choice than a queen if the climate is good.

Of course, you've got people who also hate Sabal palmetto, which is a pretty palm if LEFT ALONE. When trimmed they are really ugly and terrible, but when untrimmed they are quite pretty.

The dead leaves trimmed with orchids and bromeliads on the boots is something to behold in my opinion. Yep, the Royals are not seeding yet. I got two infructesences emerging but not opened yet on my only flowering one. The other is barren so far, 15 years after planting as 5 footers.