Pinanga disticha

[aussiearoids]

Mikey gave me this palm a few years ago , this pic was taken early 2008.

Just took some more and am amazed at how well it has done .

Main plant has approx 10 cms of trunk and stands 60 cms tall.

It has 8 leaves , but the lower 2 have dead margins .

2 well developed suckers and what looks like a few more forming .

Edited July 21, 2010 by aussiearoids

[aussiearoids]

New leaf a few months ago in daylight .

And now inside .

Winter colour

[ariscott]

Plant them... Michael... Mine is almost like ground cover now... . Well, not super mottled one, but still nice

Regards, Ari

[aussiearoids]

Thinking about planting it on the steep slope that my stilt palm colony will eventually be on.

[Wanderanwills]

Great palm Michael, lovely colours and mottling. I am assuming this is hard to get hold off?

Regards

Stephen

[Dypsisdean]

That looks like the desirable variety that I am lucky enough to have one of as well. I have mine in very deep shade and it looks a whole lot better than one Jeff Marcus has in partial shade.

I just took some well developed stems with aerial roots like yours is demonstrating, and trying to start them. It looks like a snap. Does anyone know how easy (or hard) this is?

[aussiearoids]

I am hoping it is easy Dean , keep us informed on how they do .

Mikey did get a few seeds on one .

I got a pic of a group of seedlings with some extreme variation .

Pale to very dark . It may be posted here a few years ago .

[ariscott]

That looks like the desirable variety that I am lucky enough to have one of as well. I have mine in very deep shade and it looks a whole lot better than one Jeff Marcus has in partial shade.

I just took some well developed stems with aerial roots like yours is demonstrating, and trying to start them. It looks like a snap. Does anyone know how easy (or hard) this is?

Apparently, Mikey has succeeded in the past taking the suckers off. How? I am not too sure... I know he mentioned that he could divide his big clump, or something like that. Pity... he doesn't post much anymore. Maybe I can ask him next time I talk to him...

Regards, Ari

[MattyB]

DeanO, you might try an air layering or pot layering before cutting the sucker off. It'll make the transition period easier for the division and increase your chances of success. I'm learning that you can air layer just about anything. I like bending a branch over and running it through a grove cut in a pot and putting some soil and a rock on top of it. Your propagation is rooting out in it's own pot that way and there's no transplant shock.

[Dypsisdean]

DeanO, you might try an air layering or pot layering before cutting the sucker off. It'll make the transition period easier for the division and increase your chances of success. I'm learning that you can air layer just about anything. I like bending a branch over and running it through a grove cut in a pot and putting some soil and a rock on top of it. Your propagation is rooting out in it's own pot that way and there's no transplant shock.

Yes Matty,

I can't imagine that would be any problem with this palm, considering the way the roots emerge from above ground stems. I was forced to try without air layering as several stems were broken off during some tree trimming, and I just had to stick them in the ground. They had what had to be roots, but are looking a little weak, even though I thought they would have a good chance. I was curious if anyone could get my hopes up.

[aussiearoids]

Dean have you trimmed off any leaves ? I would only leave the newest whole and 2 halves .

PACSOA article ;

* "so the ability to form basal shoots and thereby propagate vegetatively has been advantageous and has proliferated. This clump-forming habit means that the plants do not normally mature, senesc and die as single-stemmed palms do, rather the plant can eventually form a clonal colony, greatly extending its reproductive opportunities. '

Also putting cut plant in some loose sphagnum moss and sealed in a bag would ensure survival .

I do not plan to cut a sucker off mine until it has a few more larger stems.

Here is the more typical form of disticha from 'The Good Doctor'

[Dypsisdean]

Dean have you trimmed off any leaves ? I would only leave the newest whole and 2 halves .

PACSOA article ;

* "so the ability to form basal shoots and thereby propagate vegetatively has been advantageous and has proliferated. This clump-forming habit means that the plants do not normally mature, senesc and die as single-stemmed palms do, rather the plant can eventually form a clonal colony, greatly extending its reproductive opportunities. '

Also putting cut plant in some loose sphagnum moss and sealed in a bag would ensure survival .

I do not plan to cut a sucker off mine until it has a few more larger stems.

Michael, I haven't done anything except placed it in some very nice "sprouting" mix I put together. I'll try and remember to take some pics tomorrow. I think it's been about two weeks already.

What happened, and I hope it helped, was that when I accidently broke them off they remained partially attached to the plant, by a very few strands of the stem, and were just laying on the ground. I left them like that for a couple of months figuring they would die. But they didn't, and it looked to me like they were trying to grow more roots than the other stems. So I figured it was kind of a lazy man's air layer (with no air layer). We'll see.

[Walter John]

Disticha...Delicha...