Name this palm game

[GTClover]

Wow after 14 pages, I'm starting to get this game.... The yellow palms are Yellow Queen Palms!

[MattyB]

that's an interesting one Nick. Cyphophoenix nucele?

[nkbish]

that's an interesting one Nick. Cyphophoenix nucele?

good try here is the photo showing more

[MattyB]

ahhhhhh, now I know. It's Alloschmitia/Basseliana glabrata!

[virtualpalm]

Thanks for bumping this topic, Ken. Here is a shot that I just took yesterday. Not too many people get to see this in person.

Jody

[nkbish]

ahhhhhh, now I know. It's Alloschmitia/Basseliana glabrata!

Very nice

[Ken Johnson]

Matty is so good its scary but no where near as scary as Jody's next guess. Man that thing is weird. What is this a Halloween joke?

[virtualpalm]

Matty is so good its scary but no where near as scary as Jody's next guess. Man that thing is weird. What is this a Halloween joke?

No joke, Ken... come by the nursery and see it for yourself!

Jody

[Mandrew968]

Jody is that a Heterospathe?

[virtualpalm]

Nope. Think rarer (at least specimens large enough to flower here in south Florida).

Jody

[Mandrew968]

Howea?

[sarasota alex]

Manicaria saccifera?

[virtualpalm]

Nope and nope.

Jody

[Mandrew968]

I'm on to educated guesses now... Orania? That burlap on the petiole base looks a lot like an Arenga...

[virtualpalm]

Nope and nope.

Jody

[Mandrew968]

I wasn't guessing Arenga but now I don't have to... time to pull out the shotgun: Syagrus, Butia, Attalea, Beccariophoenix?

[virtualpalm]

Nope, nope, nope, and nope.

Jody

[sarasota alex]

Marojejya darianii?

[virtualpalm]

Nope.

Jody

[Walter John]

Pritchardia ?

[Stevetoad]

trachycarpus martianus

[virtualpalm]

Nope and nope.

Jody

[virtualpalm]

HINT: I already mentioned that the palm in question is rarely seen in cultivation large enough to flower (at least in the continental US), but I will go ahead and provide another hint -- which is that this is also one of the few palms with entire pinnate leaves.

Jody

[Ken Johnson]

Pelaogdoxa? I dont even know if that is close but it came to my mind first thing in the A.M. here.

[virtualpalm]

Exactly right, Ken. Good guess. The palm in question has about 6 feet of trunk and this is the first flowering.

Jody

[Mandrew968]

I would have NEVER guessed that--and I just got back from a friend's house to check on the one I planted for him! Jody, is it in a pot? What's the sun exposure on it?

[virtualpalm]

It is in a pot (probably 200 gallon) in the shadehouse at the nursery.

Jody

[virtualpalm]

Anyone up for resurrecting the guessing game?

Jody

[Stevetoad]

something you made in your garage???

[Ken Johnson]

W. distica

[virtualpalm]

Nope and nope.

Jody

[Ken Johnson]

Coccothrinax

[virtualpalm]

Yes, Ken. Which species?

Jody

[XYZ]

Manicaria

[virtualpalm]

Which one are you guessing, Jay? My most recent photo is a species of Coccothrinax.

Jody

[sarasota alex]

C. montana?

[daandernach]

Coccothrinax boschiana?

[virtualpalm]

No and no... but close.

Jody

[sarasota alex]

Let me try to be a Sherlock Holmes here. You said "close" to both C. boschiana and C. montana. What do they have in common? They are both endemic to the island of Hispaniola. Well if that's true, then I know where to look. But wait - there are 9 species of Coccothrinax native to Hispaniola and 8 of them are endemic. So now with some help from the Google Image Search I am going to declare this a Coccothrinax ekmanii! How did I do Jody?

[virtualpalm]

That was some excellent deductive reasoning there, Alex! You are correct that this species is from Hispaniola, and it is, in fact, endemic. But it is not C. ekmanii.

Jody