Palm Colors

[tjwalters]

Happened across this nice page (http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/2876/) on Dave's Garden web site that has a lot of photos illustrating the many different colors occurring in the palm family. Quite a palette!

I don't have many colorful palms, and probably none that can compete with those on the above page, since I'm limited to what I can grow due to our cold winters. I do have a few with some color that I'm growing in pots:

Chamaedorea adscendens:

Hyophorbe verschaffeltii:

Ptychosperma waitianum:

Ptychosperma waitianum:

[Kim]

Oh, colorful palms, always a great subject. We never tire of new red fronds and colorful stems and crownshafts.

My photos are kind of random, but I have some colorful palms. Here are a few of them...

Pinanga maculata

Calyptrocalyx leptostachys (planted a group of five a few days after this photo was taken)

My tallest Dypsis florencei

A small Cyrtostachys renda, no shortage of color

[Kim]

A few more...

Unfolding new leaf on one of my smaller Lemurophoenix halleuxii

Pinanga sylvestris, closeup of new leaves and colorful trunks

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Areca vestiaria maroon leaf, can't get enough of this color -- how many colors in that new leaf? Yummy!

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[realarch]

Beautiful Tom & Kim! Here are a few more.

Hydriastele flabellata

Hydriastele kasesa

Metroxylon amicarum showing a bit of color

[realarch]

Three more.

Pinanga caesia

Heterospathe sp.

Iguanura major

[colin Peters]

Kim and Tim your palms rock as usual, Kim I planted out my Lemur yesterday and hope it has

a new red leaf like yours someday, they are amazing even as a juvenile.

aloha

[NApalm]

What a thread!!! For some people it's stilt palms, some it's spines, but i love different coloured palms. I've been searching here (palmtalk) for different coloured palms and have chased a few up but still plenty more to go. Tjwalters, that page rocks. i found it a month or so ago and i'm glad i did. Best reference tool around for coloured palms. I may be wrong but i think a guy on here wrote it (palmbob?)!

Correct me if i'm wrong, but post #1, third pic down looks alot like a Foxtail. My palms are all too young for much colour, so i can't add much to this thread, but i have this pic from a few weeks ago of some Dypsis lutuscens.

Peace out

[palmtreeguy]

Can't compete with tropical sp. but my recentlly posted Butia or hybrid Butia, lol:

[Cedric]

Realarch this is just up my street wow, hows that for mysterious mood.

Pinanga caesia

[realarch]

Thanks Cedric. I never tire of the new leaves on these palms. From maroon to deep purple, then almost black, to dark green with that Pinanga mottling. Here's a pic of the same leaf the first week of March.

[Mandrew968]

NApalm, the photo is labeled correctly. Typical Ptychosperma tomentum.

[NApalm]

BOOM! This guy just got school'd

[Peter Pacific]

Beautiful palms Tom. Kim yours are wonderful and the P maculatas are very interesting. Tim your Hydriastele in incredible. Great post.

[Patricia-CR]

Keep this thread going with more and more pics!! Super

[Shon]

Remember the days when Kim would show pics from from her Cali garden.

[Bill Austin]

Looked around the nursery for some color this is what I came up with.

pinanga curranii

dypsis remotifloria

caryota ophiopellis

dypsis carlsmithii

hydriastele sp. If you know let me know.

ravenea albicans

dypsis baronii

pinanga sp. south thailand

clinostigma hybred

[Jakkrit]

Here are some from my garden :

Pinanga aristata

Calyptrocalyx albertisianus

Hydriastele affinis

[Central Floridave]

Dypsis saintelucei with a hookeri behind it.

[Cindy Adair]

Great photos everyone. Thanks!!

[Walter John]

Great thread, great shades, great palms, time to tag on.

Dypsis sp. new leaf

Pytchosperma sp. recent leaf now in multi hues as it changes to green

Changing Chambeyronia leaves caught in fade mode from the rich reds to the eventual deep greens.

[tjwalters]

What a thread!!! For some people it's stilt palms, some it's spines, but i love different coloured palms. I've been searching here (palmtalk) for different coloured palms and have chased a few up but still plenty more to go. Tjwalters, that page rocks. i found it a month or so ago and i'm glad i did. Best reference tool around for coloured palms. I may be wrong but i think a guy on here wrote it (palmbob?)!

Correct me if i'm wrong, but post #1, third pic down looks alot like a Foxtail. My palms are all too young for much colour, so i can't add much to this thread, but i have this pic from a few weeks ago of some Dypsis lutuscens.

Peace out

It's most definitely a Ptychosperma. Grown from seed. Same plant as post #1, picture 4.

Nice D. lutescens. I should break down and get one of those.

[Central Floridave]

some other shots

This is a rattan palm

Another look at the hookeri

Rootspine palm responds to flash photography well!

[NApalm]

What a thread!!! For some people it's stilt palms, some it's spines, but i love different coloured palms. I've been searching here (palmtalk) for different coloured palms and have chased a few up but still plenty more to go. Tjwalters, that page rocks. i found it a month or so ago and i'm glad i did. Best reference tool around for coloured palms. I may be wrong but i think a guy on here wrote it (palmbob?)!

Correct me if i'm wrong, but post #1, third pic down looks alot like a Foxtail. My palms are all too young for much colour, so i can't add much to this thread, but i have this pic from a few weeks ago of some Dypsis lutuscens.

Peace out

It's most definitely a Ptychosperma. Grown from seed. Same plant as post #1, picture 4.

Nice D. lutescens. I should break down and get one of those.

Nice palms people, keep those pics comin...

tjwalters, those D. lutescens were planted by the previous owner and nearly got the chop when i moved in, but after some good advice and showing me how to trim back the base of these, i now have alot of time for them. They REALLY respond well to water and fert + mulch. The results are a palm with burgundy red spears, waxy white trunk and cold/drought tolerant, plus they work well as a screen. They get a bad rap cause they're everywhere, but once Joe Public really knows and plants out something like C. macrocarpa's everywhere are we going to think the same about a palm that is rare(ish) now but has potential to be common place due to it's own beauty? I say give in and join the masses people.

realarch, that P caesia is amazing. Just more evidence that supports my hunt for this elusive gem of a palm.

[tjwalters]

Green and white leaf sheath characteristic of Chamaedorea pinnatifrons:

[CharlieM]

[NApalm]

woah, what is that second photo down. the one with blackish trunk? looks awesome

[Daryl]

Some colour from my garden today...

Ptychosperma waitianum

Laccospadix australasica

Hyophorbe indica

OK. this isn't red or pink etc, but is a beautiful shade of green and has a white petiole for contrast

Daryl

[CharlieM]

woah, what is that second photo down. the one with blackish trunk? looks awesome

Thanks Dypsis psamophila we look at them every morning from our lanai while having coffee. They are really a beautiful little palm

[aussiearoids]

cAN't beaT the old spotted thread leaf Calyptocalyx for colour .. but missed out by a few days for the best .

[pilou]

...in my garden...

Calyptrocalyx micholitzii

Calyptrocalyx pachystachys

Calyptrocalyx polyphyllus

Calyptrocalyx sanumb

http://asie.online.fr/palmiers/index-palmiers00.html

Edited June 2, 2012 by pilou

[pilou]

Caryota mitis variegated

caryota zebrina

Cocos nucifera golden yellow

Dypsis leptocheilos

[pilou]

Heterospathe glauca

Hydriastele pinangoides

Latania lantaroides

Metroxylon sagu

My Garden

[pilou]

Pinanga distichia Malaysian form

Rhapis excelsa variegata

Rhapis excelsa cv. limon

Roscheria melanochaetes

[pilou]

Salacca stonolifera

Veitchia X Wodyeta bifurcata variegated

Adonidia merrillii golden

Adonidia merrillii variegated

[pilou]

Areca catechu variegata

Areca vestiara red form

Bismarckia nobilis silver-blue

http://asie.online.fr/palmiers/index-palmiers00.html

[doranakandawatta]

What are the colors today?

Please ,

Post more lovely pics like these in the thread, so we can enjoy watching them in the gloomy days of rainy weeks.

Pilou must have a really beautiful garden...

[Pedro 65]

Fresh pic of a Pinanga sp here with colour, and 2 Decipiens .

Pete

[comic097]

Very nice Pete, one of my favourite threads

[gob1]

Yes, thank you for starting this thread Tom.

A shopping list is magically appearing in my head.....

[PalmnutVN]

Dictyosperma album

Dypsis cabadae

Dypsis madagascarensis

Chambeyronia macrocarpa

Verschaffeltia splendida

Hyophorbe verschaffeltii