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Wallichia disticha - is this the end ?

David Clulow

By David Clulow
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David Clulow

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Two of my Wallichia disticha are now fruiting. One is still standing but the other blew down. I have collected a fair number of seeds and sown them. But is this definitely the end for the tree in the photos? It still seems quite healthy but is it really hapaxanthic?

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Karen Contributor

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Hi David,

Welcome to Palm Talk! Your photos are excellent & your palms are certainly happy! Your signs are also a great idea and very informative.

Yes, the W. distacha will die after it blooms! However, it can take quite a while for the seeds to form and for the palm to start looking bad, but it will eventually fade out. Depending on the palm and growing conditions, it sometimes can take a couple of years.

Aloha, Karen

North of Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii

1200' elevation, 200" rain/year

Year round stream with small waterfalls

DoomsDave Grand Master

DoomsDave

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David!

Welcome, from one David to another . . .

Your W. dist is going to seed, then die.

But!

You have a great place to grow lots of new babies.

Want some seeds?

Shoot me a PM . .

Let's keep our forum fun and friendly.

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Rusty on Pine Is. Mentor

Rusty on Pine Is.

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Nothing to add in addition to Karen and Dave...but in some plants that are monocarpic, decline can be slowed by removal of the infructescense, since the plant is the process of sending all photosynthate toward seed production, thus robbing the plant of energy but insuring a huge set of progeny...

...what da heck, wadda ya gotta lose???

...btw, really enjoying seeing what you have grown...hope to see more!

Rusty

Rusty Bell

Pine Island - the Ex-Pat part of Lee County, Fl , USA

Zone 10b, life in the subs!...except when it isn't....

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David Clulow Enthusiast

David Clulow

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Here is a photo I took yesterday of the possibly end of my Wallichia disticha, As you can see it is in full fruit and as it is hapaxanthic it will die quite sooN:

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Some of you liked my side elevation photo of this taxon. But that was before I discovered that in order to get a large photo here, one had to export the photo to PhotoBucket first. Here is this taxon full frontal:

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and in much higher definition than my first effort; here it is in side elevation:

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You can see that this is unusually distichous, in side view it is as narrow as Ravenala madagascariensis

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DoomsDave Grand Master

DoomsDave

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David:

The end of your Wallicia will come, but it might not be real fast.

Sometimes it takes a long while for seeding h-palms to seed and die completely. Caryota can hang in for several years, from what I've heard. (Do correct me, others . . . )

Let's keep our forum fun and friendly.

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