what are the rarest species u have?

[Explorer]

I have here arround a 100 Trachycarpus takil seedlings. Well they are not that rare anymore I guess. Gardenpalms in Holland grows them by the thousends from Kalamuni seeds.

Alexander

[Cedric]

Some Dypsis or other nice silver red slim crown shafts, clumping. Not sure to plant in the shade or sun we are very humid?

[Palm crazy]

Dypsis coriacea red form… It’s an understory bifid palm, which the emerging leaves are red. Slow grower. http://www.palmpedia.net/wiki/Dypsis_coriacea

[Sabal Steve]

Hemithrinax ekmaniana, Sabal palmetto Lisa, Sabal minor Blountstown Dwarf, Areca catechu Dwarf. Ravenea xerophila

Do you know anywhere outside of FL that I might be able to fine a H. Ekmaniana in either seed or plant form? I live in CA.

[doranakandawatta]

Rare species in Sri Lanka means a species which the small gardeners and nurseries almost never grow.

We don't have big and professional nurseries here!

Most of the plant nursery owners don't know the names and even are not so interested about palms (everybody has enough coconut trees!).

Besides the seedlings we get from seeds we collected in gardens (in and out of the country) we have been lucky to find a Sommieria leucophylla in a remote village-nursery:

We planted it last august:

[Jim in Los Altos]

If we're counting hybrids here, I would say my Syagrus X Butia-Jubaea or Queen Bu Ju.

[Cindy Adair]

Rare species in Sri Lanka means a species which the small gardeners and nurseries almost never grow.

We don't have big and professional nurseries here!

Most of the plant nursery owners don't know the names and even are not so interested about palms (everybody has enough coconut trees!).

Besides the seedlings we get from seeds we collected in gardens (in and out of the country) we have been lucky to find a Sommieria leucophylla in a remote village-nursery:

We planted it last august:

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What a great palm. Yours must be years old too! I germinated 2 out of 10 seeds and they grew to the 2 leaf stage. I should have just stuck at least one in the ground, but I babied them in pots in my greenhouse another year and watched them both slowly die. So back they go to my wish list.

[tikitiki]

you have turned me into one.

L. mapu

L. beccarianna

Licuala beccariana

Licuala platydactyla

Licuala sallahana

Licuala sp. Romber

Can you tell I'm Licuala "groupie" ?

[KennyRE317]

I have a few Chambeyronia Houailou but I'm still barely starting

[akamu]

In ground dypsis pervelii, basselinia eriostachys, mad fox, cyphosperma naboutinense, P.munroi, bentinkia condapana, pinanga wataniana and chambeyronia lepidota still in a pot. Oh ya and my prized washingtonia palm

[Mandrew968]

Licuala sp. pre pak pak, Licuala orbicularis, Licuala sallehana, Licuala cabalionii and Licuala sp. togu budo all doing well.

[Jeff Searle]

you have turned me into one.

L. mapu

L. beccarianna

Licuala beccariana

Licuala platydactyla

Licuala sallahana

Licuala sp. Romber

Can you tell I'm Licuala "groupie" ?

Great to hear!

[joe_OC]

I really like licualas too, but there aren't many that will work in Socal.

[spockvr6]

The rarest in my yard is Washingtonia filifera! How exciting.

Obvsiously....not exactly "rare" in the true sense, but for these parts it is not seen very often.

[Mandrew968]

Licuala sp. pre pak pak, Licuala orbicularis, Licuala sallehana, Licuala cabalionii and Licuala sp. togu budo all doing well.

Also forgot to include my Licuala pumila--The REAL ELEGANS is in the ground and doing well

[Mauna Kea Cloudforest]

Brahea moorei, Trachycarpus princeps and Pritchardia munroii and a coronata x picrophylla is about it, plus some rare ceroxylon and mid elevation chamberyonia Lepidota. Then butia x cocoides and jubaea x syagrus but these are not rare, just really expensive.

[granadahillsmike]

2 of my favorites here in the windy, dry area of the inland north San Fernando Valley. Livistona Alfredii (planted a la BS Man style) and a Brahea Moorei that produced non viable seed for the first time this year.

[akamu]

I like the brahea moorei nice color and form almost cocothrinaxesk

[granadahillsmike]

I like the brahea moorei nice color and form almost cocothrinaxesk

This palm was planted as a big 5 gal in 2010. It's FAST throwing a leaf almost monthly. It's currently holding more than 20 leaves.

[bobchamnan]

I've just got this "Pinanga Ranongensis", which was the name given to me by the seller. Anyone know about this plant?

[LilikoiLee]

Probably a toss up between my semi undivided Calyptrocalyx sp. Kainlas and Sommieria leucophylla which wins for the slowest palm too. Just starting to develop the coppery underside. If my variegated borhidiana was still around I'd throw that on the list too.

Two of my favorites even though I still don't have a Sommieria. They are not easy to come by. Where did you get yours?

[LilikoiLee]

I've just got this "Pinanga Ranongensis", which was the name given to me by the seller. Anyone know about this plant?

Just that it is gorgeous and I wish I had one!

Lee

[LilikoiLee]

Glad to see there are Licuala freeks on here. I'll be posting pictures of some of ours in the hopes that someone will be able to identify them. I find them very hard to do and many of ours are without tags.

Lee

[LilikoiLee]

I am glad to see that there are some palm lovers here. I be posting some of our 'sp' soon in the hope that some of you will be able to identify them for me. Lee