MORE SPINY PALMS

[LilikoiLee]

We didn't have time earlier post the rest of our spiny palms so here they are:

This is our Metroxylon warburgii which we purchased from Jeff Marcus when we couldn’t find an amicorum. Jeff said it was the most beautiful of the Metroxylon
and, without having seen the rest of the genus, we could not disagree. Ours is very healthy and growing fast. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am not a big fan of spiny palms, but the spines on the warburgii are more widely spaced (but probably just as sharp as other palms) and somehow that is less unattractive to me. It is also a beautiful green and has a wonderfully shaped crown.

We bought three Phoenicophorium borsigianum when were just starting to plant our palm garden. I was immediately put off by their large and very sharp spines but loved their gorgeous leaves and orangey-yellow petioles and rachis. We didn’t have any canopy for our shade loving palms and decided the Phoenicophorium
would create it for them so we bought three and quickly planted them close together in a triangle shaped group so that their fronds would eventually
overlap and create an ‘umbrella’. Although they haven’t yet reached the umbrella stage they are so gorgeous that I only notice the spines when it’s weeding time.