Chamaedorea adscendens

[LilikoiLee]

For the Chamaedorea lovers out there, here are three pictures of C. adscendens.

(Please excuse the weeds in the pictures. We need to get our palms in the ground and don't have time to weed).

I purchased 8 of these in 2 gal pots about 3 years ago.

Wevplanted them in the middle of a circle so we could walk around them

and view them from different perspectives and in combination with different adjacent plants.

They have done well here...no pests ever and fertilized only once.

They are now about 2 1/2 to 3 feet tall, but I have read that they can grow to 8 feet.

Is anyone else growing them? I'd like to hear how they are doing in your area and at what pace they are growing.

Lee

[Pedro 65]

Lee, I find the tiny adscendens the "most desirable" of all Chamaedorea's.

The "very thick" grey/green leaves and diminutive size is pleasing to the eye.

Lee, I hope ours "stay"the tiny size they are ( 1 ft), they have been in ground for over 10 years so maybe even the size is "variable" ?

Pete

double up pics due to "sorry u don't have permission 4 that" ....so I reload again, how boring

[Mandrew968]

Love em! A great underused dwarf palm.

[Small palm]

Good looking palms. I plan on buying one of these to plant in the ground.

[LilikoiLee]

Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts and pictures. I have met less than a handful of people here who plant small palm.....even though they make such great 'fillers' between larger palms. Pete, I wish mine looked as good as yours. They've already passed the 1' mark but hopefully mine will stayed at their height.

Lee

[LilikoiLee]

I enjoyed everyone's posts. Let's start one about dwarf palms. I will be out all day but hope to see more 'babies' when I get home.

Lee

[joe_OC]

That's my favorite Chamaedorea

[BS Man about Palms]

I have a planted male and female .... and the weeds too

[MattyB]

They are trouble fee, can take some drought if kept shaded, and can take some sun if kept moist.

[NorCalWill]

I love this palm.

I keep mine in the house, but take it outside once in a while to spray it with water.

It always looks great even if I forget to water it for a month.

It is even starting to send out its first bloom.

Favorite Chamaedorea.

[Josh76]

What's everyone's experience with frost and this palm? According to Dave's Garden it's a 9b palm which could take some cold... especially of course when it has canopy protection. How does it rate to say C. radicalis or C. microspadix?

[Shirleypalmpaws]

We have a cute baby one ...still potted for now... just wanted to comment on how these little palms seem to glow as if plugged into an outlet like a night-light does.

[NorCalWill]

Does anyone know a source for this palm in So Cal ( preferably not all the way down to San Diego).

I'd like to pick up a couple more...

[akamu]

puffy blue goodness definitely an under used palm, great for the understory indeed

[sashaeffer]

Very cool little palm. Who has these for sale..that ships??

[Patrick]

Josh, I have one in my zone 9 garden, but I keep it in a pot. Occasionally we get some cold nights into the mid-twenties (-3 to-4 C) so I will put it in my shed. Otherwise, I keep this palm outdoors always.

This last winter I did not move it indoors at all, and we received maybe 3 nights with a -3 low, that's all. Much less than our usual 2 week cold snaps. I had it under canopy with all my other tender Chamaedoreas and they are all growing great this spring (let's hope I didn't kill them when I repotted them yesterday)

Here's mine:

[tjwalters]

All of those look great! I love this palm - they even throw some color on occasion.

[gob1]

Three adscendens toughing it out in Melbourne...