Carpoxylon macrospermum

[PalmatierMeg]

I've really been on a roll with the camera the last couple days. I hope no one minds. I've spent the last 2 weeks indoors at my doctor's orders, and the weeds are overtaking the yard but it's too hot spend hours pulling them up. So I wait for dry season. Once I get back to work outside as well as inside (my husband has cancer), I may not have time for frou-frou fun. Anyway, this is my Carpoxylon macrospermum and it's doing great. I tried this species twice before and both croaked. This one was my third and last try. I got it as a 1g from Ellis Brown of Redland Nursery, grew it up a few years before planting it.

Carpoxylon macrospermum

 

[Zeeth]

Very nice! And I'm sure no one minds that you're posting pictures, that's what most of us are here for to begin with!

Nice palm, this is one of the 3 that i think of as the "Ken Johnson trifecta": Kentiopsis, Satakentia and Carpoxylon. They're all crownshafted, adaptable to the Florida climate and with a moderate growth rate. It's seems to be the hardest one to find of the 3 though. I was sent a germinated seed last year but it got smashed up in-transit so it didn't end up surviving. 

[Palmaceae]

Looking great Meg, I have one that I planted 1 1/2 years ago. Doing good, hopefully it will do as well as yours.

[Bill Austin]

Looks great Meg very healthy, best to you and your husband I am on that same road with my wife.

[PalmatierMeg]

8 minutes ago, Bill Austin said:

Looks great Meg very healthy, best to you and your husband I am on that same road with my wife.

Sorry to hear that, Bill. All my thoughts & prayers to both of you.

[foxtail]

3 hours ago, PalmatierMeg said:

I've really been on a roll with the camera the last couple days. I hope no one minds. I've spent the last 2 weeks indoors at my doctor's orders, and the weeds are overtaking the yard but it's too hot spend hours pulling them up. So I wait for dry season. Once I get back to work outside as well as inside (my husband has cancer), I may not have time for frou-frou fun. Anyway, this is my Carpoxylon macrospermum and it's doing great. I tried this species twice before and both croaked. This one was my third and last try. I got it as a 1g from Ellis Brown of Redland Nursery, grew it up a few years before planting it.

Carpoxylon macrospermum

 

 

2 hours ago, Palmaceae said:

Looking great Meg, I have one that I planted 1 1/2 years ago. Doing good, hopefully it will do as well as yours.

And... I love them. Mine is still potted and waiting to go in full sun, maybe in 5 years - pics tomorrow if the weather let me.

@Palmaceae Pastor, it's a livistona saribus the one at the left?

[foxtail]

1 hour ago, Bill Austin said:

Looks great Meg very healthy, best to you and your husband I am on that same road with my wife.

 

1 hour ago, PalmatierMeg said:

Sorry to hear that, Bill. All my thoughts & prayers to both of you.

My prayers for both families.

[Pedro 65]

1 hour ago, foxtail said:

 

My prayers for both families.

 

3 hours ago, Bill Austin said:

Looks great Meg very healthy, best to you and your husband I am on that same road with my wife.

Ditto, and Meg yr Carpoxylon is looking divine  and third time lucky could be a" good omen" for your husband and Nong. 

All best to you all.     Pete

 

                                                                                                       

 

[foxtail]

Here's mine

This thing have an aggressive roots system. 

Edited August 24, 2016 by foxtail