rare palms and unaware owners

[Mr.SamuraiSword]

Anyone have any stories of people who have rare palms and their owners didnt realize it? or even palms that arent usually in that area but the owners dont notice. ex a sabal in california or a jubea in florida

Edited January 26, 2017 by Mr.SamuraiSword

[Pando]

There was this coconuttt....

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/46003-is-this-a-coconut-or-am-i-dreaming/&do=findComment&comment=709118

 

[Matt in OC]

A homeowner down the street had something unique looking poking over the fence. One day last year I drove by why he was out so I stopped to ask him about his palms. He started telling me about his queen palms! I said, no, THAT palm! And he told me how he bought it as a small one gal. from a palm nursery in Anaheim several years ago that was going out of business, planted it, and didn't really do all that much to it.

I think it's a D. mahajanga type, but he had no idea. Other than this palm, he has a nice grouping of mature Foxtails which are relatively rare for our area and sago palms, but that's it.

Not a SoCal coconut, but a neat surprise.

[DoomsDave]

Here's the classic picture:

[PalmTreeDude]

Some people just say palm trees are palm trees and don't even bother knowing the species or anything about it.

[GottmitAlex]

Here is a Coconut growing in cold Corona, CA which the general consensus here in PT believes it is owned by an unaware person.

 

 

 

[PalmatierMeg]

Some years back a Cape Coral PTer drove past a vacant for-sale house that featured a fabulous variegated Roystonea regia beside the front walk. He posted photos. He & I speculated on the possibility of digging up the variegated royal and replacing it with a standard palm because we were sure the owner and realtor had no idea what a treasure they had. BTW, we were all talk and no action, so the variegated palm resides there still to the best of my knowledge.