Zone 10 Palms in the Orlando Area Mega Thread

[pj_orlando_z9b]

On 6/8/2022 at 11:04 PM, RedRabbit said:

Where exactly are those tall ones located?

Southern part of Lake Conway in Belle Isle. 

[pj_orlando_z9b]

Trimmed up my coconut. 6 ft of clear trunk now. I can get lots of coconuts but not to maturity. 

[donalt]

they look young, still. what happens if you leave the nuts on the tree longer? (Do they ever ripen)

 

[pj_orlando_z9b]

On 7/31/2022 at 8:34 PM, donalt said:

they look young, still. what happens if you leave the nuts on the tree longer? (Do they ever ripen)

 

These were about 15 months old.  I think my winters make them unable to reach maturity.  A really warm winter could change that.

[Borderline Tropical]

Hello everyone, my first time here on Palmtalk and a new resident of Orlando! I snapped these photos of coconuts and royals around the Oak Ridge area. Last coconut image is near Kissimmee around Osceola Pkwy. 

[donalt]

welcome to PalmTalk! Great sightings!

[Fishinsteeg234]

A few days back I ran across a large Caryota obtusa in Windermere, looking a little disheveled but growing big in full sun. Also drove by a driveway lined with a dozen trunking coconuts in rural Christmas area, and a large Ficus benghalensis in S Orl. that wants to swallow the house if not maintained like it has been been. 

[kinzyjr]

@Borderline Tropical Welcome to PalmTalk!  Thank you for sharing!

@Fishinsteeg234 Do you happen to know how long those coconuts have been in the ground?  They look pretty healthy.  Especially considering the image below from Christmas after a relatively uneventful 2021 winter:

[pj_orlando_z9b]

On 8/4/2022 at 9:25 PM, Borderline Tropical said:

Hello everyone, my first time here on Palmtalk and a new resident of Orlando! I snapped these photos of coconuts and royals around the Oak Ridge area. Last coconut image is near Kissimmee around Osceola Pkwy. 

Welcome. Great finds. 

[Fishinsteeg234]

11 hours ago, kinzyjr said:

@Borderline Tropical Welcome to PalmTalk!  Thank you for sharing!

@Fishinsteeg234 Do you happen to know how long those coconuts have been in the ground?  They look pretty healthy.  Especially considering the image below from Christmas after a relatively uneventful 2021 winter:

@kinzyjr I’m not sure how long in the ground, but one of them was fruiting. I’ll try and keep up with them overtime when I’m in the area. 
 

[Plantking165]

Thats awesome. Hopefully one day mine will fruit too.

[Eric in Orlando]

Here is a couple Howea forsteriana growing at Disney's Epcot. They are in the jungle next to the Mexican pyramid. They used to be in a lot of shade but some trees were removed several years ago. It is hard to see but they have about 4-5ft of clear trunk.

[Eric in Orlando]

[Eric in Orlando]

Also at Epcot...Satakentia at the old Universe of Energy building which has been remodeled into a Guardians of the Galaxy ride. Also a Pandanus utilis. Good view in a few years from the monorail.

[Borderline Tropical]

Hello new friends, today I visited the famous I-drive coconut palm. It is flowering prolifically and hope they develop into coconuts if they don't trim them! 

[kinzyjr]

2 hours ago, Borderline Tropical said:

Hello new friends, today I visited the famous I-drive coconut palm. It is flowering prolifically and hope they develop into coconuts if they don't trim them!

My favorite Central Florida coconut palm.  They have to trim them as this is a high foot traffic area, unfortunately.

[Eric in Orlando]

A new planting a few blocks south of Leu Gardens...

[pj_orlando_z9b]

On 8/23/2022 at 8:42 AM, Eric in Orlando said:

A new planting a few blocks south of Leu Gardens...

Wow, they went for instant impact. 

[pj_orlando_z9b]

I saw the coconuts at Kaley and Orange today. Looks great, one of them has a good sized trunk. The bad news is they're under power lines so expect the city to hack them or find a way to remove them. 

[pj_orlando_z9b]

On 8/17/2022 at 2:03 PM, Borderline Tropical said:

Hello new friends, today I visited the famous I-drive coconut palm. It is flowering prolifically and hope they develop into coconuts if they don't trim them! 

They always remove the fruit

[Borderline Tropical]

A trio of coconuts at Jason's Best Asian Market directly on 192 in Kissimmee. The tallest one is fruiting.

[Midnight Gardener]

A new planting of what I assume are Cunninghamiana along Colonial in the Mills 50 area. They are north facing so might not be the best location for them but good to see this species being utilized!

[pj_orlando_z9b]

This is a better pic of the coconut visible from University heading west just past the Hall Rd intersection. 

[kinzyjr]

Found a potential 2010 survivor coconut in St. Cloud.  Looking back in time on Google, it appears that it survived at least the Dec 2010 freeze:

https://tinyurl.com/37mz9j89

https://tinyurl.com/yckwaefz

[Fishinsteeg234]

Here is another large size coco I found peaking out from behind a house located in the Conway area, metro Orlando. Backyard is on a small lake. 

[Fishinsteeg234]

Google street view of a group of Veitchia‘s  growing along Hoffner Ave, Orlando. This group has also been seeding for the past few years, as a bunch of seedlings are growing under it alone the sidewalk in the bushes. This is an excellent microclimate roadway between the Conway chain of lakes. 

[Bkue]

On 9/18/2022 at 9:55 AM, Fishinsteeg234 said:

Google street view of a group of Veitchia‘s  growing along Hoffner Ave, Orlando. This group has also been seeding for the past few years, as a bunch of seedlings are growing under it alone the sidewalk in the bushes. This is an excellent microclimate roadway between the Conway chain of lakes. 

I feel there should many more of the palms listed in this thread.  The problem is not many are nuts like us on here. They are not readily available. In fact, I have spent way to much time getting what I have and have “on order” a couple dozen more. Unless I want to make a trip down south I cannot get anyone to get what I need. I have to keep picking them off one by one as I find them. 
 

I need 8 royals with 3-10ft gw, 1 arenga engleri, and 20 archontophoenix cunninghamiana, livistonia decipiens, cocos, and a couple hundred Dypsis lutescens. 
 

anyone that has a contact to help supply to Oviedo fl let me know. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Fishinsteeg234]

@Bkue try getting ahold of MB Palms. contact is on their FB page and website. Commercial grower located in South Orlando. 

[Borderline Tropical]

Large royals at Williamsburg Publix on Central Florida Pkwy. 

[Merlyn]

I took a trip to Clermont to go biking in the hills, and saw this pair of Cocos on Sadler Road in Tangerine/Zellwood:

https://www.google.com/maps/@28.747541,-81.6325244,3a,75y,359.08h,89.94t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLifCtoiWnzgg1ME-uNHp7g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

They weren't there in the Street View of 2019, it looks like maybe the house was sold and the new owners put in the white fence, a screen enclosure, a bunch of bananas and other tropicals.  They looked really good in person, but I think they'll be short-lived.

[pj_orlando_z9b]

Hope everyone fared well during Ian. We got pummeled in Belle Isle with 15" of rain and over 6 hours of the heaviest squalls. Landscape damage was minor. Lost 3 coconut fronds and my beccariophoenix alfreddii was pushed over. I was a little surprised by that but their canopies are so thick it acts like an umbrella. 

[Eric in Orlando]

This property is just west of downtown Orlando at the corner of Westmoreland and Central. A couple dozen trunking Coconuts were planted a couple years ago. I was by there a couple of days before the hurricane. Several are loaded with fruit.

[kinzyjr]

4 hours ago, Eric in Orlando said:

This property is just west of downtown Orlando at the corner of Westmoreland and Central. A couple dozen trunking Coconuts were planted a couple years ago. I was by there a couple of days before the hurricane. Several are loaded with fruit.

From the Google Street View, it looks like they were planted last year some time. 

The Jan. 2021 view doesn't have any of the plants yet.

[Plantking165]

Huh interesting that's a big change in a short time hopefully those cocos survive for years to come. 

[Jimbean]

I found this royal volunteer about a half a mile from these palms, on the corner of 528 and International drive. 

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@28.4193507,-81.4603444,3a,75y,208.98h,83.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVJtF3X4eRlfFxJrxzAek6g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

[Fishinsteeg234]

1 hour ago, Jimbean said:

I found this royal volunteer about a half a mile from these palms, on the corner of 528 and International drive. 

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@28.4193507,-81.4603444,3a,75y,208.98h,83.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVJtF3X4eRlfFxJrxzAek6g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

I hope it is a Royal. In your photo there appears to be a Sabal palm seed 1” from the seedling (not the acorn, but the small black seed). I’ve made the misidentification mistake before with Sabal seedlings popping up right under prized palms. Sabal seem to spread with the wind around here. 

[Jimbean]

32 minutes ago, Fishinsteeg234 said:

I hope it is a Royal. In your photo there appears to be a Sabal palm seed 1” from the seedling (not the acorn, but the small black seed). I’ve made the misidentification mistake before with Sable seedlings popping up right under prized palms. Sables seem to spread with the wind around here. 

I've propagated hundreds of royals and It's definitely a royal.  The problem is that it will probably get mowed over since it's on the Days Inn/I-Hop property. 

[Jimbean]

38 minutes ago, Fishinsteeg234 said:

I hope it is a Royal. In your photo there appears to be a Sabal palm seed 1” from the seedling (not the acorn, but the small black seed). I’ve made the misidentification mistake before with Sable seedlings popping up right under prized palms. Sables seem to spread with the wind around here. 

Here is the location of the seedling

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@28.4234895,-81.461349,123m/data=!3m1!1e3

[kinzyjr]

@Fishinsteeg234 + @Jimbean I'm in this area frequently - my home away from home.  Not 100% sure on the seedling, but it wouldn't surprise me if there were volunteers in this area given the number of large Royals in the area.

Interestingly enough, some deciduous trees had fall color on World Center Dr and coming up International Drive from the south when I was up there Monday.  The area above FL-528 is known to have a strong UHI (+7F), but the area below the toll road tends not to resist radiational cooling as well.

[Eric in Orlando]

Here are the coconuts in Sanford, just east of downtown and on the south side of Lake Monroe/St. John's River. The street is still flooded from Hurricane Ian.