Chamaedorea "Soledad"

[Austinpalm]

Would like to find seeds or seedlings of this palm.  Also interested if anyone knows what was hybridized with C. radicallis to produce the palm?

 

Thanks,

Clay

[mulungu]

Hello, not sure if you are still looking for these, but I stumbled across an ebay seller currently offering seeds of C. 'Soledad.'

Regards

[Darold Petty]

I have bad news for you two, Chamaedorea sp. 'Soledad' is most likely a fraud, and just a marketing device.  C. radicalis crossed with something to produce suckering stems is the description but Jason DeWees and I now believe that it is just emergent trunk radicalis with multiple plants together.

Let me explain;  On Wednesday, October 19, 2019 a friend and I were at Rancho Soledad to purchase a few pots of two Aloe species.  The nursery was short handed that day and Jesse was the sole employee to work with customers.   While riding along in the golf cart he would get the message that some more important, regular customer had arrived.  Jesse then would park us in a waiting area while he served the other customer.  This happened to us three times, and our attempt to purchase just two species took THREE HOURS rather than 30 minutes.  While we were in the holding area I became so frustrated that I took a handful of seeds from a potted plant with this labeling.   Here is the result.  I obtained 9 plants and potted them three to a pot.  These palms are now 5 years from seed.   Note the characteristic 'knob' at the base of the middle stem.

  During my last visit to Rancho Soledad I asked Jerry's grandson, Hunter, if he knew the parentage, but he did not.     

[Austinpalm]

Thanks to both of you!

[Darold Petty]

If you look at the Ebay listing you will notice that the image does not show the base of the stems at the soil line.  Also, the vendor has only a 97% positive rating.  I have purchased many items on Ebay, and 97% indicates trouble with previous transactions.

  You need to be very careful about Ebay vendors.  While I was looking at the Soledad listing an adjacent listing offered seeds of "Chamaedorea seifrizii, the image showed the wrong sort of spadix, and a trunk at least 8 inches in diameter !   

[Darold Petty]

Bump this thread,  I was hoping that someone in southern California could comment,  and expand this conversation.  

[gyuseppe]

Darold I had about 40 species of chamaedorea I also had these I bought the seeds from a person on the forum, unfortunately they all died due to lack of water
(sorry for the outburst: damned disease)