Your Lytocaryum insigne

[Pal Meir]

Please post a pic of your nicest (or only one) Lytocaryum insigne (Syagrus insignis)!

This here is my favorite:

[Alberto]

I have two variants of this palm.  Some has more black fibers then others.

 Tomorrow I´ll posts some pics

[Pal Meir]

This L insigne is of the more slender type and looks more like L weddellianum, but in contrast to the latter it had eight strap leaves, the last one with a blade 83 cm long:

[Pal Meir]

None else?

Altitude 513 m (Google Earth)

[LJG]

Hard to get a good pic, but here is my largest in the ground. 

[Pal Meir]

32 minutes ago, LJG said:

Hard to get a good pic, but here is my largest in the ground. 

 

@LJG That‘s looking very healthy. Do you know how old it is?

[Pal Meir]

Here my ten babies when they were still together in 2015:

How may the other 8 of those do now?

It is now 4:45 h MEST in the early morning and 25.3°C warm; as it is still dark I had to use a flash reflecting the silvery undersides of the leaflets:

 

[LJG]

2 hours ago, Pal Meir said:

@LJG That‘s looking very healthy. Do you know how old it is?

Thanks. Every year looks better. It’s from the same seed run as yours. So same age. 

[Josh76]

Here is mine in London. This is the one you kindly sent to me many years ago @Pal Meir 

[Pal Meir]

33 minutes ago, Josh76 said:

Here is mine in London. This is the one you kindly sent to me many years ago @Pal Meir 

Yes, it is N°1409 (*2014-03-12), the 1st from right on the pic below (2015-10-10). Do you keep it outdoors in a garden?

[Josh76]

3 hours ago, Pal Meir said:

Do you keep it outdoors in a garden?

I planted it outside earlier this year because I was struggling to stop the leaves yellowing. If we get a cold winter I will either protect it well or dig it up again. I don't know of anyone else trying this outside in the UK, but they're supposed to be relatively hardy.

[Pal Meir]

16 hours ago, Josh76 said:

I planted it outside earlier this year because I was struggling to stop the leaves yellowing. If we get a cold winter I will either protect it well or dig it up again. I don't know of anyone else trying this outside in the UK, but they're supposed to be relatively hardy.

»… supposed to be relatively hardy.« Be careful, there don‘t exist any reliable data, as far as I know. It is only because they can grow at altitudes of nearly 1800 m (in the tropics, e.g. -20.52 -41.10).

[Pal Meir]

On 6/7/2020 at 12:36 AM, Alberto said:

I have two variants of this palm.  Some has more black fibers then others.

 Tomorrow I´ll posts some pics

…?

[Foxpalms]

On 8/1/2020 at 8:03 PM, Josh76 said:

Here is mine in London. This is the one you kindly sent to me many years ago @Pal Meir 

Is this palm still growing outside and well?

[Josh76]

1 hour ago, Foxpalms said:

Is this palm still growing outside and well?

I'm very sorry to say that it is no longer alive. It's first winter in the ground it scorched badly even though it had overhead protection and we didn't get much cold at all... and the following year it never took off again and eventually gave up in late summer despite all my efforts to save it. Sorry Pal 😭

[Foxpalms]

1 minute ago, Josh76 said:

I'm very sorry to say that it is no longer alive. It's first winter in the ground it scorched badly even though it had overhead protection and we didn't get much cold at all... and the following year it never took off again and eventually gave up in late summer despite all my efforts to save it. Sorry Pal 😭

Unfortunate, what temperature did it get down too?

Edited September 22, 2022 by Foxpalms

[Josh76]

On 9/22/2022 at 10:50 PM, Foxpalms said:

Unfortunate, what temperature did it get down too?

No lower than -3ºC and it had overhead protection. I guess these palms don't have the hardiness that some websites suggest. Or perhaps it wasn't mature enough. Either way I was sad to lose it 😭

[Foxpalms]

10 hours ago, Josh76 said:

No lower than -3ºC and it had overhead protection. I guess these palms don't have the hardiness that some websites suggest. Or perhaps it wasn't mature enough. Either way I was sad to lose it 😭

I might still try one here, what was the soil mix was it planted In they seem to have very specific requirements regarding the soil from what I've read.