Bamboo Palm...Seifrizii or Microspadix?

[JASON M]

Hey everyone! Today I went out to a nursery in Bronson (one of the best around for variety and volume of plants that will grow here) and I ended up with a Bamboo Palm. None of the plants there are labeled, and I’m a novice with Chamaedorea so hopefully somebody will be able to confirm if it is Seifrizii or Microspadix. Also, any suggestions of where to place it in the yard?

and a little bonus, a very nice and slender Canary Island Date on US 27 in “downtown” Williston. Mature CIDP are very uncommon in this area, but there are a few tall ones in downtown Ocala as well.

[Ben in Norcal]

Seifritzii.  Microspadix looks very different.

[JASON M]

Just now, Ben in Norcal said:

Seifritzii.  Microspadix looks very different.

Thanks! After looking at some more images of microspadix I definitely see that the leaflets are broader.

I was hopeful it was the hardy bamboo but this one should do fine as well.

[Ben in Norcal]

42 minutes ago, JASON M said:

Thanks! After looking at some more images of microspadix I definitely see that the leaflets are broader.

I was hopeful it was the hardy bamboo but this one should do fine as well.

Looks like you might be 8b - I don't know much about FL climate zones, but if you do get that cold, that's probably an indoor plant for you at least part of the time.  Microspadix and radicalis are the only two Chamaedorea I would think have a shot in 8b.

[Ben in Norcal]

44 minutes ago, JASON M said:

Thanks! After looking at some more images of microspadix I definitely see that the leaflets are broader.

I was hopeful it was the hardy bamboo but this one should do fine as well.

Or 9a, but I think that's even too cold for seifritzii - they are a 9b plant.

[Darold Petty]

Microspadix leaflets have a more matte surface, as well. 

[JASON M]

7 minutes ago, Ben in Norcal said:

Or 9a, but I think that's even too cold for seifritzii - they are a 9b plant.

I’ve got a cataractarum that I’ve had outside since I moved in, it didn’t do much growing as it was in a drain-less pot. Finding a spot for this bamboo could be challenging as my “best” spot is the south wall that gets full sun. If anything, I’ll throw a frost blanket over it. Zone pushing has kind of been my game exclusively. I like testing boundaries.. what can I say! 

[Darold Petty]

1 minute ago, JASON M said:

I’ve got a cataractarum that I’ve had outside since I moved in, it didn’t do much growing as it was in a drain-less pot. Finding a spot for this bamboo could be challenging as my “best” spot is the south wall that gets full sun. If anything, I’ll throw a frost blanket over it. Zone pushing has kind of been my game exclusively. I like testing boundaries.. what can I say! 

I used to be very conservative about zone pushing, but now my position is that "We will never learn anything new by heeding the conventional wisdom".   So what, if the conventional wisdom is correct 9 times of 10?

  We seek the tenth, exception to the rules.   I am so old that I remember when no one knew about the frost hardiness of Dypsis decipiens.  

[Ben in Norcal]

1 minute ago, Darold Petty said:

I used to be very conservative about zone pushing, but now my position is that "We will never learn anything new by heeding the conventional wisdom".   So what, if the conventional wisdom is correct 9 times of 10?

  We seek the tenth, exception to the rules.   I am so old that I remember when no one knew about the frost hardiness of Dypsis decipiens.  

Totally, Darold!  You have seen my yard - very little of what I have "grows here." 

[JASON M]

57 minutes ago, Darold Petty said:

 

  We seek the tenth, exception to the rules.   I am so old that I remember when no one knew about the frost hardiness of Dypsis decipiens.  

D. Decipiens has been on my radar lately!! My previous years I never understood the general Dypsis PT obsession, but Decipiens hardiness and appeal has me wanting to try it here!