Salacca magnifica

[metalfan]

I can see some of you who have seen my photos of my Salacca ad nauseum from elsewhere having a real "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane"-type moment here, but bear with me.

This is, without a doubt, my most favorite palm. Its possible that in the future, when some of my infant palms grow up, that they might displace the Salacca at the top spot in my heart, but Que Sera Sera, whatever will be will be and right now this is my love.

The reason being, it seems to be fast enough growing that I may actually have a hope of seeing it get really really big in my lifetime.

[Alicehunter2000]

Gina- where in Florida are you?

[aussiearoids]

they are tough , a mate had several get flattened by severe cyclone Larry   , and had to chop them down to stumps .

On a recent visit , there they were back with a vengance.  

Know I have a pic but cant find it !

[Rusty on Pine Is.]

Wow, what a beautiful palm!

How about more pics of your garden?

[SubTropicRay]

Gina,

Nice looking specimen.  I have mine in shaded containers and haul them into my greenhouse when temps are forecasted below 50F.

Ray

[metalfan]

I live in the great white north of Florida. Hint: if anyone cares, (I don't) we are the National Champions in basketball and football, LOL.

This palm just speaks to me. I love the spines and I love the way the leaves are serrated on the edges. Its just so cool!

[Eric in Orlando]

Ray, I planted a 3ft specimen out last summer. It made it through mid 30sF this past winter without any problems. This photo was taken in Jan.;

http://new.photos.yahoo.com/leu4510....135

[Trópico]

It looks good, and even better with those bromeliads! It'd be my favorite as well if I had one that big! Thanks for sharing.

[bgl]

Gina,

Salacca magnifica is a relatively fast growing palm and definitely spectacular when it gets up in size. This one was planted in Oct 1998 from a 7G pot. It was about 6 ft tall at the time. Today it's about 20 ft.

Bo-Göran

[metalfan]

Now THAT'S what I'm talking about!!!!! Love it!

[Utopia Palms]

Hi Gina

I must first say you have a very good selection of palms and other nice plants, with Salacca magnifica if you take the pups off you will get the 5m long leaf, but if left to clump up you will not get as larger leaf as ones seen in photos in some books, there are 6 other entire leaf Salacca’s, One of the best one to eat is a cross between Salacca affinis x

 Salacca wallichiana it has red fruit and it’s very nice to eat!

Clayton

[PalmsZA]

Hi Gina and all

I love these too! They seem to be stronger to cold that what one would expect. Here is a lovely clump from my mates place!

Cheers

Dennis

PS love the Billbergia's!

[aussiearoids]

(Utopia Palms @ Jul. 18 2007,03:25)

QUOTE

with Salacca magnifica if you take the pups off you will get the 5m long leaf, but if left to clump up you will not get as larger leaf as ones seen in photos in some books, there are 6 other entire leaf Salacca’s, One of the best one to eat is a cross between Salacca affinis x

 Salacca wallichiana it has red fruit and it’s very nice to eat!

Clayton

Clayton , do you mean kill the suckers ?

I have heard that its very hard to remove the suckers and get them to live . Been trying to get one of these palms for years now . Mike E has seedlings still I hope .

It makes sense that it would get larger if kept to 1 plant .

Just like the variegated spineless pandanus , remove all the suckers and you will get the giant stilt roots much faster .

[Utopia Palms]

Hi Michael

Yes its very hard to keep the pups alive but if you take these off in your rainy season you should get a few to take dip them in some vitamin B, before replanting this should improve the number that take for you, if Mike has none left just let me know and I will send a few more up! Also you should call in and see him he has just got some fantastic broms so call in as soon as you can and see if you can get him to list some photos he needs a little kick up the bum if you know what I mean.  

Clayton

[metalfan]

Wow I would be extremely scared to try to remove a pup from this palm! Those spines are truly wicked! WHat's the best method????

I love Billbergias. I think they are probably my fave brom genus. I like the colors and markings.

I love neoregelias that keep color too, as opposed to ones that are green until blooming

[tank]

Gina,

How do you protect it during the winter in Gainesville?

I know last winter it got down to ~24F in my yard.

Jason

[Dave-Vero]

A wonderful "English garden" sort of yard in Vero Beach makes good use of Neoregelias planted by color--they have different-colored neos rather than different-colored flowers.  It's a totally different look from Gina's jungle.

One of the really wonderful things about Neos is that they'll fill a bed fairly quickly.  

And one of the nice things about the "great green North" is that some beautiful temperate species (including some spectacular natives) will grow well.  Hydrangea quercifolia, anyone?

[metalfan]

Oh yeah Oak Leaf Hydrangea is, I was told when we first moved here, a native plant? But it was "collected" in the wild so extensively that you can only find it at the local nurseries now.

Jason, my more unusual things are all grown in a greenhouse. Where do you live in big G?

[bgl]

As far as I'm concerned, one of the most attractive features of this palm is its multiple stems (and thus, large number of entire fronds). Clayton said that if you remove the pups, you'll get 5m (17 ft) long leaves. I like a natural look, so I've never tried this approach and my S. magnificas now have so many stems that I can't even count them. And I just checked my largest one - the fronds are about 25 ft/7.5 m. long!

[tank]

Gina,

I live Between NW 6th St and NW 13th ST, and NW 16th Ave and NW 23 Ave.

[calyptrocalyx&licuala freck]

Did someone say Broms,

[calyptrocalyx&licuala freck]

Neo's Cool....... :cool:

[Utopia Palms]

Hi Bo

We all know that you live in palm heaven and every thing grows bigger and better than most other places, but if you do want to see your Salacca’s full potential take all of the pups off one of your plants, you can replant the pups as there will not be any seed for a few years as the seeding palms have been moved and are only just starting to come back now!  I’m sure you will be amazed at the size of the leaf if they are 7.5 m long now they might get twice the size with the pups removed. I was given this information from a very good friend of mine who is in charge of the Salacca breeding Co in Indonesia

Hi Mike

Can you list some photos of a few of the other entire leaf Salaccas, dransfieldii etc

Clayton.

[ariscott]

Apparently, if you don't clean up the suckers, it will be hard to get the fruit too...

I have a nice pic with my daughter in front of it from Bogor... see whether I can find it again.

Definitely in my wish list :)

Regards, Ari

[bgl]

Clayton,

Thanks, but I don't think I'll be able to do that to any of my S. magnificas! I'll just have to settle for the 25 ft fronds!

Bo-Göran

[Kris]

Dear Gina  

thanks for statring such a wonderful thread.iam a fan of this palm.but its spines have kept me away from collecting it.

though i trim my phoenix myself.still iam a bit fussy about this palm.

and as clayton said even i think a taller speciam palm is safer

to sit and work around than a clumping form.clump will

always make cleaning difficult.so do not think you are killing

those pups around.but imagine damaging the eyes while

cleaning.take a cutting spear and cut-off !

this will add aesthetic and overall saftey to this palm..

clumping effect is good mostely for bamboos and not for

palm,but an exception will be for raphilis.

i personally thank all memebrs who have given illustration with visuals for guys like me to see how beautiful this

baby is.even joey palms also does not put any visible trunk

love,

Kris  

[Utopia Palms]

Hi Bo

Yes your one looks quite large and it would be quite a job to cut back!! But you could just remove one pup and replant that pup and then remove any pups that come from that one! Have any of your Salacca’s started to flower yet? Have you tried the fruit before there are quite a few different ones, from very sweet to sour!

Hi Kris

With all those Phoenix what’s a few more Spines! There is Salacca multiflora which to me looks like a miniature form of S. magnifica these would grow great for you just in pots.

Here is a photo for you Kris this is a Joey with a trunk it’s a habitat photo of Joey perakensis.

Sorry for side tracking this topic!

[Kris]

Dear Clayton  

thanks for the visuals...& suggestions.

love,

Kris  

[metalfan]

Okay I am on the fence with this one. For me, leaving the pups and having an overall smaller palm would be a plus, as I have a finite growing space in the greenhouse. But, its true also that it would have the other benefits listed to remove the pups, #1 of which would be to get more palms!

If I decided to remove a pup later, how would one go about it to be certain not to injure Mother and come away with a viable pup??

[metalfan]

Jason,

I know where you live. We used to live in the Duck Pond. We live off Millhopper now. I run out there (and down 43rd Street) 4 days a week. In fact I hafta go NOW or its gonna be too hot for me and I don't want to do treadmill at GHFC today...its supposed to be 95F with only 20% chance of rain today and a heat index of about 105 so I have watering to accomplish today.

We should get together sometime.

[Gbarce]

I LOVE the broms.  I collect those myself.  I've even hade some hybrids of my own.

Neoregelias are my favorite!!!

[Gbarce]

another neo.  they definitle go well with palms.

[Gbarce]

here'a avariegated one

[PalmsZA]

My Fav Aechmeas!!

[Gbarce]

NICE!! what kind are those?

[PalmsZA]

Hi Gene

They are Aechmea Orlandiana "enzign" I just cant remember the spelling right now!

Dennis

[Utopia Palms]

Hi All

This is a little off topic but as we have gone from Salacca to Joey’s to broms here is a photo for those Neo’s lovers out there!, there are over15,000 different ones in this collection.

[Utopia Palms]

Now for the really nice broms if any one is interested in these please pm me as we can supply these in large numbers!

[Utopia Palms]

One more

[metalfan]

I'd absolutely love to have the first one but how would you get it over here?

(And I don't care that the topic gets changed, keeps things interesting)