So What Caught Your Eye Today?

[Palmiz]

8 hours ago, palmfriend said:

Hi,

many years ago I planted out a young Dypsis (Chrysalidocarpus) pembana, presented it shortly after that here on pt

because I was excited of its phenomenal growth rate - but within 30mins. or so someone here identified it as 

an Alexander palm... - which was a kind of set back since I was so sure that I had a Pembana palm planted out there.

However, years went on and I started to accept the fact that I was probably wrong, until I had to take out a 

E. guineensis (African oil palm) last fall because its already several feet long leaves always broke early during

a typhoon and then soon skeletonized. The thorn like remaining leaflet's base made it worse when the still attached

(skeletonized) leaves lashed around like a whip (during a typhoon) and damaged other plants/palms close by significantly.

After editing the oil palm the surroundig plants started to get much more sun than before and something "caught my eye today".

Never looked at "that one"with interest because it was probably one of the countless Christmas palms I had planted out when 

I started with the garden but something let me look at it a bit longer than usual...

Here it is:

I am not 100% sure but I think this is the Pembana palm I have planted out - not far away from the Alexander palm which I had posted 

by mistake at that time.

It would be nice to have this one positively IDed as a Pembana - so if someone might take a look at it (again) -

it would help to "solve a cold case".

 

Sry for the long story -

Lars

 

 

Does it have silver undersides of leaves, if it does I would say alexander. If not you could rule that one out. Kinda looks like Ptychosperma too but can't really see the tips, pointed or jagged?

[D. Morrowii]

There were a several dead fronds and a few brown tips on this Calyptrocalyx polyphyllus so I thought I better clean it up. It had been surrounded by other potted palms for quite awhile so it was hard to get a good look at it. After cleaning it up I was surprised to see a foot long crownshaft and about 6” of trunk! 

[palmfriend]

2 hours ago, Palmiz said:

Does it have silver undersides of leaves, if it does I would say alexander. If not you could rule that one out. Kinda looks like Ptychosperma too but can't really see the tips, pointed or jagged?

Thank you for your reply!

No, no silver undersides. Ptychosperma might be possible because I have several of them but not planted in that area of my garden. I have an already maturing Pembana from the same

seed batch, I will have closer look at both of them tomorrow. 

Lars

 

[Foxpalms]

Kentia palms planted in the ground at 51N in northern central London on a cold cloudy day. There were 3 however I only took photos of 2 of them. 

Edited January 8 by Foxpalms

[John2468]

This Attalea cohune.

 

Edited January 8 by John2468

[Billeb]

23 hours ago, palmfriend said:

 

 

Lars, 

I think you are right. It does look like Pembaba to me. The crownshaft is more yellow than I’ve seen but the trunk coloring and size looks correct. It even looks like it’s pushing a sucker at the base which obviously is a trait of Pembana. It hard to tell from the pics but it appears to have that pink shadowing/speckling where the leafs grow out if the crown shaft also. 
 

Take a close up picture of the crown if you get a chance.  To me….i think it is. 
 

-dale 

[realarch]

14 hours ago, D. Morrowii said:

There were a several dead fronds and a few brown tips on this Calyptrocalyx polyphyllus so I thought I better clean it up. It had been surrounded by other potted palms for quite awhile so it was hard to get a good look at it. After cleaning it up I was surprised to see a foot long crownshaft and about 6” of trunk! 

Dean, that looks terrific! Is it throwing a new red leaf?

Tim

[D. Morrowii]

7 hours ago, realarch said:

Dean, that looks terrific! Is it throwing a new red leaf?

Tim

Tim, it does indeed, a nice deep red and sometimes 2 at once which is neat. 

[Brad52]

On 1/8/2024 at 4:07 AM, D. Morrowii said:

There were a several dead fronds and a few brown tips on this Calyptrocalyx polyphyllus so I thought I better clean it up. It had been surrounded by other potted palms for quite awhile so it was hard to get a good look at it. After cleaning it up I was surprised to see a foot long crownshaft and about 6” of trunk! 

This was already on my next Floribunda list so it was nice to see your photos, what are your observations about it’s growth rate?

[realarch]

Brad, you NEED more palms….you’re an animal.

Tim

[palmfriend]

On 1/9/2024 at 12:09 PM, Billeb said:

Lars, 

I think you are right. It does look like Pembaba to me. The crownshaft is more yellow than I’ve seen but the trunk coloring and size looks correct. It even looks like it’s pushing a sucker at the base which obviously is a trait of Pembana. It hard to tell from the pics but it appears to have that pink shadowing/speckling where the leafs grow out if the crown shaft also. 
 

Take a close up picture of the crown if you get a chance.  To me….i think it is. 
 

-dale 

Dale,

Thank you very  much for your reply and offered help.

So I just took some photos - maybe we can close the file on this.

First of few pics of my original Pembana palm.

The trunk is dark green, it had two suckers which didn't make it unfortunately.

Now the palm in question.

As mentioned before - in close range of the edited oil palm - so I would say, a bit late in its level of growth but it is now getting more

sun and has more space to develop.

Just to cover any angle, here is one of my Ptychosperma palms in comparison.

The trunk makes it a bit tricky, but I think the leave looks very different.

A final note, this Ptychosperma is younger than the palm in question...

Al right, NO highjacking intended! This is going to be my last post about this one in this thread. If it is too hard to ID it at the moment,

no worries, I'll leave it where it is and I am sure, time will finally tell.

@Billeb and anyone else who might take a look - thank you for your time in advance!

 

Lars 

[D. Morrowii]

19 hours ago, Brad52 said:

This was already on my next Floribunda list so it was nice to see your photos, what are your observations about it’s growth rate?

Brad, here in Florida and in a pot it has been medium slow. I think I got it in a 1 or 2 gal size at a local backyard sale 2 years ago and now its in a 5 gal. When I first got it, it had 1 or 2 pups and was maybe 14” tall now there are 4 or 5 pups and its about 36” tall. The new fronds are a darker red the more it matures.

[Brad52]

3 hours ago, D. Morrowii said:

Brad, here in Florida and in a pot it has been medium slow. I think I got it in a 1 or 2 gal size at a local backyard sale 2 years ago and now its in a 5 gal. When I first got it, it had 1 or 2 pups and was maybe 14” tall now there are 4 or 5 pups and its about 36” tall. The new fronds are a darker red the more it matures.

Thanks for the info!

[Hurricanepalms]

One of my Loxococcus Rupicola recently opened a new leaf. The picture really doesn’t do the colors justice, but I imagine that’s a common problem. 
 

They seem to enjoy our cooler weather than the baking heat of mid summer. Anyone growing these in California?

Edited January 10 by Hurricanepalms

[John2468]

Saw these clumps of Ravenala madagascariensis and this Phoenix reclinata x roebelenii

[Tracy]

Pritchardia flynnii in center field catches the guava.  That caught my eye as I walked by.

[Hilo Jason]

Chrysalidocarpus Pilulifera showing off some color along with it’s first ring of trunk

[Daryl]

These B.fenestralis were looking good...

 

[realarch]

2 hours ago, Hilo Jason said:

Chrysalidocarpus Pilulifera showing off some color along with it’s first ring of trunk

Looking great Jason. How bout a shot of the leaves. 

Tim

[realarch]

Daryl, the spacing really lets this palm show off. Nice!

Tim

[realarch]

Burretiokentia grandiflora, inflorescence is like a cross between B. vieillardii and B. hapala……..well sort of.

Tim

[John2468]

Acoelorrhaphe wrightii

Edited January 15 by John2468

[John2468]

[Daryl]

A young Carpoxylon ...such a cool palm!

 

[Hilo Jason]

On 1/14/2024 at 1:59 PM, realarch said:

Looking great Jason. How bout a shot of the leaves. 

Tim

A bit tough to get a picture of the entire tree as this area is pretty crowded and I really need to cut back the mango tree. But here it is 

 

[Daryl]

[Hilo Jason]

Chrysalidocarpus Prestonianus Hybrid after dropping a frond 

[John hovancsek]

I was out in the yard feeding the Guinea hens before work and seen my pinanga aristata with a flower. I almost lost it

 

[Brad52]

On 1/17/2024 at 12:10 AM, Daryl said:

I’m guessing this is a Metroxylon, if so has no yours been incredibly slow growing?  I have 2 that are just runts after nearly 3 years and I’m wondering if mine don’t like their conditions.

[Daryl]

7 hours ago, Brad52 said:

I’m guessing this is a Metroxylon, if so has no yours been incredibly slow growing?  I have 2 that are just runts after nearly 3 years and I’m wondering if mine don’t like their conditions.

Not mine unfortunately, but yes, Metroxylon warburgii and not too slow growing from what I have seen

[Frond-friend42]

Pelagodoxa with such intense contrast, like green denim.

[Matt in OC]

Dypsis Marojejyi flower on a 🌧️ day. 

[Kim]

Let's see what develops...

[Brad52]

This caught my eye with those bumpy burgundy petioles, it is one of six I obtained as Veitchia joannis, of the other five one appears to be Carpentaria and the others are a bit different from each other.  
 

Does this look right for V joannis? None of the others were this dark?  I should have included a close up but the petioles are bumpy and quite dark.

Edited January 22 by Brad52

[John2468]

This mini twisted coconut. I’ve been seeing many of these mini cocos in my area, any ideas why they are growing this way. My guess is that it’s probably not getting enough nutrients, but at the same time, it couldn’t be the case because the others cocos next to it was normal.

[Billy]

Noticing that the rain filled up the moat of my recently planted Bentinckia condapanna. 

[Billy]

All moats full this morning definitely caught my eye so I managed to snap a couple quick photos in the rain. 

[flplantguy]

This spindle caught my eye because of the way it is growing. It seems more upright, thicker, and stiffer compared to the others, but it is also the only one that didn't get a mealybug infestation earlier in the fall. The chill didn't seem to effect it at all either.

[Brad52]

This caught my eye today, I hope it’s supposed to be mottled…H rheophytica

[realarch]

Hey Brad, yup, the mottling is normal and an attractive trait.

Tim