Post your Licuala grandis

[bubba]

Elegant palm:

[Kim]

I love the way the fronds catch the light. 

[WaianaeCrider]

My two are just babies.

 

[TomJ]

Not mine obviously...

Walking around last week they were everywhere in Jakarta.

 

 

[johnnymak]

[Merlyn]

Here's my only remaining Grandis.  This was the smaller of the two, but the large one fell over in my nursery area during a heatwave/drought and I didn't spot it.  Don't let these dry out, they'll die!

[96720]

How much sun will these take

[realarch]

I’ve seen them in full blazing sun in the tropics, but with super high humidity. They seem to look a bit better here in Hilo with minimal  cover.

Tim

[96720]

Mine is in some winter sun in summer will be in complete shade not too many palms will take our summer sun.

[miamicuse]

I have a few but still small.

[The Palm Nut]

This photo was taken many years ago and all the plants/palms have long gone with only the Licuala grandis closest to the steel pole alive now. As you can see its quite small and not looking particularly happy. It was purchased as a seedling, has been in the ground exposed to the elements for at least a few years at this point. At the time I was cautiously optimistic having planted a Phoenicophorium borsigianum, if I remember correctly it didn't last that long. I forget what the other palm was. But Licuala grandis supprised me so I helped it along during winter by covering it in a birdcage covered in plastic and light bulb inside. It plotted along ever so slowly until I decided to cover the whole garden about ten years ago. The age of it is around 30 years and as you can see it has been looking fantastic ever since.

 

[mnorell]

I have a couple of Licuala grandis in one-gallon pots purchased from Jeff Marcus a couple of years ago...still alive and constantly outside in the California desert. After 2022's 31F (and endured with minimal protection sitting under a porch-roof) they kept their leaves but responded with a mini-leaf in spring and then again with full-sized leaves. And this was with a Northeastern exposure through the various chills of winter in the Palm Springs area. I would definitely rank (in this climate) from least hardy to most hardy of the common "tender" palms in the Sonoran Desert: Cocos nucifera (worst, as we all know most cultivars just hate those cold nights)-->Adonidia merrillii (survives but small and exposed plants take damage in the 30s, usually recover and seem revived by the heat of the summers); and then Licuala grandis (most hardy of the three here), it still maintains an "okay" appearance even in a one-gallon can in a bad exposure. I'm sure these plants will get more tolerant of cold as they age/grow, as Mike (The Palm Nut) has shown above and in his other post(s). This is a great palm for a protected atrium!

[Frond-friend42]

Don't forget the babies