Pinanga sylvestris twin shoots

[khachaturian]

I'm relatively new to the palm world. One of my first germination trials (with commercially obtained seeds) involved Pinanga sylvestris. First leaves emerged some weeks back. I was preparing to transplant two seedlings, but as I dug them out, I noticed that both shoots were emerging from the same seed. I wonder how common this is... I've encountered polyembryonism in the seeds of various tropical plants, but I don't know whether this is the same thing.

Growing conditions: tropical (rain: April/May > November).

 

 

 

[PalmatierMeg]

Not common in palms but not unheard of, I believe. I have twin coconuts from one seed. I kept them together and planted them side by side.

[PalmCode]

I recently had the same thing happen with one of  my rhopalistylis seeds. Out of 300 or so seeds only one turned out like that... And 2 other seeds show similar traits but are more compact and  the heads joined closer.

[John hovancsek]

I hav noticed that this happens with pinanga a lot. I had about 15 blue seed and at least 5 of them were twins

[Deej]

Areca vestaria, I don’t know if twins are common or not, but it’s pretty cool to me! The seeds were from a recent batch from @NatureGirl