Corypha Macropoda!

[ariscott]

Of course I do, Mikey... but you know that already...

Regards, Ari

[Kris]

Dear Friends

in that news article you find mention of ymca and that i used to see this palm often since when i was a kid i lived in my grand parents house along with my parents.and whenever i used to ask about this palm...everyone who saw it called it the payee pana_meaning "the monster palm".but all were of the opnion that its a male borassus.

And i had seen 2 more when i was a kid,that location was our horticulture society & a very reputed nursery called saundarya nursery in teynampet,both in chennai itself.

horticulture society one had conked-off long back ! when i was still in my first year collage,but one in saundarya nursery i do not know its status,since the nursery is closed for the past 10 to 12 years and sides walls have been built since they are planning to build apartments there..

And all the onces that i have seen in my early life were all tall and their height was almost of a fully matured coconut tree but but...wait the trunk is dam massive and its shinning black in colour and their leaves are more close to the colour of bismarkia or breha armeta..and more than this i cannot explain...iam glad i had seen that palm long back.

every time when i clossed this palm i always wished that my grandparents grow one such in their house too..but they told me that their roots will wreck havoc in a cramped-up house garden...

But i have collected 3 carypohas till now...

1.talipot

2.Buri palm

3.Lecomte

4. ?

Iam happy for one thing is that i have seen mature specimens of these palms_i thank god for it ! since one cannot explain how these are and photos do not do justice to them.and since i have seen recently talipots in lalbagh gardens,i have no doubt that what i saw were nothing other than the C.Macropoda...

love,

Kris

[Kris]

Dear Steve

Did you read this article...?

http://www.pacsoa.org.au/palms/Corypha/macropoda.html

Love,

Kris

[Kris]

Here is a still of a C.Macropoda taken in the madras christian collage_'MCC' tambram(Chennai) last year during the final stages of fruiting.kindly bare with the still resolution.It seems to be a still taken using a mobile phone by Dr.D.Narasimhan.

Here's that lovely Link ! to that photo.

Love,

Kris

[Kris]

An intreasting photo Link ! to the C.M palm...

Love,

Kris

[www.dadluvsu.com]

Absolutely enchanting photos Kris! Thanks for posting the link... I am eager to see my seeds germinate.

[simona]

One of my Corypha seeds has shown its first green today! Thanks Kris!

[DoomsDave]

Thanks for the pics!

Hmm.

No sprouts yet . . . .

[FRITO]

thanks for bringing this back! im am very excited about this palm. I have no sprouts yet.

I have them at about 87F (30.5 C) heat....sound good?

[simona]

Mine get so much only for about 4 hours in the evening and one hour in the morning, in the meantime the temperature is getting down to 18 C.

[Jeff in St Pete]

No sprouts on mine yet either. I'm getting anxious...

[Kris]

Where are we...?

Came to this page from google site !

[Moose]

Where are we...?

Came to this page from google site !

[amazondk]

Kris,

It has been a long time since you sent me the seeds. I had them in baggies in the kitchen and nothing happened. Then I put them in a plastic box container in coconut fiber and left them outside in the shade of some palm trees. In no time at all 4 of them germinated. They are all growing ok and have been moved to pots. I still have more seeds and hopefully a few more will germinate.

Thanks again for the seeds the tree will make a great addition to my garden.

dk

[Kris]

Dear Don

Glad to hear from you,and happy that they have started showing signs of life..

As long they don't float their is hope.All the best with rest of the remaining seeds..

Lots of love,

Kris

[Kris]

Here's a update of the ones that we are growing... By the way this just a bump !

Love,

kris

[amazondk]

Kris,

Of the seeds you sent me there are 4 seedlings. They appear to be doing ok. I have a place for them on my land and hope to see them in the ground some day. These pictures I took last week.

dk

[Kris]

Dear Don

Great work ! They love full sun & heat...you can speed up their growth rate by doing so.

And here is a lovely link on the C.M palm

http://www.utopiapalmsandcycads.com/Coryphamacropoda.htm

love,

kris

[Kris]

[amazondk]

Kris,

I posted a picture of this seedling on another thread. But, I do not remember which. Anyway I have 3 of them planted on my land at a space of about 5 meters apart. They should do well. It is sandy soil, with a lot of sun and heat. They are planted where the sticks are. Two of them are visible. But, there is a third one. As the palm trees grow I will remove the secondary vegetation brush and trees around them. I also have a group of 9 Bismarkias close to the Coryphas. They should make a great landscape effect.

dk

[Peter Pacific]

Hi Don, thanks for the posts of the C. macropodas. That area where you have these three and nine Bismarckias will be spectacular. I have an area in the back yard with a Bismarckia, five Borassus and two C. macropodas, there all tiny but I'm starting to worry a little about the size! In another post bubba wrote of a house eating Corypha we better be careful! Peter

[amazondk]

Peter,

This picture is looking straight at where the 3 Coryphas are planted now. It is a telephoto so the image is compressed. The bismarkias are behind and to the left of the bismarkia.

Behind the Astrocaryum aculeatum to the right is where most of the Bismarkias are planted 4 meters apart.

[Peter Pacific]

Is that the Rio Negro I see in the distance? Spectacular, Don. Is that the drive to and from your home? I can visualize the Bismarckias and I'm sure they'll take you breath away every time you pass them.

To have one in your garden is fabulous, to have a grove of them is beyond words! Good Luck, Peter

[amazondk]

Peter,

That is a real nice tree. I really was not planning on a Bismarkia grove. But, Ari sent me a bunch of seeds and they germinated well. So, I decided why not. The Corypha seeds that Kris sent me turned into 4 plants, which I have three planted as I mentioned. I planted a little Bismarkia, the one in the picture above and it did so well in the spot that I decided to plant more of them. It flew through the dry season with no problem. On that spot on my lot the sun is brutal in the dry season. I think they like the sandy soil mix as well.

Yes that is the Negro River. My place is at the point where the river starts to narrow before the straight that leads into the Anavilhanas islands. It is on the left margin when you look up river from Manaus. I only have a project of a house there and hopefully by the time the bridge across the river is finished in October I will have something put up. For the meantime we sleep at my mother in laws place which is next door. It is sort of rustic as we sleep in an open cabana in hammocks in front of the chicken coup. But, it works. I have been getting the basic landscape trees in place. So, as the place gets structured they will already be taking off. There is no road along the river on this side. You have to go inland then across. In fact the land from the Village of Paricatuba where my place is to the bridge, in fact the meeting of the waters of the Amazon is being turned into a state park and will have no development. When the bridge is in I will be 30 minutes from Manaus. Now it is sometimes a 3 hour trip due to the delay on the ferry boat.

This picture is a telephoto through the same trees above. The tucumã on the left and the Attalea maripa on the right. The Bismarkia grove will pop up there.

This photo is from the river looking at my place. The house are really just simple places belonging to an old lady and her family. My place starts just behind them and runs along the Mauritia grove on the right. It is 11,000 m2 in size. You can see the same two trees on the skyline as the previous picture looking out.

And, this is a telephoto shot looking out over the river through the fronds of the same two palms. The street running along my place is named Bela Vista, which it is.

[Kris]

Dear Don

Very happy to know that few corypha's are growing in your garden...

Wish you good luck ! And thanks for the updates.

Love,

kris

[amazondk]

Kris,

I am anxious to see what they will look like a year from now.

dk

[Kris]

Kris,

I am anxious to see what they will look like a year from now.

dk

Dear Don

For about 6 to 8 years you will not see much of upward grouth,And all the gardeners here have confirmed this fact to me.After that gestation period they will start to move like a goods train,very very slow... Since this is the tallest and the heaviest amoung the corypha clang.Its growuth rate is also very slow.It is believed that this C.macropoda survies up to 70 to 75 years of age in wet tropical climate without any fungus infection or root rot.And the believe me that i have seen a baby c.macropoda and a 70 year old palm.they are specutular and not even close to talipot palms as seen in stills uploaded by many members here.

This one looks like a bismarkia on steroids and once past the 18 feet mark it would look like a light house structure from a clear distance.The fronds & leaf size is not massive like talipot palms.So one need not worry about the palm eating up your real estate space.

Though i have very limited space in our garden i have made it a point to plant this corypha and the other types.Even if it breaks our compound walls.

And in the next 70 years i hope that at least one palm from this batch produces viable seeds which are once again distributed in the similar way.So that such a specutular fan palm's life cycle prolongs for the next generation to enjoy these jurassic palms !

Lots of love,

kris

[amazondk]

Kris,

Thanks for the information on the palm. At what age does it start to produce trunk normally?

dk

[Kris]

Dear Don

I cannot say that exactly,but in south indian climatic condition it should be putting out a 8 to 10 feet of trunk without boots(dried fronds) in about 16 to 20 years time.Provided the soil below is soft & free for easy root penitration....i.e the C.Utans have this feature first root development and only later the upward grouth.

And here in my place in a park there is a C.Macropoda baby growing with no physical trunk.I must go and see how its doing.And only problem is that they do not allow cameras in that area..?

Love,

kris

[amazondk]

Kris,

I think they will do great at my place. The top layer of earth is sandy and under it is clay. I do not think there is a rock layer very close to the surface. So, there is plenty of room for the roots to grow. It will be interesting to watch them grow.

Thanks again for the seeds that turned into baby palms. By the way I have one of your mangos and two of the jack fruit from seeds you sent me at my place. Both are doing very well.

dk

[Kris]

[Kris]

Here's a Video update !

Love,

kris.

[Kris]

I usually keep searching Google for images & information regarding the Corypha's and i came across this interesting information ! Here's a link...

http://madrasmusings...-%20No%2024.pdf

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[Gileno Machado]

Hi Kris,

Your C. macropoda is looking great there, much bigger than mine...(I should upgrade her container pot, like you did...). The video is nice but silent? It would be great to hear you describing the species...

Cheers, Gileno

[LJG]

Wow. For a second I thought Clayton had returned only to find out this thread was from 2007

[Kris]

Here's an update of the one that is growing in a public park....These stills goes out to all the Corypha Fans World Wide !

Love,

Kris.

[Kris]

Cont...

Here's are the stills of the same palm in bigger format !

Enjoy !

Edited June 14, 2013 by Kris

[yachtingone]

Nice pic Kris!

[Kris]

Hi Randy

Nice to hear from you,Glad you like the images...And iam attempting to paste here big stills of C.Macropoda lets see ! Since on my previous attempt the images were all upside down ?

Enjoy !