Pinanga ID request

[Brad52]

This Pinanga caught my eye today so I bought 'em tho unlabelled.  Clumping, mottled, but looks like P coronata but I don't recall any of mine having a mottled phase?  Might someone know what this is?

[Palmarum]

1 hour ago, Brad52 said:

This Pinanga caught my eye today so I bought 'em tho unlabelled.  Clumping, mottled, but looks like P coronata but I don't recall any of mine having a mottled phase?  Might someone know what this is? ...

My first instinct says Pinanga sp. 'Blue Fruit' (or blue seed) but it might be a P. crassipes with a bit of bland coloration. Both have that mottling when young and a similar leaf shape. It could easily be another ivory crownshafted species the more I look at it.

After a short time growing it will make itself known. It might produce a showy light-pink new leaf and could flower when small.

Ryan

[KrisKupsch]

Could be any number of the mottled shuttlecock Pinangas but coronata it looks fractionally too nice to be and maybe sarawakensis or yes crassipes but I’ve never seen a true crassipes as the one i knew about at a BG ended up being just a nice coronata. Maybe it is just that. 

[Brad52]

Where I wanted to plant it, a P coronata would be too large so it sounds like I might need to be patient with this to see if an ID can emerge.

[John hovancsek]

Thi mottled, adingensis or blue seed are my guess 

[Brad52]

4 hours ago, John hovancsek said:

Thi mottled, adingensis or blue seed are my guess 

John the person that I obtained it from is a seed opportunist are those palms common enough for someone to stumble across around here?

[John hovancsek]

On 10/3/2023 at 9:40 AM, happypalms said:

Draceana thaloides is the plant in question 🌱

 

14 hours ago, Brad52 said:

John the person that I obtained it from is a seed opportunist are those palms common enough for someone to stumble across around here?

Definitely Thai mottled

[realarch]

Hey Brad, a good chance it’s P. coronata as they do have mottled leaves and a very common palm here in East Hawaii. That’s my guess. 

I’ll try and snap some photos this morning, got a ton of them.

Tim

[Brad52]

2 hours ago, John hovancsek said:

 

Definitely Thai mottled

I have the pot sitting next to my 'Thai Mottled' and they do look alike save for my older one seems to have narrower leaves but maybe that is a seedling thing.

[realarch]

Hey Brad, I do have a ‘Thai mottled’, or at least it was acquired as such, and several other Pinanga. P. coronata pales in comparison to other species in mottled pattern and color, I’ve a P. densiflora, gifted from John Hovencsek, and it’s a beeute! 

P. coronata, while a great substitute for C. lutescens, is similar in speed of growth and constant maintenance. A love hate thing. 

Tim

[Brad52]

2 hours ago, realarch said:

Hey Brad, a good chance it’s P. coronata as they do have mottled leaves and a very common palm here in East Hawaii. That’s my guess. 

I’ll try and snap some photos this morning, got a ton of them.

Tim

Tim, I have around 25 of them and none were mottled so this one is throwing me off Coronata but yours were mottled?

[realarch]

Brad, finally got a break from the rain, the first photo is P. coronata, the second is P. densiflora. Supposedly my P. coronata are the ‘blunt leaf’ form, but honestly I could never tell the difference between the two. My coronata have always had mottling.

Tim

[Brad52]

7 minutes ago, realarch said:

Brad, finally got a break from the rain, the first photo is P. coronata, the second is P. densiflora. Supposedly my P. coronata are the ‘blunt leaf’ form, but honestly I could never tell the difference between the two. My coronata have always had mottling.

Tim

 

Dang, yours are much nicer than mine!