livistona chinensis

[gyuseppe]

this one was made from seed way back in 1989!
as you can see the seeds fall on the stem and sprout on the bases of the old leaves

[Arecaceus]

Amazing! How tall is it?

[gyuseppe]

I don't know exactly but it's very tall, to collect the seeds you need a long ladder

My syagrus romanzoffiana have grown over the roof  above  of the house, I made them from seed in 1986, I was 18 years old

[gyuseppe]

10 minutes ago, gyuseppe said:

I don't know exactly but it's very tall, to collect the seeds you need a long ladder

My syagrus romanzoffiana have grown over the roof  above  of the house, I made them from seed in 1986, I was 18 years old

 

[Fusca]

54 minutes ago, gyuseppe said:

this one was made from seed way back in 1989!
as you can see the seeds fall on the stem and sprout on the bases of the old leaves

Same thing happened with my Livistona chinensis this year also.  I was cleaning up the trunk and when I pulled off an old leaf base and discovered a seed had sprouted there!  

[gyuseppe]

I like them so much, that I have various sizes in my garden

[Patrick]

Crazy the variation on these. I like the skinny, dimiuitive trunks on these- like @Fusca's tree. Mine has about a 2' diameter base and probably 15' of trunk after 15 years. Anyone want to trade? Ha haha.

 

Hands down a better choice than W. robusta any day of the week.

[Mazat]

On 2.2.2025 at 23:26, gyuseppe said:

Ich mag sie so sehr, dass ich verschiedene Größen in meinem Garten habe

looks great, gyuseppe. someone here had tried it in a greenhouse and he had then given plants away. but both died indoors, even though the room was heated and a little underfloor heating under the plants didn't work either, so to speak.
you can often find them in discount stores here, but they are very fragile, so i'd rather not ....

[gyuseppe]

no Mazat, the ones you find in shopping centers are livistona rotundifolia/Saribus rotundifolius

[Mazat]

2 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

no Mazat, the ones you find in shopping centers are livistona rotundifolia/Saribus rotundifolius

okay, this explains it

[Phoenikakias]

2 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

no Mazat, the ones you find in shopping centers are livistona rotundifolia/Saribus rotundifolius

 

17 minutes ago, Mazat said:

okay, this explains it

... which hate lethally dry air!