Nice little chamaedorea plumosa

[happypalms]

A nice healthy batch of plumosa. Propagated from my own seed I see there quite popular on palm talk. There a lovely chamaedorea variety to grow best if given an open shaded place were they are not lost in other foliage. A very tall growing species somewhat cool tolerant and very predictable growth pattern. A top little understory palm if your after a bit height in the understory. 

[Harry’s Palms]

I’m starting to see more of these around here. There is a nursery that has some multi , 4-5 stems per pot , about 6-7’ tall . A very attractive palm. Harry

[idontknowhatnametuse]

How old are those?

[happypalms]

14 hours ago, idontknowhatnametuse said:

How old are those?

About 4 and a bit years. 

[gyuseppe]

I found a chamaedorea it seems to be more plumosa than glaucifolia

[Phoenikakias]

1 hour ago, gyuseppe said:

I found a chamaedorea it seems to be more plumosa than glaucifolia

Show it!

[happypalms]

4 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

I found a chamaedorea it seems to be more plumosa than glaucifolia

If any one has gyuseppe it would you, you have created more hybrids than I can think off.

[gyuseppe]

please tell me it's plumosa! ,it has narrower leaves than my glaucifolia

[gyuseppe]

I found these small chamaedorea in the garden that grew by themselves, I hope they are not microspadix, my garden is full of microspadix

[Phoenikakias]

1 hour ago, gyuseppe said:

please tell me it's plumosa! ,it has narrower leaves than my glaucifolia

Better show to us the stem and base of petioles. Are they covered with wax?

[Phoenikakias]

2 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

I found these small chamaedorea in the garden that grew by themselves, I hope they are not microspadix, my garden is full of microspadix

They look to me like a bifid sp, such as metallica or geonomiformis or a even a hybrid (= x metitalica just joking)

[gyuseppe]

58 minutes ago, Phoenikakias said:

Better show to us the stem and base of petioles. Are they covered with wax?

no they are not covered in wax

[gyuseppe]

58 minutes ago, Phoenikakias said:

They look to me like a bifid sp, such us metallica or geonomiformis or a even a hybrid (= x metitalica just joking)

last time i sowed in that place, where i found the seedling, 4 years ago! geonomiformis, let's hope they are geonomiformis

[happypalms]

15 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

please tell me it's plumosa! ,it has narrower leaves than my glaucifolia

Looks very similar to plumosa to me. 

[gyuseppe]

yes Richard, I also think it is plumosa, the leaves are different from the glaucifolia ones they are narrower

[idontknowhatnametuse]

22 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

yes Richard, I also think it is plumosa, the leaves are different from the glaucifolia ones they are narrower

plumosa: Left

glaucifolia: Right

[gyuseppe]

thanks for the photos, yes mine looks more like plumosa in person

[peachy]

For me these are amazingly fast growing in the right spot. From 30cms overall height in September 2023 they got too tall for the shade house in 9 months. I planted them out, one in nearly full sun, it has barely grown at all, one in mainly sun, It's grown a bit and the last gets full sun for only 3 hours a day and has reached 3 metres overall with nearly a metre of trunk. The entire Chamaedorea genus is under rated in my opinion. Tough, pretty and many very fast growing species among them.

Peachy

[happypalms]

28 minutes ago, peachy said:

For me these are amazingly fast growing in the right spot. From 30cms overall height in September 2023 they got too tall for the shade house in 9 months. I planted them out, one in nearly full sun, it has barely grown at all, one in mainly sun, It's grown a bit and the last gets full sun for only 3 hours a day and has reached 3 metres overall with nearly a metre of trunk. The entire Chamaedorea genus is under rated in my opinion. Tough, pretty and many very fast growing species among them.

Peachy

They are an amazing genus, so many versatile species among them. It’s amazing how you can get a batch of identical palms and plant them out and watch the difference in growth rates among the batch of palms. They never get boring to grow especially in the seedling stage changing so much from juvenile to adult. 
Richard