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Originally Posted by saltydad
Tog, that is a beautiful palm! Do you think it would winter inside well? Living in Maryland, I have only cold-hardy palms.
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Howard, with its size and very low light requirements, I don't see any problems of you bringing it indoors.
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Originally Posted by musaboru
Two palms I really want the most is Areca catechu and Cyrtostachys lakka (or renda).
For now, I am fine with a little Archontophoenix in a pot I got, it sorta looks like a little Areca catechu now and enough for my plant fix at the moment. 
I hear the cyrtostachys grows like a weed there in Malaysia Tog. :O
I dont really like any other palm. I really care about the attraction of the leaves and shape of the trunk etc and I find those three really beautiful. I know Im so picky. ^____^ |
Yup, yup, yup, the
C renda is everywhere! The
A catechu is a nice palm to grow but it gets tall. If you have the chance, get the
dwarf version from Thailand. Sometimes sds of this dwarf cultivar are offered but not all germinate true. From what I gather thru the people in Thailand only about 80% comes out dwarf. It is a very lovely stout short palm which does not get more than 6ft in trunk height. I have the rarer form from Myanmar which is much stouter/fatter in trunk size than the Thai variety.
A catechu sds will sprout in slightly more than a month if they are fresh.
Here you can see how tall the A catechu can get. It is growing by a river along with the Musa acuminata subsp malaccensis. Do you think you can still handle the height? 
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Originally Posted by Jack Daw
What about Roystonea, Hyophorbe or others?
P.S: Cyrtostachys renda is about to germinate (I have it for greenhouse and home only though)
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Jack,
Roystonea regia is one of the first palms to be used in landscaping in the city and they are everywhere. Now people are very tired of it and it's replacement is the
Woodeytia bifurcata, the Aussie Fox Tail Palm. Now this palm is everywhere! We have
Hyphorbe's as in
H lagenicaulis but it is not popular because of the uneven development of the bottle shape.
H verschaffeltii is also found as a landscape element but it is not popular as it is
common looking. Anyway, both these two genus are very good growers.
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Originally Posted by bepah
To find the real experts, www.palmtalk.org is a fantastic resource. There is more knowledge there than anywhere else. Check it out. |
Hey John, I tried joining sites like this and others but like here best, they mostly talk about growing it in the cold areas. I was also a
mini tropics discovery channel of sort in my posts. I gave up after awhile cos I wasn't learning much. There is no doubt they are very good, especially on the technical side of things but I opted for the friendliness of this site.
Probably it will be great for the people from the west as they can learn alot about growing palms in the cold areas.