Looks like you have a Pandanus tectorius there. I've got a few started from seed but they're still quite small

I love those screw pines but I lost two to winter frosts and gave up trying to grow them.

Jim

I finally got out some ladders and cleaned the dead stuff out of mine. I cut dead branches off and sealed them with pruning paint. Maybe they'll sprout again if we survive a milder winter. I removed all the dead fronds and was attacked by millions of ants who didn't like me disurbing their habitat. There were frogs up there and bees and who knows what else. I didn't linger up there too long.

Went shopping for Live Oaks today and found some nice 300 gallon tubs with large trees. Still need to get some pricing as to getting them here and planted.
fred

I have this cycad that has sent out very nice shoots!

Photo taken on 08Sept2011



This time the leaves have fully opened: photo taken on 21Sept2011


I have this little one, some of the leaves were wilted, photo taken on 08Sept2011


After some more watering, it is now recovering a little better, the leaves are starting to get green again, the other leaves are not cooperating though..will wait a bit, if after a month it is still so white, will chop it off.



Sometimes I get confused, knowing that cycads are drought tolerant, but then again at times it is so thirsty!

Couldn't keep my wallet closed and brought another cycad home from the Fall Plant sale at Tropiflora in Sarasota. Really went there to buy some more broms but then I got to talking to a palm/cycad vendor and lost the battle. So some of the non-broms brought home were - drum roll please:

Pachypodium lamerei var. ramosum (it was on sale for 3 bucks and called out to me). It's common name is Madagascar Palm so I guess it belongs here.


Then came my first variegated Rhapis excelsa (Lady Palm in white)


Then came a frost tolerant palm called a Mule Palm - Butyagrus nabonnandii (Butia capitata x Syagnus)


Note that every plant I bought had to be frost tolerant. I'm still a bit nervous from last winter. The sign and the cycad Dioone edule:


Fred

Good buys, Fred. They are all pretty frost tolerant except for the Madagascar palm. I lost mine a couple of winters ago, at 28 degrees, it turned to mush. It is related to the plumerias and has about the same cold tolerance.

Jim

My other Madagascars survived. They lost some of their tops but then sprouted new arms in the Spring. I had also wrapped them but apparently not enough.
fred

Have been folowing this tread for some time, love cycads and have a few off them. At the start of the spring i had a serious problem my biggest cycad had rot in his top, tried to remove as much of the rot pulp and after that i filled up the hole with barbecue ash.


just before the top started to rot.

after a week of four it started to push up some new leafs and i i started to give it some 14-5-28 fertilizer
It looked like the top whas imploding

At this moment it looks like this , if the leafs reach the same size as they where i,ll have a problem to gett it out of my greenhousse

Very interesting that the picture of the advertising for the Mule palm is my photo that I took at our nursery 5 years ago.

Fred said:Couldn't keep my wallet closed and brought another cycad home from the Fall Plant sale at Tropiflora in Sarasota. Really went there to buy some more broms but then I got to talking to a palm/cycad vendor and lost the battle. So some of the non-broms brought home were - drum roll please:

Pachypodium lamerei var. ramosum (it was on sale for 3 bucks and called out to me). It's common name is Madagascar Palm so I guess it belongs here.


Then came my first variegated Rhapis excelsa (Lady Palm in white)


Then came a frost tolerant palm called a Mule Palm - Butyagrus nabonnandii (Butia capitata x Syagnus)


Note that every plant I bought had to be frost tolerant. I'm still a bit nervous from last winter. The sign and the cycad Dioone edule:


Fred

The image.

Once it's on the internet, you no longer have control over your pictures unless you watermark them or protect them in some other way; it's a sad truth!
There is a Plumeria lover who takes the BEST pictures I have ever seen; they end up on Ebay regularly even though he has them set as unable to copy....

Maybe I worded that wrong. I am actually quite pleased someone would use my photo. I think its great.

I have a question for Erik or any other palm person. I have a Brazilian Sand Palm (Allagoptera arenaria) and I would like to grow out some of the seeds. I tried with one batch and nothing sprouted. There is another group of seeds on the tree that look fertile but I don't know. Should I remove them now and try again? Should I wait and watch for them to fall of or put them in a loose bag? Once I have the seeds, how difficult is it to get them to sprout?

Here's the palm



and a close up of the seed frond

I don't know about this one specifically but many palm seeds can take a long time to sprout. I would google it....

Jonna, I only have experience with the palms around here that 'naturally' seed themselves. I'd wait until the seeds drop off the stem on their own, then try planting them. You'll know they're ripe, then.

Some seeds need soaking, some need cracking, nicking or peeling, and some even need to pass through the digestive system of a bird or animal to germinate. Do you know anyone with a Brazilian parrot that might "process" one for you?

http://www.palms.org/ and go to questions. You might find an answer there.

That's a great web site, I got lost almost immediately and had to force myself to close out as I had an appt. I hadn't yet found advice for seed starting but I will keep looking. Here's another pic of the palm that I think is better as there was a cloud passing and the sun didn't bleach out the picture as much. It's a wonderful palm, the pool water doesn't faze it and the corkscrew growth is really interesting. I want to be able to give some seedlings to friends.

Most palm seeds do not like to be planted in individual cells. I do not have experience germinating the palm in question. For all the palms that I have germinated I use bottom heat at 95F planted as close together as possible. Some seeds like to be stored in a fridge before hand then soaked in Water for a couple days. Here is the only information I could find on your palm for germination.

The optimal germination conditions for seashore palm seeds include prolonged exposure to high temperatures from 90-100ºF (32-37.8ºC) and high humidity. Keep the seed moist at all times.

OK, well at this time of the year I can fulfill those requirements outside. Maybe that is what I should do instead of the individual cells and no full sun that I tried before. I will wait for this batch to fall off the stem and then put them all together in a pot next to mama. We are about to enter our rainy season so keeping them wet will not be a problem, high humidity = check, high temperatures = check. Since this palm is from tropical Brazil I will skip the refrigerator, I doubt they want to be cold.

Do you have any idea how long? Should I keep the ones I still have moist and see if they eventually germinate?

Thanks so much for answering.

I would keep the old seeds unless you notice some rot. I have had seeds germinate up to 3 years out.