I'd never heard of
Orange Crownshaft Palm (Areca vestiaria) but what a cool palm it is! Congratulations on finding it beneath the Syngonium, it's a real beauty!
We are back at our home in Sebastian and boy, what a year away will do to a property! My nephew was taking care of mowing, edging and pool upkeep the past 15 months but nothing more. I knew we had Syngonium taking over one area but boy, I had no idea it would completely consume the area in that time. It's trailing along the ground, covering shrubbery and climbing trees and I noticed today some of it attached to a deck at the back of the property, traveling along the railing and on the floor.
We have Epipremnum aureum climbing two trees and a couple of long vines dangling down to the ground and trailing along the ground in one area and, I found
Twoleaf Nightshade (Solanum diphyllum) and
Brazilian Pepper Tree (Schinus terebinthifolia) sprouting up in many places. I also noticed lots of sword ferns here and there on the property!
I am so afraid of getting out into that mess because I'm afraid of snakes! My sister and brother in law (just down the street) have their property backing up to a preserve area and they saw a rattlesnake and a moccasin recently and then last week the next door neighbors young 4 year old son saw a 5 foot rattlesnake in their driveway and ran to get his mom. My brother in law grabbed a machete and my nephew got a shovel and went over and killed it. Another neighbor also found a rattlesnake in their backyard last week too. We have a resident 5 foot black racer that's been around a few years; I saw it a few weeks ago and although it always startles me, it's a good one to have around. I'd probably have a heart attack if I came across a rattlesnake and I'm so worried about the dogs being out in the yard with snakes around. I'm hoping I can talk my husband into hiring someone to come clear out the wooded areas of some of the weeds and overgrowth and get rid of the Brazilian Pepper trees and Syngonium. We have a pine tree that the top was cut off of a couple of years ago when we had all the oaks trimmed but I wouldn't let them take it all the way down because it's completely encircled by a huge Staghorn Fern ... unfortunately, the Syngonium has climbed up that pine and is now overtaking the Staghorn.
