Use this forum to discuss matters relating to Areca, Bismarckia, Brahea, Jubaea, Parajubaea, Phoenix and other Palm species. This is where one posts unknown plant photos for ID help.
Thought I would post some palms I see on my daily commute. Nothing to rare or fancy. I have seen a few that are a little more exotic, I just haven’t had a chance to photograph them. The names I use may be wrong I’m going by what locals call them. The tall clumping palm is what I really want to know about, I really like the looks of it, and would like to plant one. Sorrry about the power lines I’m some of the pics, these are along one of the main roads so they were unavoidable.
Really want to know what type of palm this is.
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The base of the clump.
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Two queen palms a little to close to that house in my opinion.
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Two nice date palms.
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These are the most common palm I see around town.
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These are fairly common as well.
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The first one would be very rare to the bay area. It's a Florida native that's seen in soucal like the Huntington. Local bay area palm aficionados must have them,but I've never seen a post or photo of them showing it.
Nice A.columnaris in the background. Here,the Araucaria really stand out when you take BART..our local raised monorail. In Hayward they and Redwoods and W.robusta vie for tallest tree's in the landscape. A few Blue Gums compete with them.
I thought you had misidentified the Araucaria, at first glance as most around here are heterophylla, not columnaris, but you are indeed correct, I paid closer attention when I drove by and it is definitely not heterophylla, good eye. The Norfolk’s are everywhere around here, people buy them at Christmas for decoration and then plant then when they outgrow the tiny pots they are sold in. They seem to do well, my neighborhood is only 11 years old and there are at least 2 on my street that are 30-40 feet tall.
Here are a few more palms growing in front of a local nursery. The overcast days don’t make for very good pictures.
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The smaller one i was guessing as a silver Bismarck, the silver doesn’t come through in the photo, but it was very eye catching. Is it possible to grow the Acoelorrhaphe wrightii or any other clumping palm from one of the offsets? How do you go about separating it safely? I have tried with a pygmy date palm, and it was not successful.
I’ll have to take some local shots once the sun finally comes back out. I’m renting down near NASA’s Johnson Space Center and there are a lot of Palms around from the areas heyday in the 60’s and 70’s.
Well I know with the sago palm you use a shovel against the trunk and pry the tiny pups off. Some might have roots others won’t. I got some a few months ago off a vacant lot were the mother plant had died off. They put out new fronds right after two weeks later. Put them in small pots with potting mix and barely buried them. Watered them and it can take months before anything happens. One died shortly after the hurricane so have three left. Time will tell I guess.. the Bismarck’s are all over Disney and are huge! One of my many favorite palms.. small one planted here at the beach but the hurricane blew it over and sat that way for awhile then cold weather lately for lows it isn’t looking so great. It’s seen 30 degrees at least a few times.
Meangreen94z that are around NASA is nice. I kept a sailboat on Clear Lake when I lived in Houston, that was years ago but lots of nice palms around there.
Stan, the folded fronds on the first Bismarck are probably from the wind, 20-30 (and up to 50 mph) winds are common year round In Corpus.
