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Dave Poole wrote:

They are desperately slow in putting on trunk height Clare - about a
couple of inches per year at best - even in their native environment.
Kept in a heated greenhouse, they will make more than twice that
amount, but generally produce slender trunks as a result. ...

To put that into perspective, many trees put on only 6" a year and are
merely called slow-growing - and those trees often have 8' of
'twig-like' growth about the 'trunk-like' (16 years!) Similarly,
clump-forming plants like Danae racemosa may spread sideways at only
1/2" a year!

How long do they take from a small plant to a full-width trunk with
a good shower of leaves? I was under the impresion that it is faster
than often thought.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.