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Hullo everyone! Could you help me identify this palm? Thank you.

http://cjoint.com/?lkldFG16Lz

Might be easier if we could see the whole plant.
Try carotagigas sp
Verschaffeltia sp
Licuala sp
But more information please
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

On 10 Nov, 13:52, Charlie Pridham wrote:
Might be easier if we could see the whole plant.
Try carotagigas sp

Caryota mitis - no doubt. Charlie, you are incredible. Thank you so so
much. I'll have a word with the owner - there's no 'trunk', more like
branches from the ground up. I was only given a leaf, see. Hope all is
well with you and yours. This place still rocks. I'll be back )

On Nov 10, 4:45 pm, wrote:
On 10 Nov, 13:52, Charlie Pridham wrote:

Might be easier if we could see the whole plant.
Try carotagigas sp

Caryota mitis - no doubt. Charlie, you are incredible. Thank you so so
much. I'll have a word with the owner - there's no 'trunk', more like
branches from the ground up. I was only given a leaf, see. Hope all is
well with you and yours. This place still rocks. I'll be back )

I knew Charlie would know, Charlie want some of my Datura seeds ???

Judith

In article 43054d9d-aa59-4d96-8744-
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says...
On Nov 10, 4:45 pm, wrote:
On 10 Nov, 13:52, Charlie Pridham wrote:

Might be easier if we could see the whole plant.
Try carotagigas sp

Caryota mitis - no doubt. Charlie, you are incredible. Thank you so so
much. I'll have a word with the owner - there's no 'trunk', more like
branches from the ground up. I was only given a leaf, see. Hope all is
well with you and yours. This place still rocks. I'll be back )

I knew Charlie would know, Charlie want some of my Datura seeds ???

Judith

No thanks it took 3 years to eradicate the last time!!
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

Amazing! I grow Caryota mitis as an indoor plant, C. gigas 'Himalaya'
indoors and out depending upon the weather, Arenga engleri and
micrantha outside in the border and Wodyetia bifurcata indoors. All
of them have very similar shaped leaflets at certain ages and when
divorced from the plant are almost indistinguishable. There are a
fair number of other 'fishtail palms' with similar leaflets too
depending upon maturity. The pic is far too vague to make a call,
although it is fair to say that since C. mitis is the commonest,
there's a likelihood, but no certainty that the pic is of one of its
leaflets. Unless of course, the label is in the pot with the rest of
the plant that we did not see.

On Nov 10, 7:39 pm, Dave Poole wrote:
Amazing! I grow Caryota mitis as an indoor plant, C. gigas 'Himalaya'
indoors and out depending upon the weather, Arenga engleri and
micrantha outside in the border and Wodyetia bifurcata indoors. All
of them have very similar shaped leaflets at certain ages and when
divorced from the plant are almost indistinguishable. There are a
fair number of other 'fishtail palms' with similar leaflets too
depending upon maturity. The pic is far too vague to make a call,
although it is fair to say that since C. mitis is the commonest,
there's a likelihood, but no certainty that the pic is of one of its
leaflets. Unless of course, the label is in the pot with the rest of
the plant that we did not see.

Duh Dave, why is it that you make me feel insignificant - nooo, don't
answer :-)

Judith

Judith wrote:

Duh Dave, why is it that you make me feel insignificant - nooo, don't
answer :-)


Now you're making me feel guilty Judith. The point I was trying to
make is that as unusual as that leaf shape may appear to be, it is
quite common amongst certain Asiatic palms. The shape of the half
leaf shown is possibly more characteristic of Caryota, but several of
the others are extremely similar in their post-seedling stages. I had
Arenga micrantha from a 2 leaved seedling and although it now has
rather long ragged-edged leaflets, for 2 years it looked just like a
large leaved Caryota. A better pic would have been of the entire
plant or at least a complete leaf showing the arrangement of the
leaflets. However, probability indicates it is C. mitis since it is
the most commonly available.