I'm not sure what the first one is. It's a common landscaping palm in south Florida. The second may be a very young Christmas palm

Fun, thank you! : ) There's a little air plant on the small one. You probably already noticed.

I think the first one is a Pygmy Date Palm, Phoenix roebelenii.

Thank you, John. : )

If that's a Pygmy Date palm it must be pretty old LOL.
This is one of my new Licuala grands. I had a beautiful large one that was killed in 2010 when the greenhouse heater failed. They are pretty cold sensitive. I got his one about 4 years ago as a replacement, its starting to get the 'look' now. The round fronds

I agree on the Pygmy date palm, with a good trimming job on it. And certainly a Christmas palm, they get red fruit around Christmas, not many in my area, they get leaf damage below freezing too long.

Gina that is a cool looking palm, the fronds look like they were trimmed to be that shape, too bad you lost it.

This is the one I lost in 2010

The one above (in the previous post) is one of 3 new ones I have gotten to replace the old one. It takes L. grandis about 7 years to attain the size of the one I lost.

I have a variegated Christmas palm. Its your still, but its unique among variegated palms in that the bright red fruit produce variegated seedlings. Most variegated palms will not come true from seed, but the var. Adonidia does, 98-99% will be variegated

Oh Wow! Nice.

Seven years is pretty good, my L. grandis lasted maybe seven months.

I have a couple palms that are cold sensitive even in the greenhouse. Bottle Palm gets really sad at 38F. No way I could plant it out here and protect it. Spindle palm will take higher temps, but can't be planted out here. And none of the Licualas would make it even covered. My Pygmy Dates got badly burned in the Christmas freeze.
This is a Needle Palm, Rhaphidophyllum hystix. This is one of the most cold hardy palms on the planet. They are native to the coastal areas in the South. They have been known to take down to -9F without damage. They are called Needle palm because they are heavily armed with long spikes that come out on the trunk. Extremely slow growing. Our house has about 20, planted by the lady who built the house in 1987. My plant inspector told me that they are becoming scarce in the wild, due to over development in Florida, so if you have them on your property, its actually illegal to remove them.




These are Pindo Palms, also called Jelly Palms. Also extremely hardy, will go down to 5F. But capitata now But odorata. I planted these when we moved out here in 2002 so these are a little over 21 years old. They are extremely slow growing as well.

Wow, your jelly palms are slow growing. Mine grew much faster in SC where they were very common. Someone gave me some seedlings in gallon pots, probably around 2010, and by the time we moved in '18 they were pretty big. Hard to tell in this photo but they survived the surprise blizzard just fine. I had three this size and when the fronds were not weighted down with ice and snow they were about 12'.

I don't ever do anything to mine. No fertilizer, no water except rain. I guess they are just doing their own thing LOL

Calyptrocalyx yamutumune. A rare palm from wet tropical understory in New Guinea. Clustering, bifid entire fronds.
Even though this palm is over 10 years old it has not clustered or trunks yet. I suppose it's just slower in my greenhouse than in true tropics. If you look carefully it has a secret. Armed and dangerous. Long black spines on the frond edges

Chamaedorea geonomiformis. A small solitary palm from Mexico. Supposedly hardy to 25 F. I haven't tested that. Bifid leaves, this one is mature at 3 ft. All Chamaedorea require a male and a female plant to get fertile seeds. So all the seeds on this one will ever grow

Its really hard to get a photo of the entire plant here, because of the way the palm is growing and where it's planted. So I have frond and trunk.
Caryota zebrina, a species of 'fishtail' palm. This species comes from the montagne forest in New Guinea. It is solitary, only carries a scant 3-4 fronds at a time, in very slow growing, and considered difficult in cultivation. I have 2 and can say they are all these things.

They are a very attractive palm, the nicest thing being their striped trunk and petioles. Like most all of the Caryota, they are monocarpic. This means that they grow, bloom once, set seeds, then die. Kind of like a big annual that spans many seasons. Fortunately, this particular species will most likely outlive ME at this point. But many people in climates like South Florida will not plant fishtails like C. mitis, C. urens, and other more common fishtails outside because of this trait. They grow very fast, fruit, scatter seeds that all sprout new palms, then you have to chop a huge palm down, usually with a chainsaw.

C. zebrina would be a good palm for them, except it requires full shade.

Metroxyland

Metroxylon Vitiense

Very cool setting (waterscape.)

These are really hard to grow right?

Looks like they need swamp to grow in. Pretty picture.

There are 7 species of this palm I think, among them the 'true' Sago palm which is a palm and not a cycad. I have heard people in So FL say that Metroxylon is hard to grow even there