Palm query

This is some type of palm which I have been growing in a pot for a number of years. It has become hardier and hardier and has been left outside for some years now without any ill effects
Today I decided to plant it out in the Mediterranean garden
It seems to be a shrub rather than a tree
I have seen it on holiday in Majorca
Can anybody give me a name for it?

 

Looks like chamaerops humilis.
Its pretty hardy these days, but it never makes a tree, nice shrub for a sunny spot.

 

Never say Never

I am having a go and you can buy them as trees.



Chamaerops humilis 'Cerifera' available from mulu for only �£1000 :eek: :D

 

My plant is multi stemmed .... not a bit like that �£1000 monster
Hi BM ... are you sure yours ain't a Trachycarpus?
:D

 

What are you suggesting ? That I, Bananan Man, might be wrong !!! :D I cut off all the smaller stems and concentrate on the largest.

 

hehehe
Never occured to me. Honest!!

 

BM, thats not a TREE, its a standard :D :D

Must say I've never seen one like that, I've seen cerifera before but multi stemmed.
I cant say I like them much, the stems are really awful.I could find a better way of spending a thousand quid.
If you want a palm that looks tree like, I reckon its best to get one that grows naturally tree like.
Yours looks good at the moment, have you removed many stems, I bet you rip your hands to shreds doing it.

 

This is mine, its grown from seed sown in 1983 and its been planted there for ten years or more, I dont think it will make a tree somehow.

 

Hi pete, yes I don't like those stems at all, I wonder how old they must be ? I removed all the other stems before I planted it so it was easy to avoid the nasty barbs. As for the numerous attempts it makes to regrow new stems, they are easy to cut off early. I gave it a hair cut yesterday and am always surprised at how prickly it is. Almost as pickly as my Dasylirion glaucophyllum I picked up on saturday. :rolleyes:

Yours is all the better for being sown by yourself. Its easy to buy well looked after palms but to grow them from seed is most cool Did I tell you I have a Filibusta coming on wednesday a washy hybrid

 

No, but I'm interested.
Going for now though speak tomorrow

 

Whots a Filabusta?

 

A Filibusta? A bloke wot breaks in female 'orses, ennit? :D :D

 

It is said to be....

... a hybrid between Washingtonia palms (filifera x robusta)to combine the best characteristics of both, being more tolerant of cold and wet than either.

The trunk is stout and fat, the leaves large and green and cold tolerance is potentially spectacular. Historically, of the two common species W. filifera is more tolerant of frost, to around minus 10C or so, whereas W. robusta is less hardy, to around minus 8C, but copes better in wetter conditions. Records show W. filifera x robusta to be tolerant of frost to a remarkable minus 14C or below, and we can presume it to be tolerant of wet too.

We shall see, pics to follow :D

 

Wow! Sounds too good to be true! Any idea of its tolerance of dry conditions, BM? (Just thinking of our summers here with hosepipe bans and temperatures up to 40 degrees on occasion!)

Could get quite big, though, in the right conditions, couldnt it? Don't they grow to sixty feet or so in the wild? That'd give my neighbour apoplexy!!! :D

 

Hi I leave mine multi stemmed think they look nice especially when they're mature, but you can cut them off if you like and just have a single stem.