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Is This Licuala fordiana?

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Trying to identify this Licuala.  Your help would greatly be appreciated.

 

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Huntington Beach, CA

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Sunset Zone 24

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Looks like one, Joe. I have one too and it looks the same. 

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13 hours ago, Jim in Los Altos said:

Looks like one, Joe. I have one too and it looks the same. 

How does L fordiana perform in your temperate climate Jim? I’ve always been on the lookout for this one due to its reported cool hardiness, but never seen it available here. 

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Looks reminiscent of what I bought as fordiana Joe.

Slow for us Tim but that's an occupational hazzard when you grow palms without much heat.  Always looks pretty happy and free of the dreaded brown tips! 

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3 hours ago, richnorm said:

Looks reminiscent of what I bought as fordiana Joe.

Slow for us Tim but that's an occupational hazzard when you grow palms without much heat.  Always looks pretty happy and free of the dreaded brown tips! 

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Woah that’s awesome! Who cares if it’s slow growing when it looks as perfect as that, nice job Rich. I have to try to get my hands on one. 
 

I assume L fordiana require a fair bit of shade? Searching for extra heat, I made the mistake of putting my L peltata sumawongii and L ramsayi in morning to midday sun on an east facing wall. Fried them. The sumawongii is no more and the ramsayi may never recover. 

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Patterson Lakes, bayside Melbourne, Australia

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2005 Minimum: 2.6C,  Maximum: 44C

2005 Average: 17.2C, warmest on record.

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Woah that’s awesome! Who cares if it’s slow growing when it looks as perfect as that, nice job Rich. I have to try to get my hands on one. 
 

I assume L fordiana require a fair bit of shade? Searching for extra heat, I made the mistake of putting my L peltata sumawongii and L ramsayi in morning to midday sun on an east facing wall. Fried them. The sumawongii is no more and the ramsayi may never recover. 

Hard to tell as I only have one which is in dappled light. I would love to have more to experiment.   Lanonia dasyantha seems trouble free and can take a bit of sun.

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On 3/24/2021 at 9:40 PM, joe_OC said:

Trying to identify this Licuala.  Your help would greatly be appreciated.

 

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On 3/25/2021 at 3:22 AM, Jim in Los Altos said:

Looks like one, Joe. I have one too and it looks the same. 

Question to both of you, have you had them long and how are they performing?  Jim is yours in the ground yet and what sort of placement if so?  It is the smaller in fill plants that I have room for now.  Not really any spots for canopy producing plants until I have to remove an existing plant(s) so this looks like a nice candidate for the understory spots.

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7 hours ago, Tracy said:

 

Question to both of you, have you had them long and how are they performing?  Jim is yours in the ground yet and what sort of placement if so?  It is the smaller in fill plants that I have room for now.  Not really any spots for canopy producing plants until I have to remove an existing plant(s) so this looks like a nice candidate for the understory spots.

Tracy - Should do well for you in shade.  Len has a nice planting of them in his courtyard.

 

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On 3/26/2021 at 7:26 AM, Tracy said:

 

Question to both of you, have you had them long and how are they performing?  Jim is yours in the ground yet and what sort of placement if so?  It is the smaller in fill plants that I have room for now.  Not really any spots for canopy producing plants until I have to remove an existing plant(s) so this looks like a nice candidate for the understory spots.

These are tough palm mine gets sun til about 1130 am . It was  greener in more shade. Been  in  the ground around 6yrs? from a I gallon. I Just noticed it is holding onto 2 unripe seeds.

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4 minutes ago, akamu said:

These are tough palm mine gets sun til about 1130 am . It was  greener in more shade. Been  in  the ground around 6yrs? from a I gallon.

Thank you for the "intel" Adam.  Looks like something I should start trying to find.  Also something that others in our area should consider as an understory addition if they haven't already planted it.

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11 minutes ago, Tracy said:

Thank you for the "intel" Adam.  Looks like something I should start trying to find.  Also something that others in our area should consider as an understory addition if they haven't already planted it.

Licuala is such a cool genus right now my favorite of the 7 species I am growing is the licuala distans great grower in deep shade. 20210405_174213.thumb.jpg.27976e5c195625a8f5a88a47f2bf2bf6.jpg

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