Hi Scott, looks like a Phoenix Robelenii...the smaller Phoenix species.

Ben

FUnny thing - The conservatory here has a plant that looks identical to that labeled "phoenix canariensis". After some googling, it turns out it is misnamed. By the time Canary island date palms produce a trunk, the leaves are already 10 feet long, and the trunk is at least 3 times as wide as the one in your pic, or at the place here.

Its a pygmy date palm, and a bloody big one at that....

Ya know... the kid told me they had two smaller ones and (I'm sure my eyes got big) and this place had all kinds of palms crammed together but he pulled one out and said it was $40.00 and I said I would take it. He then said there was a 2nd one so I could compare so pulled it out and then noticed both had multapal trunks and I realized the small ones were Pygmy date palms. Pygmy date palms that size can be bought anywhere around here starting at less than $10. I thought at least the big palm either really was a single Pygmy Date palm that just was really huge, or was of a different species. I mean, it has the "pineapple" at the very top.

Looking at Phil's site at Jungle Music just now under Pygmy date palms it does look just like this.....

Agree PDP.
They're usually done in sets of 3-5 seeds per pot.
I bet if you dig down a few inches on that tall spindly single one, there'll be a couple or three stumps.

I like the single look.

Barb

I like the single look too Barb, and there are a couple of nurseries her in Omaha that sell single truck specimens but even those are just 2 feet of clear trunk.

These I could stand under, and I'm 6' They had other cool stuff so next time I'm there I'll have to ask for curiosity sake ask what they cost.

just 2 feet of clear trunk

I'd opt for one of these.

You could recline under one of them 😆

Barb

Even if that big one was something I could afford I have no idea how I would get it home. Too tall even for my truck, and that nursery is 60 miles from my house 🙁

how I would get it home. Too tall even for my truck, and that nursery is 60 miles from my house

only 60 miles?
sheesh, one January I drove 100 miles just to LOOK at a different nursery 😆
Wrap in a huge sheet of painter's drop cloth, and lay it down in the truck

You're not crazy enough yet, Scott. 😉

Agree, not crazy enough.
Plan on a road trip with your truck down to Dallas for the farmers market. Then you'll be crazy enough.
http://youtu.be/vYzG5BzNvyA

Barb, 60 miles is nothing to me to get a deal, but I would have to rent a cube van to get that palm home. No way I could bring it home exposed that far even in nice weather.

Scott, you've gotta get to know a trucker...

Erik, I remember that video, what happened to the audio (wanted to hear you).
Thank goodness that Dallas isn't within 200 miles of me... 😉

Barb

Barb, my son who was tired of hearing me talk about palms covered over it. 😆
This, year, I think we'll go all the way to Houston/Gulf coast.

It actually FELT good to see that video again Erik.
All those palms swaying in the wind. 😀

I think we'll go all the way to Houston/Gulf coast.

sounds like a great trip...and palms 😀

Barb

Scott, you've gotta get to know a trucker...

Barb

This is key 😀 I work in a steel mill so a truck hauling steel only has a load in the center. the rest of the trailor is free, they have offered to bring me all kinds of things for free before. if I catch one heading south in the spring I am def getting them to bring back a large palm or 2. the rest ill grab myself. there good people to know.