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Jody, do Bottle palms have the yellow stripe on the back of the stem? I have never seen a young bottle palm, just wondering. In Barb's pic I can see a...

He believes it's a Licuala grandis. Yes, I agree. The browning on the leaves is probably due to a lack of humidity.Now a NEW mystery palm#2 (found ha...

Here are some photos of Cuba. The wife and I had a great time. She was a real trooper helping me collect seeds and putting bandaids on my bleeding han...

Also stopped by a nursery. The lady didn't know what this plant was & neither do I. Looks like a cordy, but not really sure. She said it is tropic...

Barb, can you send more photos of your mystery palm? I have a couple ideas of what it might be...Jody

Would you guess their ages at several hundred years? Based on data taken from plants growing in dooryard gardens in Honduras, that large Dioon mejiae...

Nice, Jody. Is it customary that E.whitlockii is so nice and tall The leaves of this species are naturally quite upright. However, as the plant ages...

I have a couple Encephalartos flushing at the moment. I thought you all might like to see them...E. whitelockiiE. villosus (with some E. laurentianus ...

Any guess on age for that Palatka Giant in Jody's pic?What a shame these coonties aren't retained as urban/rural sprawl continues.You'd think people w...

It does take the life cycle of the scale into account, because (1) the alkyloids continue to leach out of the coffee grounds for some time, and (2) th...

Yes, he does use dry grounds as a top-dress mulch. But the alkyloids are not released until water is applied. And yes, the idea is to kill the scale i...

There seems to be a native population listed in S.E. Georgia I also found that reference when I was preparing my Florida coontie "expedition" a few y...

Speaking of coontie, I thought you all might like to see a photo of a decent-sized Palatka Giant plant (they do get larger than this!) in someone's ya...

Her name is Barb. Typo... sorry.