Need help on Palm ID

Greetings,

I need help identifying these two young palms before I settle on a place to plant them.

I collected them as seeds about 5 years ago while on a trip to the Huntington Library & Gardens in San Marino, California. I was only collecting seeds of unusual palms since I have plenty of the more common Queens in the yard already.

They are about 4 or 5 years old and about 18 high. The most notable thing about them is the spike like buds that are growing around the bottom. Ive peeled the dead material from the trunk to show them better. Any help would be great.

Thank You,

Daniel
Ventura, California

 

This palm is a Chamaedorea, pronounced kay-mee-DOR-ee-a. Not sure which species it would be, as there are quite a few with similar appearances.

Cheers, LPN.

 

Re: Palm ID Needed

Hi - you could try sending this note (and pix) to www.rarepalmseeds.com, and hope they can recognize it from your description and pictures.

 

Re: Palm ID Needed

One of the multistemmed species of Chamaedorea - perhaps C. pinnatifrons

 

Or, more realistically (given the Greek etymology), 'Kamm-eye-dor-ee-a'

 

We do speak funny here in North America ... lol
Cheers, LPN.

 

What's done is done, but I will point out that Huntington (like many other gardens, including UBC) has a "No removal of plants, flowers or fruit" policy.