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[*] posted on 5-12-2013 at 01:29 PM
Blue Palm/Bismarck bloom


I have never been able to figure out if this was a blue palm(which is what we thought when we bought it) or Bismarck but it is in bloom and here are the pix
Any palm experts out there?

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[*] posted on 5-12-2013 at 01:32 PM
One more


Whacha think?

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[*] posted on 5-12-2013 at 01:51 PM


I would say you have a bismarckia nobilis. Nice bloom! Ours is 8 years old and no blooms yet.

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http://www.palmpedia.net/wiki/Bismarckia_nobilis




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[*] posted on 5-12-2013 at 03:23 PM


Hey Jefe, I think you are right.
We think ours is about 10 years old.
Stop by in a few months for some seeds!




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[*] posted on 5-12-2013 at 08:17 PM


I agree it's a bismarckia. Ours has had lots of seeds for the last several years, but they have been infertile. Apparently, no male trees around or the bees haven't been doing their job.

Fertile seeds are almost the size of a golf ball.
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[*] posted on 5-13-2013 at 10:23 AM
Today's pic


Here is what it looks like today.
Pretty little yellow flowers coming out.

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[*] posted on 5-13-2013 at 10:27 AM
Two of the four pods




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[*] posted on 5-13-2013 at 10:30 AM


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Originally posted by john68
I agree it's a bismarckia. Ours has had lots of seeds for the last several years, but they have been infertile. Apparently, no male trees around or the bees haven't been doing their job.

Fertile seeds are almost the size of a golf ball.

There are 100's of them in the Puerto Los Cabos marina gardens so maybe we will be lucky and get some seeds.
I saw a pic of the seeds and thought that they looked big, but didnt know they were that big.
I will post pix as the pods change.




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[*] posted on 5-13-2013 at 10:39 AM
This is not my palm


But I found this image on line

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[*] posted on 5-13-2013 at 11:10 AM


Judy,

Here is a Blue Palm with "fruit" at Rancho Santa Ynez.




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[*] posted on 5-13-2013 at 11:28 AM


Ken
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Do you have a shot of the whole tree?
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[*] posted on 5-13-2013 at 11:55 AM


Judy, Yours is definitely a Bismarkia, the giveaway is the way the leaves spiral out of the petiole, also Bismarkias are a lot more robust than a blue fan palm.

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[*] posted on 5-13-2013 at 02:00 PM


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Ken
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Do you have a shot of the whole tree?
Thanks


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