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palm ID help

10 years ago

front look like a queen but I know it isn't

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  • 10 years ago

    Sure looks like a Queen Palm.

  • 10 years ago

    Queen palm

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    all the queens ive seen as in the photo above that ive had or have had 15 at my last house current 4 in my front yard and they all have the long base of the fronds that fall off after you cut the frond off. this tree dosent have this at all. the frond are wispy the same

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    The picture above appears to be a Foxtail Palm. Foxtail Palms are self-cleaning palms. Queen palms are not.

  • 10 years ago

    Hi

    Have grown a lot of Queens from seed and still have 10 growing 5 in my yard and 5 through the neighborhood. They range from under 10 to over 30 feet. The crown vary from 8 to over 30 fronds with much variation in the width of the trunk. Wouldn't believe they were the same palm except i know they are lol They were all started from a neighbors from seeds collected at the same time . in 01. All but 3 are larger than the mother plant which I know to be over 30. Incredible variation . gary

  • 10 years ago

    Both pics are Queen Palms, Syagrus romanzoffiana. They can vary in appearance. They have a huge range from Brazil to Paraguay and Uruguay so there are many forms. They also can vary from the care they are given.


    Foxtail Palms have a smooth green crownshaft at the top of the trunk like Royal Palms. Queens do not.

  • 10 years ago

    Thanks eric learned somthing. From the base of the fronds. I thought it wasnt a queen. The first i noticed like this. And yes it has to be trimmed

  • 10 years ago

    Queen palm but old name was cocoas plumoses (not sure of spelling on that?)

  • 10 years ago

    Most Queen Palms have a medium trunk and grow fast to about 20ft then slow down. In older neighborhoods you can see Queen Palms 40ft tall or more.

    The form from southern Brazil and northern Uruguay is more cold hardy and has a very thick and stocky trunk and dark green leaves. We have some specimens here at Leu Gardens that was grown from wild collected seed in Paraguay. These have slender trunks and grew fast to about 10ft and slowed. They are nice, smaller-scale Queen Palms.

  • 10 years ago

    Queen Palms were first classified as Cocos plumosa then later renamed Arecastrum romanzoffianum. They were once again renamed to the currently accepted taxonomic name Syagrus romanzoffiana.

  • 10 years ago

    Thanks for this info, everyone. I used to have several of these in my yard - planted when the house was new in the 1950s, but all have since died off. I knew them as 'coco palms' & was frustrated when I could not find any images under that name. Now I know what to call them.

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