Palms and Cycads: An update on my palm addiction, 1 by palmbob

palmbob wrote:
This is another rarity, at least at this size here in California- a Syagrus schizophylla with 2' of trunk. Bought it last year with 2' of trunk (hasn't grown much)... found it in a nursery going out of business and was pretty cheap... one of the slowest Syagrus you can grow in California (there are slower, but not many). It lost most of its leaves in the freeze, but they were greenhouse leaves, so they were probaby going to lost anyway. These leave are new and wonderfully tough feeling- sort of like a cycad. Next to it, just in the pic, is Wallichia disticha, a much faster growing palm, and will be towering over this Syagrus in just another couple years. It had NO damage from the freeze.