Chamaedorea microspadix is more prone to damage from slugs & snails in my experience, but both are reasonably hardy. Kev ...

i had a Microspadix but one of my family members fell over and completely flattened it and hurt themselves in the process but the trunk was snapped

I also have one Ch.microspadix beside the Ch.radicalis under canopy and it also seems to be
very tough against frost. No damage so far at -5/-6 C°.
But I don't think it can take lower temperatures than that. It just might be the border line.

Marcel

I was wondering about these microspadix too, a couple have been sat in pots for 18 months with the intention of planting them under the canopy of trees I have here in semi-shade. One thing and another they never got planted out this year. ...

The problem with microspadix is that it is a martyr to slugs and snails. The leaves of radicalis are very tough and virtually mollusc resistant. I've grown several radicalis outside here for a good 15 years or so and they withstood ...

I'm trying Chamaedorea Microspadix from seed, supposed to be reasonably hardy. I sowed them a couple of days ago.

... another spear now. http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/4294/7htl.jpg Chamaedorea microspadix - Opening new leaves all over the plant. http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/2598/bpf9.jpg ...

My Chamaedorea microspadix has some appearing...

... bagged in cold spells. The other lurk under shrubs. All of my outside ones have survived, although a bit battered by constant Arctic gales. C microspadix is supposedly hardier, but the same applies. Mine is under the shelter of the open north facing porch, so no radiation freezes, but even ...

Supposedly Chamaedorea microspadix is a little hardier than Chamaedorea and looks like a cross between a palm and bamboo. I'm actually ...

What's the tree top left in the Chamaedorea microspadix pic? Looks a bit like Schinus molle but not quite right. Your right Conifers it is a Schinus ...

Conifers wrote:What's the tree top left in the Chamaedorea microspadix pic? Looks a bit like Schinus molle but not quite right.

Your right Conifers it is a Schinus molle.
We have hundreds of these trees growing in Christchurch.

What's the tree top left in the Chamaedorea microspadix pic? Looks a bit like Schinus molle but not quite right.

... the ground ) http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/3204/butiaodorata1000.png Chamaedorea microspadix http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/4828/chamaedoreamicrospadix1.png Chamaedorea ...

... To be honest it hardly grew, looked bad and sulked most of the time. It was planted under evergreen shrubs in dappled shade (well protected) c microspadix ? I will never know-grew 2 beautiful plants through the summer only to be stripped of foliage by birds in 3 weeks-no surprise they died ...