Palm help

[Jo A P]

I have to admit that I find it hard to distinguish between palms especially chamaerops, trachycarpus and washingtonia. I know that the chamaerops has spines down the 'stalk' of the frond and the Trachycarpus doesn't. I suppose if I saw all of them together I would see the difference, but I would n't bet on it.

How do you tell them apart? If there's already a thread explaining just point the way.

[kata]

Your like me Jo,

I know Phoenix canariensis_CIDP, I know the Trachicarpus and thats a mind field on its own. Loads of varieties of Trachicarpus x this variety etc..

Look here:

http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/qsearch.do?pla ... uickSearch

Those are all Trachicarpus families just to confuse us even more.

chamaerops; my way of telling that one is they have fur on them which I hate.

Just add palms to search here Jo.

[Jo A P]

Thanks Kata. It's telling the difference between the 3 I mentioned as someone has offered me some seedlings and doesn't know the name of the palm. I'll have a root around Kew and see what I can find.

[kata]

Does this help Jo?

This is one of mine (above) a seedling really.

A Washingtonia.

And a chamaerops.