Jubaea palm growing in unusual place

targui · Post by **targui** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:07 pm

This large robust Jubaea palm was photographed growing out of the roof of a motel near the main street,
in King City, central California.

Yorkshire Kris · Post by **Yorkshire Kris** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:15 pm

This is in an even more unusual place to find a Jubaea, in Wakefield, UK (my garden! lol)

GoggleboxUK · Post by **GoggleboxUK** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:23 pm

Kris

Make sure you post a pic when yours is as big as that one in California, just get your grandkids to pull you out of the cryogenics tube.

Yorkshire Kris · Post by **Yorkshire Kris** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:25 pm

GoggleboxUK wrote: Kris

Make sure you post a pic when yours is as big as that one in California, just get your grandkids to pull you out of the cryogenics tube.

It'll be that big in 60 years and I may be around to see it.

greendragon · Post by **greendragon** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:09 pm

Kris I think the one at the top must be over 100 years old.

Phoenix canariensis_CIDP could get to that size in 60 years though.

Troppoz · Post by **Troppoz** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 11:08 pm

Thats a huge Jubaea!

I didnt realise that their crowns grew so large, it almost looks like a Phoenix canariensis_CIDP. I assume that the motel was built around what would have been a sizeable mature palm even back then.

dino · Post by **dino** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 8:25 am

That could be Kew in a few years. ( Don't know if they've moved there's yet)

Nathan · Post by **Nathan** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 12:33 pm

I don't think one in Yorkshire would get that big in 100 years, let alone 60!

Yorkshire Kris · Post by **Yorkshire Kris** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 12:47 pm

Nathan wrote:I don't think one in Yorkshire would get that big in 100 years, let alone 60!

I said that tongue in cheek.

Conifers · Post by **Conifers** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 1:20 pm

How do they water it? Earth floors in all the bedrooms, and no drainpipe from the washbasins??

Yorkshire Kris · Post by **Yorkshire Kris** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 1:24 pm

Conifers wrote:How do they water it?

Turn the tap on.

leunerj · Post by **leunerj** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 7:33 pm

Nathan wrote:I don't think one in Yorkshire would get that big in 100 years, let alone 60!

Speaking of... nothing more was ever heard from that guy (Henry?) in Yorkshire that planted the massive trunking Jubaea several years ago?

Yorkshire Kris · Post by **Yorkshire Kris** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 7:36 pm

leunerj wrote:
Nathan wrote:I don't think one in Yorkshire would get that big in 100 years, let alone 60!
Speaking of... nothing more was ever heard from that guy (Henry?) in Yorkshire that planted the massive trunking Jubaea several years ago?

some are still alive, some are not....

Nathan · Post by **Nathan** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:25 pm

Yorkshire Kris wrote:
leunerj wrote: Speaking of... nothing more was ever heard from that guy (Henry?) in Yorkshire that planted the massive trunking Jubaea several years ago?
some are still alive, some are not....

I wonder what ones are still alive & how healthy they are? A very expensive lesson, hate to think how much he spent on those!

billdango · Post by **billdango** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 11:18 pm

What happened to Henrys palms in Yorkshire ?

I would be interested to find out.

rgds billdango.

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