Areca vestiaria (Maroon)

Areca vestiaria (Maroon)

A spectacular and greatly desired but very rare variety of the well-known Indonesian palm. It sports a red to maroon emergent leaf that holds its color for weeks before it fades to a dark, faintly mottled green. The crownshaft and the leaf midribs are also reddish maroon, as opposed to orange in the regular form. Somewhat sensitive to cold, it is best suited to tropical climates. Seeds are pregerminated and will be shipped moist.

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Seeds from this species ...

...very easy to germinate.
just opened my shipment and these arrived 80% germinated when i opened it up, some had shoots and roots 3/4 " long!
Submitted on 24/06/2004 by bobbie o'donnell bebobbieo@netzero.com

...difficult to germinate and need up to 3 months to sprout.
Seeds were ordered from Rarepalmseeds. I soaked ten seeds in warm tap water for three days with daily water changes. The seeds were then placed in a 50-50 mix of Miracle Grow Potting Mix and perlite. I tried to keep these seeds a bit more moist than most other species given their habitat. Heat was maintained by keeping the container outside. One seed of the ten germinated. The seedling is a fairly slow grower (like most Arenga), with the first leaf being entire, and subsequent leaves becoming pinnate. My low germination rate may have been from too much heat.
Submitted on 10/03/2003 by Jason C. Skelly Skellsbells@aol.com


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If you wish to read more on palm cultivation, we highly recommend Ornamental Palm Horticulture by Timothy K. Broschat and Alan W. Meerow, available in our bookshop.

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We recommend:

Martius, Book of Palms
by H. Walter Lack

Hardcover - 450 pages
19.8 x 13.5 inches!
11.1 pounds!
50 x 34 cm, 5 kg

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Suitable for: all

Martius's magnificent work on the varieties of palm tree. This epic folio was based on Martius's expedition to Brazil and Peru with zoologist Johann Baptist von Spix. From 1817 to 1820 the pair travelled over 2,250 km (1,400 miles) throughout the Amazon Basin, the most species-rich palm region in the world, collecting and sketching specimens.
In his epic work, Martius outlined the modern classification of palm, produced the first maps of palm biogeography, described all the palms of Brazil, and collated the sum of all known genera of the palm family. For apart from his own collection of specimens and notes, Martius also wrote about the findings of others.
Martius's folio is unusual in its inclusion of cross-sectioned diagrams, conveying the architecture of these mighty trees. Equally remarkable are the color landscapes showing various palms—often standing alone—which have a simple and elegant beauty. This famous work is an unrivaled landmark in botanic illustration and taxonomy.

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