Syagrus macrocarpa

Syagrus macrocarpa
Maria Rosa Palm

A medium-sized palm from southeastern Brazil with a slender trunk to 8 m (27 ft.) tall, topped by a crown of beautiful, elegantly arching, feathery leaves with curly leaflets. Syagrus macrocarpa is a highly ornamental palm, as easy and rewarding to grow as the Queen Palm, and has enormous potential for horticulture. It will easily adapt to cultivation in warm temperate as well as tropical areas. As one of the rarest of all Syagrus, both in the wild where it faces the threat of extinction and in cultivation, seeds of this species are hardly ever available.

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Seeds from this species ...

...difficult to germinate and need up to 1 year to sprout.
Soaked the seeds for one week in tap water and placed them in a freezer bag with filled with peat moss wetted with a fungicide solution. Seeds were kept outside in the shade during the summer (~ 80 F to 95 F)and inside during the winter (~ 60 F to 80 F). Two seeds germinated within 3 months, 3 seeds within 6 months and 3 within 12 months. I still expect the last two seeds to germinate. A wetter medium seems to improve the germintion rate on this variety but be sure and use sufficient fungicide.
Submitted on 05/06/105 by Don Truman truman@icsi.net


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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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