Jubaea chilensis. A palm tree from Chile that makes miniature coconuts. A very beautiful tree that can get huge.I have two seedlings.It's supposed to be quite cold hardy but the trouble is that it grows very slow. From seed to fruit production can take anywhere between 50 and 80 years. Now that's a new record. I don't know any other tree where you have to wait that long. So best case scenario i will be 92 years old when the tree starts to flower! Truly a tree that you plant for the next generation, unless i manage to unlock the secret to immortality.....
I weeded all my malus sieversii trees and i lost quite a few to what i believe was a combination of deer, rabbit and rodent attacks. I think i lost between one fourth and one third of the 426 plants i grew from seed. I discovered some visually very amazing and different ones in two of the six seed batches. I singled out several unique ones that i planted in my polytunnel to grow them properly. I didn't have the time to protect the 426 as i would have liked to. All trees of the 4 other batches have basically green leaves. Here is one example. This is a very nice green leaved one. And another green leaved one. Already these two are different in leaf colour and shape. But i selected them from the batches where all had green leaves in order to be sure to have genetic diversity. I kept 18 seedlings in the polytunnel that contain some of every batch. The following ones are very special and unique and display many variations of red and green and even other colours. One seedling with nice
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