Re: Butia capitata, care for new palm?

> If you ever see one in fruit, check it out.  You
> won't be sorry.  For the
> ten years  plus that I was chief horticulturist at
> the Huntington Botanical
> Gardens, when the butias were in fruit I frequently
> made late afternoon
> sorties to the Palm Garden.   There were always
> fallen fruits around the
> base of the trees, and I looked around for the
> ripest ones, sampling a few
> from each plant.  I usually ended up stuffing myself
> to the degree that I
> couldn't eat dinner.  Just beating the other beasts
> to them.  ;-)
> 

THere are two small pretrunk juvenile Butias in an
industrial part of nearby Seaside. It's among the
"automall". I've got my eye on them. Though, it may be
years before they fruit.

Such a shame, it's a perfect medit-plants palm and
very different from both the Canary Island Dates and
the numerous ratty Fan Palms here. One street in Santa
Barbara has a wonderful row of them too (was there
this weekend). 

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