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hello I found this guys selling these they call them compact butia capitata. It looks like a hybrid or mutation? Can anyone give me some more input. I like the way it looks may get one. Heres 2 pics one is of an adult and the other is of a regular pindo and the pindo hybrid next to it.
These palms are variable enough and develop differently, even leaf color can be green or a silver blue. I personally don't see anything "compact" about them.
Did you see the short leaves of the adult? Also he says that they are not steril but that the adult produces only a couple seeds if any. They are very white also.
These palms are variable enough and develop differently, even leaf color can be green or a silver blue. I personally don't see anything "compact" about them.
This is very true. Butia's grow like weeds here. A butia grown in full sun can look like a completely different species of palm than one grown in shade.
Butia's grown in full sun will be very full & compact. Butia's grown in shade will be much tinner & leggy looking with much longer fronds.
Looks like a variety called Butia bonnetti. It's lineage supposedly traces back to a single capitata with unusual dwarfing characteristics discovered some thirty odd years ago. Some growers have gone out of their way to preserve it's special characteristics.
