Vahani

Native to Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands

Marquesas Palm 
 

    A mature plant of Pelagodoxa henryana showing the curious warty fruits 

      You are bidding one beautiful palm with vigorous root systems 3-4 feet tall with * leaves born and grown in Hawaii. This palm will ship in pot as shown.

             One of the world's rarest palms, Pelagodoxa henryana is one of the most sought after palms in the world due to their extreme beauty! Vahani is considered to be exceptionally attractive, displaying a dense crown of about 15 large undivided, pinnately veined leaves to over 2 meters in length and 1 meter in width on short unarmed petioles. The trunk is slender to about 10 meters in height and 15cms in diameter.

      Simply put, this palm is absolutely beautiful. Vahani develops magnificent large, barely split leaves with a striking white underside. With only 10-12 individuals left the Marquesas, this palm is basically extinct in the wild. 

      One of the most ornamental and unusual seeds of all palms, Vahani has large baseball-sized fruit that looks sort of like a large knobby Kong chew toy for a dog. The large fruits, to about 8cms in diameter, borne on short stout inflorescences within the leaf bases, are of unusual form: round with a corky-barnacled appearance, light brown in color and apparently reaching maturity only once having fallen to the ground. Fruits taken prior to this usually fail to germinate.

                  Vahani is an unarmed, solitary palm to 11 m height. The stem is up to 15 cm diameter, and the leaf scars are closely spaced. The leaves are large, undivided, pinnately ribbed with a bifid apex, and may extend to 3 m long and to about 1 m wide. The upper surface is green and glabrous, and the lower surface has a distinctive silvery glaucous bloom. The petiole is stout and short, to about 22 cm long. The leaf bases are densely tomentose, do not form a crown shaft but have a loose entanglement of fine fibers along the lower margins. It is monoecious, and the inflorescences are interfoliar, not extending beyond the leaves and paniculately branched.

Height: 12-15 ft. (3.6-4.7 m)

Hardiness: USDA Zone 11: above 4.5 °C (40 °F)

Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade

Fast grower  

         Taxonomically Vahani is included within Iguanurinae, a subtribe with numerous genera (about 26) occurring in the Southwest Pacific, West Pacific, South-East Asia and with other widely distributed genera such as Satakentia from the Ryukyu Islands to the south of Japan, Dictyosperma from the Mascarenes in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar and Bentinckia from South India. Pelagodoxa 's position within Iguanurinae is determined by the endocarp possessing an operculum, a cap covering the embryo of the seed, a feature shared only by Oncospermatinae, and not possessing armature or spines, unlike Oncospermatinae. The nearest relative to Pelagodoxa is Heterospathe but this affinity is tenuous as the nature of Pelagodoxa fruits isolate it somewhat within the Arecaceae.

Pelagodoxa henryana

Marquesas Palm 

          Polynesian Produce Stand           

  Shipping    

      We ship via USPS Mondays-Wednesday with Delivery confirmation.

            All live plants are Inspected By USDA Plant Inspectors before they are shipped to insure you get healthy pest free plants and seeds.

   All live plants are shipped bare-root wrapped in moist sphagnum moss to ensure the plant’s healthy transit to you.

ATTENTION INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS!

         We can ship live plants to the US only. All International shipments are at Buyer's Risk.

             INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING ON LIVE PLANTS is available only under these conditions! All international orders are shipped at the buyers risk  (shipped with or without documents) and no refunds or replacements are offered for Dead On Arrival, loss, confiscation, Customs Seizure, unanticipated charges, etc.

We ship Seeds Internationally.

         The additional charge for any phytosanitary certificate is not included in this offer.

              For foreign customers, please check your laws concerning permitting and customs, additional shipping and handling costs may apply.

   Payment

            We accept online payments only through PayPal, Cash payments are only acceptable for in-person payments and cash-on-delivery (COD). Cash payment can not be sent through the mail.

      Please only one Paypal payment. SO THE COMBINED SHIPPING RULE WILL CAN BE USED. Multiple paypal payments are NOT eligible for discounts.

        We will ship once a week - ON or BEFORE WEDNESDAYS, because of the special stamps needed to ship plants and cuttings to you.  This can only be done at the Dept. of Agriculture.  If payments are not met before that MONDAY, your items will be shipped the following week and lose the combined discount opportunity.

         Non-paying bidders may receive negative feedback and will be reported as an unpaid item to eBay.

COMBINED SHIPPING POLICY

INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING is not included in this offer.  

        We will combine shipping for auctions won on the same week paid with same paypal payment.

   This policy is good for all items bought and paid for in the week ending MONDAY.

Payment must be received within 7 days of the auction ending.

Combined Discounts Won Auctions

     For 2-3 winning auctions, the combined discount is 10% of the total Shipping and Handling charges. For 4-7 winning auctions, the combined discount is 20% of the total Shipping and Handling charges. For 7+ winning auctions, the combined discount is 30% of the total Shipping and Handling charges.

         As each order is packed and prepared separately you will pay the quoted S/H charges individually per item. If you buy the same species in that item it does calculate out the discount (i.e.: additional item $3.61). My stores' combined shipping is built in for same items rather than a varied selection. Includes postage, USDA certification and inspection, proper packing and delivery to Airport for prompt delivery. I can’t really change any of these. If you want one of this and one of that, it gets hard to discount much as each different species requires it's own prep & packing, then at USDA each has to be unwrapped and inspected then repacked. USDA requires me to clean and prepare every last piece before we drive them to the Inspection Station on the other side of the island. It takes my wife and I, a day to pack items and get ready to ship. The whole next day we drive around the island and get inspected (2-3 hours), then drive to the Airport Post Office to drop off. It takes the same work with the same type item if you can understand.

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