thanks for everyones advise... I filed a complaint to e-bay or "opened a case" i dont know much about this but i told them my problem... funny cuz the seller wouldnt answer me at all after like 15 ignored messages i sent him a mean message sayin i saw pissed and would like something to be done! i was super nice until this point... and then he says he has responded to every e-mail but i much not have gotten it hahahaha but suddenly i get this one saying how rude i am and how he sent it to e-bay saying i was sending a mean message to him lol. funniest thing i have ever heard. BEWARE of this seller RAVAKA1 someone else just gave him negative response for a yellow palm tree... I have never ordered xpensive palms and gotten rptten spear pulled crap. the other palms i ordered at the same time from a diff person are doing soo well. thanks again for all the help. -Justin in VB

According to nurserymen who grow large numbers of them from seed, they exhibit the color from a very early age, as seedlings. There is always a range of color from soft orange tones to rust, to vivid red and dark burgundy, and each plant will maintain that color. It's unusual to get a green one, but it happens. The bad news is if it is green, it will stay green. But...if the leaf was opened a day or two before you noticed, it may have turned green in that time. They open with color, but every leaf turns green once open, over a couple of days to a couple of weeks. So carefully observe the next spear as it opens, that will tell you the true color. And yes, it may intensify as the plant matures. But if it's green, it will stay green.

That looks like the variety hookeri. I've got a couple of those, small but still a fair bit larger than yours. Mine are in a shady spot where they'll grow up into more light as they get bigger but have filtered sun. The ordinary Chambeyronia macrocarpa can take more sun than these. Otherwise they're quite an easy palm to grow. I'm expecting the new fronds on mine to start 'flaming up' soon.

If you do decideto get one get it from piouspalms on ebay. The one i got from coconut climber died. the one I got from pioouspalms are about 3 gallon plants and arrived in great shape an is doing fine. It was $12.00 I Think. I also got an areca vestiraria from pious over the summer and it too was oversized and and both were packed very well. I think the cold while shipping is what did my coconut climbers in. It took a week to get to me. check out piouspalms he hasen't done me wrong yet an ships real fast.