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On 7 November 2002, I ran a 50 m long and 8 m wide transect out from one of the several original Archontophoenix cunninghamiana palms in St. Johns Theological College bush. At all points along the transect, the adult palm at the base of the transect was the closest A. cunninghamiana palm. All juvenile palms were recorded in this transect. I estimated a total of 7,542 seedlings in the transect, where seedlings were operationally defined as plants < 20 cm high with ≤ 3 leaves. Seedlings within 4 m of the adult were so numerous that their numbers were estimated at 7,000 from a census of one 1 square metre quadrat, shown in the photographs here, which contained 1069 seedlings. A total of 542 seedlings were counted more than 4 m away from this single adult palm along the transect. A total of 34 established juveniles were also counted, the largest of which was 3.6 m high and three of which were greater than 30 m away from the adult palm. No plants of Rhopalostylis sapida of any age were noted along this transect, although it is present in the bush.