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Post your best darn palm pic.

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:29 am
by DesertZone
Post your best palm pics, can be more than one pic. We all need a little green. Even if you have posted it before, lets have fun. :D

Yuma AZ
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 11:18 am
by lucky1
I'm a sucker for the tropicals unfortunately...

<img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5257/539 ... 2fb9b4.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="foxtail_palm_b2js" />

Barb

Ponytail Palm

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:59 pm
by BILL MA
I have SO MANY palm pictures from this last trip. Here's one I could get to real quick.

This ones for you Barb! If you can believe it I thinks there's bigger ones in my pictures. This one was Nice though.

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Bill

Copernicia Fallaensis

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:19 pm
by BILL MA
Here's another cool one that blows your mind just looking at the fronds.

Picture does Zero justice trust me. These palms are crazy looking, I went back several times to look at it in different light.

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Bill

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:18 pm
by hardyjim
O.K.

unless you have one better than that......

wicked nice Bill-


BTW-how much snow did you get :wink:

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:49 pm
by lucky1
That ponytail palm must be on steroids :shock:
Had no idea they get to be such a nice looking tree.
Probably older than the Ark, huh?

Copernicia...drool!
The fronds have a "movement" to them, almost like they're, well...electric or something.

I can believe that the photo doesn't do it justice, there's something really special about Copernicia palms.

Here's my fav Copernicia hospita photo (even though the guy labelled it as a Bizzie):
I emailed him ages ago and he agreed it was a C.hospita, but obviously hasn't changed it.

http://www.nzpalmandcycad.com/imagedb/m ... _nooch.jpg

Thanks!
Barb

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 3:33 pm
by Cameron_z6a_N.S.
Everyone's shots look fantastic!

99% of my pics were taken with my BB, so the quality isn't going to be great. Here are a few of my favourite pics from my trip to Egypt in June/July:

Arriving at the Aswan Botanical Gardens, on an island in the middle of the Nile. Behind the trunk of the washy on the left, you can just make out a Cocos nucifera. The double-trunking palm on the far right is a Hyphaene thebaica.
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Hyphaene thebaica again. If I had known how much the seeds were going for on RPS, I would have made an effort to find some there! :lol:
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Some nice Phoenix near the Valley of the Kings.
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More great Phoenix at the hotel in Sharm el-Sheikh, looking out over the Red Sea.
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Cameron.

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 4:36 pm
by lucky1
Cameron those shots are outstanding! Wow.

But I question the Hyophorbe lagenicaulis ID.
That pic shows a palm with a fan leaf, whereas bottle palms have pinnate leaves.
Was the tree labelled as such?

Got any more pics of the Botanical Garden?
Barb

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 5:08 pm
by Cameron_z6a_N.S.
Thanks for catching that, Barb! It's a Hyphaene thebaica :lol: I was thinking about the similar spelling of Hyophorbe at the time lol.

Edit: Barb, there are more pics of the garden here: viewtopic.php?t=2811&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 5:42 pm
by DesertZone
I would love to have a few of those. 8) 8) 8)

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 5:45 pm
by DesertZone
Bill,
Good stuff....got any more. :lol:

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:09 pm
by TimMAz6
nice photos.................Bill that Copernicia Fallaensis is wild looking!

Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:27 pm
by TerdalFarm
I can't touch those photos!
My "best" of this week (Tuesday) is a cell phone snap of a palm growing indoors at the Tulsa Zoo. The staff member I asked wasn't sure what it was but said he'd look it up for me.
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:33 pm
by Okanagan desert-palms

goodmorning people

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 2:48 am
by macario
Im posting one before I go to work right now. I have been looking for some cheap property to buy and I think I found it. 20 acres of belizian jungle for sale only 50,000.00. Thats cheap

http://cayecaulkerforsale.com/2009/01/1 ... om-belize/

They have some nice palm pics on the site of huge palms

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 2:51 am
by TerdalFarm
Burrell Boom is a nice village. Close to Belize City for airport and shopping, but remote enough to feel rural.
Have you been there?

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:49 am
by lucky1
Hi Mike!
No roads...you'll have to carry your hammock in, only to find Erik has beaten you to it. :wink:
Beautiful palms.

Barb

hello

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:02 am
by macario
terdalfarm I have not been there but having be thing about make the trip.

Barb I always have my one of my hammocks ready to go

Belize

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:06 am
by TerdalFarm
PM me for trip planning advice. I go there a lot (3x in 2010).

Encephalartos Princeps

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 8:16 am
by BILL MA
Nice Pictures everyone.

Here's one for you Jim, I thought about yours as soon as I saw this monster specimen. We got bombed with snow at least a foot maybe more and It's super heavy :roll: I haven't gone out there yet and I really don't want to.

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Bill

Brahea Armata

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 8:27 am
by BILL MA
This is a really nice one for hot and humid S. Florida, trust me it was a lot bigger then it looks in the picture.

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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:05 am
by TimMAz6
I want to move! Great photos. Keep them coming.

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 11:12 am
by lucky1
Me too, Tim. disgust

Now most of our friends are vacationing...just got these 3 pics from Melaque, Mexico.

<img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5136/539 ... e06a2f.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="100_3464" />

<img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5053/539 ... 5d784f.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="100_3438" />

The next one's for Aaron!

<img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5293/539 ... 814913.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="Our Neighbour 2" />

Barb

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 11:14 am
by lucky1
Found this pic:

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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 12:35 pm
by hardyjim
If Susan likes it...I like it :D

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:57 pm
by DesertZone
lucky1 wrote: The next one's for Aaron!

<img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5293/539 ... 814913.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="Our Neighbour 2" />

Barb
Thanks! :D

Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:49 pm
by lucky1
Seaport Village, San Diego

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Lemmesee if I recall Aaron's ID tips.
I think they're W. filifera.

Barb

Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 1:58 pm
by Okanagan desert-palms
I think they are W. robusta. Nice pic.

John

Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 3:06 pm
by hardyjim
Great pics everyone-


My E.princeps is looking gorgeous Bill-thanks for posting that!

C.humilus with Fortunei in the background


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Don't know it's name..but that leaf was over 20' in diameter!


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Any monkeys(lemurs) post on this forum :wink:


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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 5:10 pm
by lucky1
Robusta, huh? I give up guessing unless they're side x side.

Nice pics everybody...

Yup, mine has to be a tropical...deep tropics at that.
Nice pic from PACSOA.

<img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5136/539 ... f9838d.jpg" width="500" height="369" alt="cyrtostachysrenda.pacsoa" />

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 6:33 pm
by DesertZone
lucky1 wrote:Robusta, huh? I give up guessing unless they're side x side.
Robusta
They are hard to tell when apart. :wink:

Heres a good pic for when they are smaller. :D
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Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 8:49 pm
by lucky1
If that's a Robusta on the left, I'll eat my slippers :lol: :lol: :lol:

Barb

(I'll have 'em with mustard).

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:44 am
by DesertZone
lucky1 wrote:If that's a Robusta on the left, I'll eat my slippers :lol: :lol: :lol:

Barb

(I'll have 'em with mustard).
:lol:

Of cource for the new people, filifera on the left and robusta on the right. :D

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:18 am
by TerdalFarm
Aaron,
thanks. As one of the new people here, I was about to throw out all I thought I knew about those darn Washies. :lol:
--Erik

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:55 am
by lucky1
Whew! :lol: :lol:

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:13 am
by Okanagan desert-palms
You can tell it`s a filifera on the left by the deeper and thinner divided segments on the fronds, fatter trunk, more of the cotton fibres, the olive green colored fronds, and lighter orange trunk color. The American cotton palm. http://www.delange.org/PalmNative/PalmNative.htm


John

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:26 am
by lucky1
Nice link John.
Obviously Aaron hasn't seen that link yet, otherwise there'd be drool all over the picture :lol:

While I still have my slippers on my feet...I think the trick is to have at least one of each, and label the beggars so no refreshers are needed. :study:
Thanks!

Barb

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:33 am
by DesertZone
lucky1 wrote:Nice link John.
Obviously Aaron hasn't seen that link yet, otherwise there'd be drool all over the picture :lol:

Barb
:lol: I was drooling over it they other day, I have the home page on "my-favorites"

Thanks for the link John, I love that site. :D

Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 3:37 am
by sidpook
Excellent Photos everyone...Making me drool!!!!! 8)

Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 4:05 am
by sidpook
Posted a palm tree set on flickr below:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaeltrautner/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaeltra ... 952823690/


Album titled: For My Fellow Palm Enthusiasts
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