Travelogue

CTPalm · Post by **CTPalm** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:35 pm

Welcome home! Love those Christmas palms!! Paul

Okanagan desert-palms · Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:40 pm

Erik You just made me want to visit Belize. Great pics and videos. Do you know the name of the tall palm behind the menhir in your latest photo? I collected seeds from one of them while in Mexico last month. I think it is from the oil palm species?

John

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:03 pm

Atellea cohune, "cohune palm." A favorite: a canopy species; source of oil; incredibly hard wood (Maya used trunks as rollers for their large stones). Looks good. Takes years to form trunk, but have amazingly long fronds as juveniles. Zone 9b

Okanagan desert-palms · Tue Jan 10, 2012 9:06 pm

Thanks Erik for the ID. on the Cohune palm. I`ll be potting some up if I can get the seeds to pop.

John

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 9:10 pm

I brought home cohune seeds a couple of years ago but failed to get any to germinate. I'll try again some time as they are so neat. With their huge fronds, they would be a fun pot palm for years.
As for Christmas palms, the seeds germinate readily but I have had trouble keeping seedlings alive. My last from a year ago seems to have died from neglect while I was gone. So, heads up: take better care of the Adonidia seedlings than you do other palm seedlings.

Okanagan desert-palms · Tue Jan 10, 2012 9:35 pm

Erik thanks for the heads up on the Christmas palm seedlings. I`ll keep a closer eye on them.

John

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 1:06 pm

Thanks for the ID, Erik,

Looked up Attalea cohune in my Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms.
An excerpt...

"They inhabit both wet and semiarid climates and vary from above--and subterranean-trunked--species to colossally tall and mammoth trunked forms....zones 10 or 11

They need as much sun as they can get for faster growth and better appearance. The growing point of the large, trunk-forming species remains below ground for several years...it is not unusual to see gigantic specimens with 20- to 30-foot-tall leaves springing straight from the soil. 'Cohune' has the marvelous midpoint twist to the vertical of its great leaves, and is now the most available and widely planted Attalea species in the US."

Barb

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:59 pm

lucky1 wrote:Thanks for the ID, Erik,

Looked up Attalea cohune in my Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms.
An excerpt...

"They inhabit both wet and semiarid climates and vary from above--and subterranean-trunked--species to colossally tall and mammoth trunked forms....zones 10 or 11 They need as much sun as they can get for faster growth and better appearance. The growing point of the large, trunk-forming species remains below ground for several years...it is not unusual to see gigantic specimens with 20- to 30-foot-tall leaves springing straight from the soil. 'Cohune' has the marvelous midpoint twist to the vertical of its great leaves, and is now the most available and widely planted Attalea species in the US."

Barb

WOw, you'se all know some crazy Stuff about palms! I feel so....well...juvenile. It would be amazing if we could all talk in person some day about our palms!!

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:25 pm

I'd love a palms north meeting!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:25 pm

I feel so....well...juvenile.

Nope, Mike, we just have the books to look up stuff that we haven't got a clue about

My books' pages are dog-eared from all the look ups.

amazing if we could all talk in person some day about our palms

That would be cool!!!!

Whad'ya say before we all get old we meet mid-continent?
I'd have to leave now...

Seriously, Mike, that would be wonderful.

Barb

Okanagan desert-palms · Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:51 pm

Thanks Barb for looking up the Cohune palm . Time will tell if the seeds we have will pop.

John

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:45 am

lucky1 wrote:
I feel so....well...juvenile.

Nope, Mike, we just have the books to look up stuff that we haven't got a clue about
My books' pages are dog-eared from all the look ups.

amazing if we could all talk in person some day about our palms
That would be cool!!!!

Whad'ya say before we all get old we meet mid-continent?
I'd have to leave now...

Seriously, Mike, that would be wonderful.

Barb

Funny , I'm a teacher, but not a reader. I learned my gardening (like cooking) from my family and never follow "recipes" I am an avid internet surfer for info though on things I need to know. I never bake: hate measuring and following directions! I'm the guy that always has extra parts when the IKEA furniture gets put together.

Yes, a reunion would be cool! I'd be game!

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:25 am

sidpook wrote: I learned my gardening (like cooking) from my family and never follow "recipes" I am an avid internet surfer for info though on things I need to know. I never bake: hate measuring and following directions! I'm the guy that always has extra parts when the IKEA furniture gets put together.

Mike, you have drawn my portrait! Thanks!

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:48 am

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:
sidpook wrote: I learned my gardening (like cooking) from my family and never follow "recipes" I am an avid internet surfer for info though on things I need to know. I never bake: hate measuring and following directions! I'm the guy that always has extra parts when the IKEA furniture gets put together.
Mike, you have drawn my portrait! Thanks!

LOL

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 12:18 pm

We spent the first day of the New Year surrounded by palms. I made a blog entry to embed photos and videos. Only a little text, so you can scroll through fast. There are a few palm pics but most deals with the ancient Maya.
Don, yes, we looked for the Crystal Skull.
http://terdalfarm.blogspot.com/2012/01/ ... egins.html

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 1:05 pm

Erik and Rhea, lovely photos you've captured.

Magnificent museum contents !

It would've been fabulous to get a "rubbing" on a huge roll of paper of one of those museum stelae!
A friend of ours did that, brought it home, framed it on a sheet of plywood.
What a treasure.

Thanks for great travelogue, you two.
Barb

PS--I'll have to move out if my seeds of Attalea cohune from John's trip pop.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 7:33 am

TerdalFarm wrote:We spent the first day of the New Year surrounded by palms. I made a blog entry to embed photos and videos. Only a little text, so you can scroll through fast. There are a few palm pics but most deals with the ancient Maya.
Don, yes, we looked for the Crystal Skull.
http://terdalfarm.blogspot.com/2012/01/ ... egins.html

Awesome blog

all the cool vids and pics makes a person almost feel like they are there. Thanks for the trip!

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:02 pm

I made another blog entry. This one features a particular resort we were invited to.
http://terdalfarm.blogspot.com/2012/01/ ... y-inn.html

Of interest here, there is a mystery part way through: an unknown (to me) palm of great beauty.
I made a guess for the blog (Maya palm, aka Rain palm) but have been told by FB msg. that I am wrong. But still don't know what it is. Any suggestions welcome....

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:53 pm

Great blog entry again, Erik and Rhea.

No palm ID guess from me...remember the trouble I had distinguishing W. filifera from W.robusta?

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 11:27 am

I found an online key to palms of Belize:
http://www.plantapalm.com/vpe/palmkey/b ... izekey.htm
and using that, I'm thinking
Euterpe precatoria Mart. var. longevaginata (Mart.) Henderson

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 5:04 pm

TerdalFarm wrote:I found an online key to palms of Belize:
http://www.plantapalm.com/vpe/palmkey/b ... izekey.htm
and using that, I'm thinking
Euterpe precatoria Mart. var. longevaginata (Mart.) Henderson

That is a lot of palms.

That is awesome you guys get to go to all those cool places. And I get to be stuck in the snow.

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