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[Al in Kona]

This was our last day of the Post Trip. We left Belo Horizonte, M.G. on an early (one hour) flight to Campinas, Sao Paulo state. Then a short bus ride to Nova Odessa where Harri Lorenzi's PLANTARUM is located. Offical name is: Instituto Plantarum de Estudos da Flora LTDA. It's a beautifully landscaped botanical garden not yet open to the general public. This garden has a fantastic collection of most of the Brazilian palm species (minus a few of the Amazonian species only). Here you will find all the known Syagrus, Butia, and Allagoptera species, many of which are not yet grown or known (some newly discovered) outside of Brazil. Here are some of the palms we saw there, some of the newly discovered or collected species are still quite young and not showing their landscape
potential yet. The many small dwarf species of Syagrus and Butia are unique and would fit well into a small garden setting.

Syagrus lorenzoniorum, 3-Syagrus oleracea, Syagrus botryophora, Syagrus flexuosa, Syagrus ruschiana

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[Al in Kona]

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Butia eriospatha, Butia yatay, Attalea phalerata, Attalea brasilinse, Chelyocarpus chuco, Syagrus coronata, Syagrus cocoides, Syagrus picrophylla

More to follow tomorrow -

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[paulgila]

i really like all the space around the palms,much easier to appreciate each one,not to mention get good pix.
oops,i just mentioned it.

[Al in Kona]

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Syagrus macrocarpa, Syagrus macrocarpa (young plant), Syagrus inajai, Syagrus schizophylla, Syagrus vermicularis, Mauritia flexuosa, Mauritiella armada, Maximiliana maripa, Oenocarpus disticus

Note: Most everyone gave Syagrus macrocarps a high score for beauty! Unfortunately the seed has a low germination rate.

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[Al in Kona]

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Now to show you some of the dwarf types of palms in the garden. Some are shown only to familiarize you with their names as the plants themselves aren't fully grown enough to appreciate.

Acrocomia hassleri (very dwarf),
Allagoptera arenaria (familiar to most), Allagoptera campestris, Allagoptera leucocalyx,
Butia archeri, Butia campicola, Butia exospadix, Butia lallemantii (small), Butia lallemantii (mature)

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[Al in Kona]

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Butia leptospatha (super dwarf), Butia marmorii, Butia pubispatha

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[Al in Kona]

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Allagoptera brevicalyx, Itaya amicorum, Lytocaryum itapebiensis, Lytocaryum hoehnei, 4 other garden views.

Dwarf Syagrus to follow . . .

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[amazondk]

Thanks for the pictures Al. That looks like a great place.

dk

[PalmGuyWC]

Al,

Thanks for the photo tour of the Lorenzi estate. I'm drooling over some of those beautiful and rare specimens.

Dick

[Alberto]

Very interesting rare dwarf palms on a well draining elevation!

[Alberto]

Lorenzi´s beloved Syagrus picrophylla near the pool

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[Alberto]

Very interesting rare dwarf palms on a well draining elevation!

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[Alberto]

Allagoptera caudescens

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[Alberto]

Butia lepidotispatha

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[Alberto]

Butia pubispatha.

[Alberto]

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[Alberto]

Attalea tixeirana.

WRONG PIC. Go figure how to upload ,cancel, delete......

[Alberto]

Syagrus werdermanii

[Alberto]

Attalea teixeirana

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[KONADANTOM]

This was our last day of the Post Trip. We left Belo Horizonte, M.G. on an early (one hour) flight to Campinas, Sao Paulo state. Then a short bus ride to Nova Odessa where Harri Lorenzi's PLANTARUM is located. Offical name is: Instituto Plantarum de Estudos da Flora LTDA. It's a beautifully landscaped botanical garden not yet open to the general public. This garden has a fantastic collection of most of the Brazilian palm species (minus a few of the Amazonian species only). Here you will find all the known Syagrus, Butia, and Allagoptera species, many of which are not yet grown or known (some newly discovered) outside of Brazil. Here are some of the palms we saw there, some of the newly discovered or collected species are still quite young and not showing their landscape
potential yet. The many small dwarf species of Syagrus and Butia are unique and would fit well into a small garden setting.

Syagrus lorenzoniorum, 3-Syagrus oleracea, Syagrus botryophora, Syagrus flexuosa, Syagrus ruschiana

Nice palm photos – thank you Al and Alberto for posting them so those were not there can still enjoy some of what you saw.

Hi Al - see you on Sunday 5-16-2010 at our Hawai'i Island Palm Society's Kona-side garden tours.

[Kathryn]

Nice pictures Al and Alberto! One day we'll have enough vacation time to take pre and post tours.

[Al in Kona]

Growing in Lorenzi's Plantarum are almost all of the dwarf or short-type of Syagrus species, altho some are so newly discovered and planted that they don't yet show their true beauty. However, I will show them here if only to familiarize you with their names. They can all be seen in full color photos with describing features, distribution, uses, propagation, etc., in Lorenzi's new book, BRAZILIAN FLORA - Arecaceae (Palms). It's available in both Portuguese or English.

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dwarf Syagrus species - new mound planting, Syagrus caerulescens, S. campestris,
S. campylospatha, S. cerqueirana, S. deflexa,
S. evansiana, S. flexuosa

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[Al in Kona]

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Syagrus glazioviana, S. gouveiana, S. graminifolia, S. graminifolia (glaucous form),
S. harleyi, S. itacambirana,
S. lilliputiana, S. loefgrenii, S. mendanhensis.

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[Al in Kona]

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Syagrus microphylla, S. pleiocladoides, S. procumbens,
S. vagans, S. werdermannii-1, S. werdermannii-2

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