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Wilson Botanical Garden


Jeff in St Pete

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Another unknown Pinanga. This one is a clumper and the leaves are nicely mottled.

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Formerly Jeff in Costa Rica
 

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Jeff,

Your mystery palm is a Ceroxylon.. maybe C. alpinum?

Brilliant photo's... keep em coming!

Thanks JD! I guessed Ceroxylon because of the trunk, but I wasn't sure since I don't have any experience growing them. I think I found a new favorite palm!

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Misc photos

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Syagrus sancona on the right

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No ID tag - I guessed Burretiokentia?

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Formerly Jeff in Costa Rica
 

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I think these trees were some kind of Dracaena

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The trunks (Hi Patricia!)

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The tops of the trees - taken from up the hill

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Formerly Jeff in Costa Rica
 

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This tree was labeled as Ficus imbricata. It was a beautiful tree, but messy. Those huge leaves were laying all over the ground. I imagine they would suffocate any plants growing underneath.

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It had a nice new pink leaf

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Formerly Jeff in Costa Rica
 

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Has Bo's garden met its match ?? !!! :drool::lol:

Crazy crazy crazy.

These are the kind of threads us palm sickos live for.

Thank you.

Manny

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This was an interesting plant - the leaves were almost black

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This one was not labeled, my guess would be Normanbya normanbyi?

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Another palm not labeled. It kind of looks like Drymophloeus oliviformis but it was so tall that it was difficult to get a good photo.

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Licuala ramsyi?

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Another Welfia regia

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Entire leaf Bactris. There were lots of unusual small Bactris in this area.

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Another one not labeled. Maybe Geonoma deversa?

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Looking up the trunk of a huge Caryota

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Another beautiful understory plant

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Formerly Jeff in Costa Rica
 

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wow :o

its unfathomably awesome!

the "prince of snarkness."

 

still "warning-free."

 

san diego,california,left coast.

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Bob and Catharine were friends of my parents. They were very kind and extremely knowledgeable about tropical plants. The garden was seemed very different in the 70's when I was there. I am delighted to see the care that is obviously being given to it. I will have to dig out the photo slides.

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That's about all of the photos of Wilson Garden worth posting. Ben (one of our members) knew of a nursery close to Wilson so we followed him there after we checked out of our cabina on Sunday. What a treasure this place is! The owner's name is Don Jorge and he has plants and palms all over the place.

First, on the way to Don Jorge's we passed this church with two Corypha out front.

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Inside one of Jorge's many shadehouses

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He didn't know the name of this one

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Formerly Jeff in Costa Rica
 

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Jorge didn't know the name of this palm either. The coloration of the crownshaft kind of reminds me of photos of Bentinckia condapanna that I have seen. Anyone know what this is?

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Bactris gasipaes

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Bromeliad bloom

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Interesting plant

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One last palm that needs id... I bought a 5 gallon size from Jorge that we think is the same palm as this one. Anyone know what it is?

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My haul: I got an Phytelephas aequatorialis, an Areca vestiaria, two unknown palms, a giant fern, and 3 colorful Calathia species that he found growing in the forest. Total for everything - $28

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Ben's haul - he had a truck and could fit a lot more...

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Formerly Jeff in Costa Rica
 

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The second set of palms in #54 are some type of Pinanga sp. Maybe P. insignis?

The palm in #71 appears to be some type of Dypsis.

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wow :o

its unfathomably awesome!

We should have gone down there when you and Jes were visiting me. It was beyond awesome!

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Formerly Jeff in Costa Rica
 

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The second set of palms in #54 are some type of Pinanga sp. Maybe P. insignis?

The palm in #71 appears to be some type of Dypsis.

Thanks JD, I really appreciate the help!

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Formerly Jeff in Costa Rica
 

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Terribly envious :P , we should have stuck with you guys... B) GORGEOUS photography.

Thanks Patricia. I was thinking of you when we were at Don Jorge's. He had so many plants and palms to choose from... and his prices were the best! We made another stop near Rio Claro and visited another beautiful garden on the way home. I haven't posted those photos yet.

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