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Unusual Palm Trees at Fairchild!

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Hello everyone! I am one of Miami's newest residents. Here are some photos I took on Wednesday at Fairchild. This month they have free Wednesday admission, so I will be there tomorrow morning for sure! I decided to take pictures of the more uncommon palms, since they deserve equal attention. I can't believe I finally live in a place where coconuts can grow.

Attalea crassispatha trunk

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Arenga... brevipes?

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Coccothrinax miraguama var. roseocarpa

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Calamus coccinus

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Arenga westerhoutii

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Chamaedorea pinnatifrons... with a plectocomia elongata trunk creeping in the foreground

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Ptychosperma bleeseri

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Ptychosperma waitanum

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Drymophloeus litigiosus

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Ptychosperma microcarpum

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Oncosperma tigillarium

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Archontophoenix tuckeri

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Areca vidaliana

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Clinostigma harlandii

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Coccothrinax crinita var. brevicrinis

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Calamus longipinna

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Ptychosperma lauterbachii with a Neoveitchia on the right

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Calyptrogyne gheisbreghtiana

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Arenga undulatifolia

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Artocarpus heterophyllus.... Jackfruit... I thought it was funny how all but one of the fruits were touching the ground.

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Pritchardia thurstonii

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Arenga microcarpa... These are very large palms!

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Arenga tremula

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Coccothrinax jamaicensis

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Schippia concolor

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Very tall triangle! Dypsis decaryi

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Cyphophoenix nucele

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Copernicia curtissii

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Blue Latan.... Latania verschaffeltii... Native to the Indian Ocean's island of Rodrigues

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Red Latan.... Latania lontaroides.... Native to the Indian Ocean's Island of Reunion

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Yellow Latan.... Latania loddigesii.... Native to the Indian Ocean's vacation island of Mauritius

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Ptychosperma burretianum.... They have very long drooping fronds.

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Ponapea ledermaniana

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And last, but not least, one of my favorite palms... Licuala peltata var. sumawongii

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Click here for My Personal Palm Encyclopedia (Just photos)

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Wow!

Another "must visit" location. If I start to travel this same moment I bet I can get to all this palmy places from my list untill 2086.

Thank for sharing man. Its nice to see UR enjoing your dream.

:greenthumb:

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Way to go Kyle! You're on a rampage! :drool: That blue Caryota flower is cool.

Matt Bradford

"Manambe Lavaka"

Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

10B on the hill (635 ft. elevation)

9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

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Thanks for the photos! I'm waiting for the heat to break a little before I make my semi-yearly trek to Fairchild. That P eckmanii has actually grown a bit since last year.

-Randy

"If you need me, I'll be outside" -Randy Wiesner Palm Beach County, Florida Zone 10Bish

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It has been several years since I have walked around in there, I need to get back.

Good to see the Oncosperma has grown well and survived the last 2 cold winters !

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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Great photos Kyle! One day I will get to see FTG in person...one day....

Daryl

Gold Coast, Queensland Latitude 28S. Mild, Humid Subtropical climate. Rainfall - not consistent enough!

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What a great Post. Everytime I am at Fairchild, I am so constantly bedazzled that I do not have time or wits to look for those truly rare and out of the ordinary specimens.I see them in Rifle and Craft and swear I will search them out but it is always a pipe dream. A good pipe dream but a dream out of the pipe, nonetheless.

What you look for is what is looking

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Kyle, you gotta take a pic of the C. fallense with someone standing underneath for scale. People don't realize they're twice the size of a silver Bizzie!!

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KYLE!

GO WILD!

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Great pics! Thanks for sharing.

"it's not dead it's sleeping"

Santee ca, zone10a/9b

18 miles from the ocean

avg. winter 68/40.avg summer 88/64.records 113/25

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Thanks for the compliments! As I said, I went back to Fairchild. Here are a few more photos. I read the website incorrectly, and it's only free the first Wednesday of the next couple months, but fortunately the lady let me and a friend in for free.

Flagella on Plectocomia elongata

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Calyptrogyne occidentalis

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Astrocaryum alatum

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My first Floridian Coconut! My friend was able to break it open. It wasn't sweet, but it was edible! It was a Golden Malay Dwarf Variety... Sorry Fairchild for taking a Coconut.

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Attalea funifera.... This is definitely a funky looking palm. At least at this stage, it doesn't look quite like the other Attaleas! It's about 10 feet tall.

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A Ptychosperma caryotoides blended into a Caryota mitis

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I took this picture yesterday of a Chuniophoenix hainanensis fruit, but I had photographed it back in March when it was just a flower!

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Back in March

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My friend managed to catch a basilisk lizard, which has naturalized down here!

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And here is me in front of a Xanthosoma sagittifolium

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Kyle, you gotta take a pic of the C. fallense with someone standing underneath for scale. People don't realize they're twice the size of a silver Bizzie!!

This is a good idea. However, I was just at Fairchild yesterday admiring their C. fallaensis and I can say without hesitation that I have seen larger bismarckias here in south Florida. I posted a couple photos that I took yesterday on another thread in case you might be interested (no overall shot, though):

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=30086&st=120

Jody

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Great photos. I was at Fairchild two weeks before hurricane Andrew hit and exactly one year later. The change was shocking. It looks terrific from your photos. Did you get any pics of the Copernecia baileyana down in the lower area around one of the lakes? They were so impressive to me as were the mammoth spider webs that went from tree to tree: a bug's nightmare, for sure.

Joseph C. Le Vert

Augusta, GA

USA

Zone 8

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The Attalea crassispatha is one of my favorites at Fairchild. they have a stunning grove of them.

Jupiter FL

in the Zone formally known as 10A

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Blue Latan.... Latania verschaffeltii... Native to the Indian Ocean's island of Rodrigues

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Red Latan.... Latania lontaroides.... Native to the Indian Ocean's Island of Reunion

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Yellow Latan.... Latania loddigesii.... Native to the Indian Ocean's vacation island of Mauritius

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Not quite right Kyle, the Latania verschaffeltii is the yellow and Latania loddigesii is the blue.

Great pics, thanks for showing, and good for you living in a Coconut zone, I bet you're loving it.

Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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