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Planten un Blomen 1972/73

Pal Meir

By Pal Meir
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Once upon a time I saw my small collection of palms and thought it would be nice if I could see how the palms would look like when they get big and so I decided to visit the botanical garden »Planten un Blomen« in my city.

Part of my small collection in 1972:

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Whoa! Spectacular!

How did they get the Lodoicea to grow in that little bucket?

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Yeah, that is what botanic gardens here in Holland looked like in those days too! In my days as a student of law, my wife and I visited a lot of those gardens in Holland, like Haren/Groningen, Nijmegen (my university-town), Wageningen (agri-university), Amsterdam (VU and GU), Utrecht/Baarn and -of course- Leiden. And, when the staff working there, got to know you better, you might return home with plants you never came across in gardencentre's at the time. That's how my collection took off.

 

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At that time it was hard to get any “exotic” palm seeds. So my older palms were only such species as Phoenix dactylifera (13 years old) or Chamaerops humilis (10 years old), otherwise babies like the seedlings below of Butia odorata (»Cocos australis«), Chamaerops humilis, Trachycarpus fortunei, and Washingtonia (»robusta«, but later looking more like filifera). Another choice was a coconut from supermarket.

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But where did they get that Double Coconut? :hmm:

That's a gigantic rare prize even today! :yay::yay:

And is it growing in that little pot as it appears to be? :hmm:

 

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6 minutes ago, DoomsDave said:

But where did they get that Double Coconut? :hmm:

That's a gigantic rare prize even today! :yay::yay:

And is it growing in that little pot as it appears to be? :hmm:

The Lodoicea seedling was really growing in that small pot :greenthumb:, but how long, I don’t know.:indifferent: The fate of the seedling became obscure (at least to me) since the International Garden Fair IGA 1973 hold in Hamburg that time … :bemused:

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18 hours ago, DoomsDave said:

Whoa! Spectacular!

How did they get the Lodoicea to grow in that little bucket?

Whoa, Spectacular! Yes, yes, how do they get that? Is that real?

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Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

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25 minutes ago, doranakandawatta said:

Whoa, Spectacular! Yes, yes, how do they get that? Is that real?

Yes, it was actually growing. – I have found another photo of a potted Lodoicea maldivica, not taken in Hamburg, but at Botanical Gardens Kew in London:

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OMG,

All these potted Lodoicea, they would be so happy to come with me to Sri Lanka. :)

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Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

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OH MY GOD!

BECKY LOOK AT :o:yay:

(never mind . . . .)

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4 hours ago, Pal Meir said:

At that time it was hard to get any “exotic” palm seeds. So my older palms were only such species as Phoenix dactylifera (13 years old) or Chamaerops humilis (10 years old), otherwise babies like the seedlings below of Butia odorata (»Cocos australis«), Chamaerops humilis, Trachycarpus fortunei, and Washingtonia (»robusta«, but later looking more like filifera). Another choice was a coconut from supermarket.

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Those two palms on the photos above didn’t live so long: The date palm died being only 20 years old in 1979 when I was overseas and the mediterranean fan palm died with 30 years when I was at another university; below the last photos of those two: :violin:

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Have any survived to present day?

Cheers, Barrie.

 

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14 minutes ago, Las Palmas Norte said:

Have any survived to present day?

Cheers, Barrie.

The only palms which survived from the early 1970s to today are two Chamaedorea elegans, below a photo taken in 2015. Most of the other seedlings on the photos died during a world trip from 1977 to 1980.

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