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Xerarch

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Don’t want to forget this one 

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Corpus Christi, TX, near salt water, zone 9b/10a! Except when it isn't and everything gets nuked.

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3 hours ago, Xerarch said:

Maisiana? Not familiar with this one. 

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This species was formerly listed as Roystonea regia var. maisiana until Scott Zona distinguished it. I've got seedlings of this species growing with hopes to ultimately donate a couple of trees to Kopsick.

Here's some info on it:

“R. maisiana, endemic to Maisi, where it is abundant, is much more slender and less ventricose than R. regia. I measured a population of R. maisiana and found that the trunk diameter at breast height averaged 36.5 cm, compared with an average of 46.9 cm in R. regia. This species would be an elegant palm for cultivation.” Scott Zona in “Notes on Roystonea in Cuba”.

“The endemic species of Cuba (R. lenis, R. stellata, R. maisiana and R. violacea) are not sister species - i.e., they are not more closely related to one another than to other species in the genus. Their evolutionary history is perhaps the most vexing phylogenetic problem in the genus. repeated vicariance events between eastern Cuba and other land masses in the Caribbean and Central America would not have been possible, nor can one readily envisage sympatric speciation in the Maisi. For want of alternative hypotheses, I currently favor a refugium hypothesis to explain the presence of four endemic taxa (and one widespread taxon) in eastern Cuba.”

“Distribution: Endemic to the Maisi region of the province of Guantanamo, eastern Cuba, at 350-420 m altitude”

Local name and uses: Palma negra. The palm is used, as other species are in eastern Cuba, for timber, thatch and hog feed.” Scott Zona in the Roystonea monograph.

 

Here's a nice pic i snapped of the group last year. All 4 royals in the group are R. maisiana. IMG_8114.thumb.jpg.cd6f4a6c1501adad12bcf

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Keith 

Palmetto, Florida (10a) and Tampa, Florida (9b/10a)

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Oooooh! I skipped my 2017 visit so I thank you for the mini tour! I need more please! Any pics of the conservatory and its water features, or plants on the mulch path? Did you spot any sun basking iguanas (they would most likely be around the Pandanus)? :yay:

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Naples (inland), FL - technically 10a but more like 9b in the winter :hmm:

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7 hours ago, Missi said:

Oooooh! I skipped my 2017 visit so I thank you for the mini tour! I need more please! Any pics of the conservatory and its water features, or plants on the mulch path? Did you spot any sun basking iguanas (they would most likely be around the Pandanus)? :yay:

If the conservatory is the big greenhouse on the south end, unfortunately it was closed and we were not able to enter. I’m not sure what the mulch path is but in spite of all the photos I took I was trying to use some restraint because constantly taking pictures sort of detracts from the experience for me.  I wish I had seen some iguanas I would have loved to, especially since the day we were there was the very day that iguanas were reported to be falling from trees in S. Florida due to cold. I even complained to my wife that I hadn’t seen any iguanas falling while we were there. 

As for more pictures, I do have some...

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Ficus aurea doing what Ficus aurea does best? No label on this one but it seems to be strangling another tree and it’s in South Florida so I make an assumption. 

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I really like red mangrove

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So coveted where it can’t grow and just another weed where it can. 5458EFF6-80EE-4A69-B2F7-4A26435B718B.thu

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Was the rare plant house closed? It's right next to the butterfly house. It has a cyrtostachys renda with watermelon striping., a nice pelagadoxa, and a gorgeous salacca magnifica (amongst many other incredible things). Hopefully you saw that stuff. If not, you need to make another trip.:D

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Tracy

Stuart, Florida

Zone 10a

So many palms, so little room

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20 minutes ago, Tracy S said:

Was the rare plant house closed? It's right next to the butterfly house. It has a cyrtostachys renda with watermelon striping., a nice pelagadoxa, and a gorgeous salacca magnifica (amongst many other incredible things). Hopefully you saw that stuff. If not, you need to make another trip.:D

I didn’t see that stuff so it must have been closed. Loath am I that I won’t be able to return to Fairchild for some time.  I could spend soooo much more time there just to feel like I really soaked the whole place in and then I would return frequently to revisit if circumstances allowed. Oh and I would really like to be there during the mango festival, I’m a big fan of quality mangoes that are so hard to find in most of this country. 

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14 hours ago, Xerarch said:

If the conservatory is the big greenhouse on the south end, unfortunately it was closed and we were not able to enter. I’m not sure what the mulch path is but in spite of all the photos I took I was trying to use some restraint because constantly taking pictures sort of detracts from the experience for me.  I wish I had seen some iguanas I would have loved to, especially since the day we were there was the very day that iguanas were reported to be falling from trees in S. Florida due to cold. I even complained to my wife that I hadn’t seen any iguanas falling while we were there. 

As for more pictures, I do have some...

WHAT?! It's like the best part ever! I wonder why it was closed?!! Here's a link to it: http://www.fairchildgarden.org/tropical-plant-conservatory

I agree about the pressure of taking tons of photos detracting from the experience as a whole.

Naples (inland), FL - technically 10a but more like 9b in the winter :hmm:

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14 hours ago, Tracy S said:

Was the rare plant house closed? It's right next to the butterfly house. It has a cyrtostachys renda with watermelon striping., a nice pelagadoxa, and a gorgeous salacca magnifica (amongst many other incredible things). Hopefully you saw that stuff. If not, you need to make another trip.:D

And big Seychelles stilt palms, and a coco de mer, and and and.......................:yay:

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Just for fun, I'll share several of my favorite shots in the Conservatory/Rare Plant House from my 2016 Fairchild visit since you missed it on your own visit. There's lots lots LOTS more to be seen in there, but these are just some things that popped out at me on that visit. It's very tight in there and I had only my 50mm prime lens with me, so I couldn't get whole-plant shots on many of the larger specimens, but there's a shot of part of a coco de mer's leaf in there and the stem of the variegated/'watermelon' sealing wax :lol:

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On 1/7/2018, 11:47:40, Xerarch said:

Baobab, a real one, not like fake ones at Disney Animal Kingdom 

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Thanks for taking the time to post all of these pictures (of both palms and ID tag). I particularly liked the boab tree. Do you know how old it is? 

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Call me a homer, but I would visit MBC over Fairchild, any day of the week. For real deal palm lovers, it's the place.

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6 hours ago, Missi said:

WHAT?! It's like the best part ever! I wonder why it was closed?!! Here's a link to it: http://www.fairchildgarden.org/tropical-plant-conservatory

I agree about the pressure of taking tons of photos detracting from the experience as a whole.

Interesting - it was closed when I visited last year also!  Thanks for posting the pics so I know what I missed and where I'll need to go next time!  Thanks for your pics Xerarch also!

Jon

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Im gonna be staying at the Kampong for the weekend first week of Feb, cant wait to check all this out

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Looking for:  crytostachys hybrids, Pseudophoenix sargentii Leucothrinax morrisii, livingstona canarensis

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1 hour ago, Mandrew968 said:

Call me a homer, but I would visit MBC over Fairchild, any day of the week. For real deal palm lovers, it's the place.

I've yet to visit, but I've heard it's amazing there as well. Do they have a conservatory? I feel that's really the gem of Fairchild. I'll have to see why it's been closed for a year. :unsure:

Naples (inland), FL - technically 10a but more like 9b in the winter :hmm:

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2 hours ago, Chatta said:

Im gonna be staying at the Kampong for the weekend first week of Feb, cant wait to check all this out

Kampong is nice. You have to work a little harder. Very few labels and it's easy to miss cool plants, especially if they are not in bloom. 

No conservatory. But the baobab is amazing. I think they had to stand it back up again after Irma. Also, the have a great collection of unusual flowering trees.walk towards the water and you will see a variety of fruit trees also.

I love the feel of the kampong.

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Tracy

Stuart, Florida

Zone 10a

So many palms, so little room

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9 hours ago, Missi said:

WHAT?! It's like the best part ever! I wonder why it was closed?!! Here's a link to it: http://www.fairchildgarden.org/tropical-plant-conservatory

I agree about the pressure of taking tons of photos detracting from the experience as a whole.

For us they said they were working on the HVAC, that’s why it was was closed. 

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8 hours ago, Missi said:

Just for fun, I'll share several of my favorite shots in the Conservatory/Rare Plant House from my 2016 Fairchild visit since you missed it on your own visit. There's lots lots LOTS more to be seen in there, but these are just some things that popped out at me on that visit. It's very tight in there and I had only my 50mm prime lens with me, so I couldn't get whole-plant shots on many of the larger specimens, but there's a shot of part of a coco de mer's leaf in there and the stem of the variegated/'watermelon' sealing wax :lol:

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Echoing Missi’s reaction....  :drool:

All these excellent photos and advice on what to see is inspiring...Time to make another long overdue and now more fully informed visit to Fairchild (and add MBC and the Kampong!) Thank you all very much for sharing! 

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7 hours ago, 5150cycad said:

Thanks for taking the time to post all of these pictures (of both palms and ID tag). I particularly liked the boab tree. Do you know how old it is? 

As luck would have it, I bought a visitor guide on the way out and it has a small section on this baobab,  Adansonia digitata. It says it is “young” about 70 years old and the book was published in 2008 so by my reckoning that must make it about 80 years old!

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55 minutes ago, Tracy S said:

Kampong is nice. You have to work a little harder. Very few labels and it's easy to miss cool plants, especially if they are not in bloom. 

No conservatory. But the baobab is amazing. I think they had to stand it back up again after Irma. Also, the have a great collection of unusual flowering trees.walk towards the water and you will see a variety of fruit trees also.

I love the feel of the kampong.

I know of a Psychotria Viridis I'm hoping to see. I have a clone of it in my garden my friends and I called "Kampong" for obvious reasons lol. Hoping to a lot of neat things there! I hope to also get to see a lot of fairchild while I'm there.

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Looking for:  crytostachys hybrids, Pseudophoenix sargentii Leucothrinax morrisii, livingstona canarensis

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