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Unusually slender Phoenix hybrid


Eric in Orlando

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This Phoenix hybrid is growing at Disney's Animal Kingdom. There are some other single trunked specimens growing nearby but this one is really slender with a full crown of leaves. It resembles a giant Syagrus weddelliana (Lytocaryum).

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Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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Really nice looking !

Reminds of another Phoenix (hybrid?) from the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens ;

Does anyone know what these are?
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Some Phoenix if grown in too much shade can look like this. I was once convinced I was looking at a new species of phoenix in Botswana. It was in a thicket of super giant Ficus sycomorus. Clumping with many extremely skinny trunks. On closer inspection and heavily scratched arms and head later turned out it was just Phoenix reclinata growing on a termite mound. 

Having said that Phoenix roebelenii which this one looks like is both clumping and extremely slender where it grows wild and unsullied in Vietnam. Quite difficult to clean up like a true reclinata but a very beautiful thing with very fine leaflets.

 

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