Areca catechu

[Cindy Adair]

Thanks to those of you who talked about their cameras,I bought a new one when my very old one died recently. I enjoyed taking over 1000 photos in a recent week on our farm. Many were to start a pictoral inventory of our tiny palms with voice memos noting their location, date planted, etc. I've finally got them labelled and resized for use here and will post them when I can. Anyway, this is one of several Areca catechu (betel) palms that enjoys the mountains of Puerto Rico with no care at all from us. Not a rare palm and planted by the previous owner, but I never thought I'd own one out of a pot.

[bgl]

Cindy,

That's a nice looking catechu! And one thing I have found out: there's no such thing as taking "too many photos". Every now and then, when all I intend to do is to take a photo, or two, of a particular palm that I have planted, I also end up snapping a whole bunch of photos of surrounding areas. Even if there are NO palms planted. Years down the road, when these areas have been cleaned up and planted and the palms have grown up, it's lots of fun to be able to have photos of "then" and "now".

Bo-Göran

[Trópico]

If you drive down in the metro area you can see them scattered in the urban landscape, the erect fronds look really nice. Yours is really good looking; save me some seeds.

[realarch]

Looking good Cindy. I agree with Bo, snapping just one photo is almost impossible for me. I had to buy a new computer for extra memory and speed.

It is great going back and looking at the photo record and seeing how things have progressed.

[Cindy Adair]

Looking good Cindy. I agree with Bo, snapping just one photo is almost impossible for me. I had to buy a new computer for extra memory and speed.

It is great going back and looking at the photo record and seeing how things have progressed.

Palmtalk and my own pictures keep me going between visits, especially when it's freezing in Virginia! I get only one more week in Puerto Rico this year (in 2 months) since I get to go to Thailand. My husband will make a quick trip in October and will take photos for me then to keep me happy until March/April of 2013. But after I retire in three years, I'll have 24/7 to enjoy it all. Then expect lots of pictures! Oh, the orange flagging tape marks plants we've added, including orchids tied to tree ferns in this photo of part of our jungle.