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OK, after four days of freezing temps, I decided I needed a tropical infusion. Time to continue the trip. Yogya: We arrived in Yogya about two weeks after the 6.2 magnitude earthquake just offshore. This was a devistating earthquake with almost 6000 people killed, 36,000+ injured and >1 million left homeless. Yogya has a special place in my wife's heart and mine as it is a wonderful city and it is where we met while attending the major University there. We had planned on staying for a week, but only stayed three days. Needless to say we didn't take many landscape pictures here as our primary concern was to check on the welfare of our friends there. So, let'…
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My final palm expedition of 2006. Here are some interesting or unusual (for our area) palms growing around town and county. I already posted the various Brahea armata in another thread. A row of Washingtonia filifera lining the old driveway to the winery where I work. Normally, I would not consider Washingtonia particularly interesting, but this winery dates back to the 1870's. I am not sure however, how old these are. The driveway is ~1/4 mile long. A typical hazy winter day in the valley. This guy has brought in a bunch of specimen trees.... Yet lives in a mobile home. One of those trees probably cost more than the trailer. There is also a…
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Nice D. Baronii in Shark Reef
by BigFrond- 19 replies
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at Mandala Bay in Lost Wages.
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Langkawi
by Tyrone- 34 replies
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Waterfall in Langkawi
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Palms in Manaus, AM Brazil
by amazondk- 28 replies
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Here are a few shots of some palms in Manaus and immediate vicinity. I went out and took a few today. I will get some more to add tomorrow, and later. The main terminal at Eduardo Gomes International Airport, the ponds are full of turtles and local fish like the tambaqui. Estrada da Cidade Nova, a main street close to my house. There was a time when the city was into planting Oil Palms, they have switched now to Royals - will be shown in a later image.
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So Cal palm tour last Sat.
by BS Man about Palms- 22 replies
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Here are just a few pics of Drews place from last Sat. 8 or 9 doors from the Playboy mansion, I've looked over these pics several times and I can't spot any coconuts!
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Amazon Post Biennial Photos
by edbrown_3- 13 replies
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Heres a few photos from up the Rio Negro Geonoma aspidifolia
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Making Sago in Indonesia
by Okie- 28 replies
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The Location
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The Eden Project
by Neofolis- 36 replies
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OK, it's hardly an exotic location, but I thought it would be worth posting a few pics of my October visit. This is an outside view of the larger greenhouse (biome), which is themed as "humid tropics" This is the slightly smaller biome, which is host to "warm temperate" species. A waterfall inside the humid tropics biome, which is a major source of humidity for the biome.
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Amazon Post Biennial Photos
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Leopodinia pulcha
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Collecting Mauritia flexuosa seeds
by RainForestt Robert- 13 replies
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I am planning another trip to one of our nature reserves where there are quite a few stands of M. flexuosa. This triggered my mind regarding an article I wrote some time ago. Here is a link for those who have not read it before. I hope to have some updated photos in a couple of weeks. Collecting M. flexuosa seeds Robert
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Cocos at Sea World Orlando
by SoLando- 9 replies
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When I arrived at SeaWorld today, I was pleasently surprised with some fat@$$ foxtails when you pay for parking. I couldn't get a good picture (all blurry) since I had to keep moving. But, they were some FAT dudes. Looked great. SeaWorld's coconuts look amazing. There were some really tall ones. And, it seemed like there was a cocos on every corner! I was in heaven. I'm sorry for the terrible quality, I took these pictures from my cellphone. It only let me take a picture of a few (it was not being cooperative!) and for the others it said "photo failed" or something like that. I was TICKED. I tried to get a pic of a REALLY tall coconut, but my phone did not work with m…
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Royal Palm Ranch
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I drive by this ranch all the time as I go over to work on our business in Itacoatiara, 260 kms from Manaus. This time I decided to stop and take a picture. I think it has a great setting surrounded by forest, babaçu palms (Attaleas) with some nice royal palms in the yard. The road is on a high crest at this point and looks down at the place. You can also notice our winter weather pattern sky. It seems the rainy season has started. We get a few days like this and then 3 or 4 sunny ones. It is nice to see the temperature go down a bit. dk
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Wild Animal Park, San Diego, Ca
by deezpalms- 27 replies
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Bismarckia Brahea's
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Some more road side shots
by amazondk- 15 replies
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Since I have received a lot of positive input on some of my roadside shots I have a few more. And, I would like to thank Gileno for his documentation of his trip. I find it a good way to make the trip more interesting looking for palm and related shots. This trip we took up to Boa Vista, Roraima leaving early Monday morning and returning on Saturday this week. The trip to Boa Vista is on BR 174 and is about 800 kms. If the road were in good shape it would be an easy trip. Unortunately like many Brazilian highways the highway is a mess. The holes sometimes look like they will swallow your car. This highway was only paved 6 years ago and is already in a sad state of …
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A few more Aussie photos
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Archontophoenix and Calamus in the rainforest
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I uploaded a lot of pics with comments at Webshots. If you didn´t read the topic´´Trip to Central Paraná´´ it´s important to understand this one properly: (Use the button slideshow.....Then you will not be able to see the fullsize version of some photos!) http://community.webshots.com/user/albarkema
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San Diego Zoo pics...
by deezpalms- 32 replies
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Great palm society outing part two
by Walter John- 18 replies
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This day is in fact in 3 stages, three garden visits. the first being Palm fascinations in nambour, see that thread, the second visit was at a members dry garden in caboolture featuring fantastic succulents, agaves, cycads etc. The third visit was to a members residence in a suburban garden in Brisbane itself. An amazing garden for an inner city suburb. Here's some of the photos I took. Sorry, I'm having problems with Photobucket, I'll get back soon.
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Great palm society outing
by Walter John- 33 replies
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A great day out today at Palm Fascinations in Nambour, South East Queensland for members of Brisbane and Sunshine Coast palm and cycad societies. Here is the big dam at the nursery The Brisbane society boys in front of a massive Beccariophoenix The walk continues past large green bizzie, silver bizzie, royals etc. Don't silver bismarkias standout folks, view across the dam/lake
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Coconuts in Rio Formoso
by Gileno Machado- 32 replies
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We had some friends from England visiting our home in Sirinhaém last saturday and we decided to rent a small motorboat to show them around the river mangroves and coconuts near the mouth. This friend is a retired journalist of BBC and his wife is a children books writer and publisher in UK. They are now seriously planning to buy a summer house in my neighborhood to spend a few months each year among our coconuts...let's see...
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Photo Test
by Okie- 2 replies
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Just want to see how this is going to work.
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Country road palms
by Gileno Machado- 36 replies
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I had a short business trip yesterday to Escada and Primavera, two small towns ~80 Km southwest of Recife. On my way back I decided to go to the beach in Sirinhaém to check my palms. I took a few pictures of wild grown and cultivated palms, mostly amidst the oceanic sugarcane plantations and small Atlantic forest preserves near the local roads, driving through typical "Zona da Mata" environment:
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Trip to local botanical garden
by leomx- 21 replies
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Some palms in northwest Mèxico (max. 45ºC, min. 7ºC, 40% RH). Right click on pix if don`t know its name. Saludos.
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Photo posting help
by Okie- 1 reply
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I have recently returned from Indonesia and have some photos I would like to share, however I don't understand how to post them. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you Okie
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