Nong Nooch Tropical Garden...

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This is my first trip to Nong Nooch Tropical Garden where I bet many people here visited this garden more often than myself. This garden is about 150 km from Bangkok in the east (Near Pattaya) and it took me about 1.5 hr driving there.

I could only spend half a day there due to the heat. It's middle of summer now in Thailand and the temperature easily rises to 40'c during mid day which causes me exhausted faster but I still had a chance to take many photos there, mostly palms and cycads. So here you are!

The first pic is the famouse blue entrance to the garden.

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This is the first palm i see right after i got off my car.. A clump of dwarf Dypsis lutescens

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After that, I lost myself into the palm heaven. There're so many palms everywhere. I spent at least half an hour walking in circle in a small area because there're so many of them and they're different species... Can you see the red?

Calyptrocalyx elegans (sp. Mara)

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red is everywhere...unfortunately, many palms do not have name tags so some of them i need to guess...

Calyptrocalyx pollyphyllus

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Another Calyptrocalyx, not exactly sure what it was...

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I believe this one is Pinanga maculata...

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Pinanga caesia...I think

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A twin Areca vestiaria

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Areca macrocalyx cv. mariae...I love this one...

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beautiful new leaf of Iguanura speciosa...quite abundant here...but none of them is flowering..

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C. renda "Apple"

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now we can move from the red....to see Lodoicea maldivica with huge seeds!!

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see how they protect the seeds?

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Talk about seeds...Here is another one... Fruiting Pelagodoxa henryana

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And this is Phytelephas macrocarpa seeds....

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Of course...These colourful petioles belong to Pholidocarpus macrocarpus

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Arece catechu cv. Alba

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Another type of Dwarf Dypsis lutescens...If you read my New Garden thread, this is how my new acquisition will look like in the next few years...i hope..

[fiji jim]

Great palm pics Chalermchart.

Nong nooch is also on my list of 'must visit' when I can next travel.

It is said that this is arguably the best tropical garden for palms.

More please

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Reinhardtia simplex

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Thanks Jim...I'm sure you'll be here soon!..

A Corypha...I guess it's utan....very tall...again many of them here...

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I think this is a Dypsis hybrid...probably between cabadae and decaryi

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No idea what this one is...a Ravenea?

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Borassus aethiopum..Can't take the whole plant..it's so huge!

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Itaya amicorum

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Don't know this one but it's well protected...so it must be something...

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Licuala parviflora

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you can't miss this one....Maxburretia furtodoana...Very nice specimen...

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Iguanura wallichiana

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beautiful new leaf of a Iguanura

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variegated foxy lady...

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looking from a distance...i think this is Pigafetta

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newly planted Mauritia flexuosa

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Carpoxylon

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I don't know what this species is but it's a huge Arenga

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anyone has any idea?

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and the last one for now...It's a dwarf Licuala which i guess it is Licuala sp "Pitta" ....my favorite for this trip...Hope you enjoy the tour!

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That Licuala sp. "Pitta" WOW Oh yeah, I want one of those Reinhardtias!

[Neofolis]

Fantastic pictures Chalermchart, I really must visit. There are a few that you were unsure of the ID. I was just wondering if this is because many of the plants are not labelled or you didn't make a note at the time. I only ask, because if the plants are not labelled, I wouldn't have a clue what any of them are.

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Corey,

In fact, most of the plants I took the photos are not labelled. Only a few, such as Borassus, Lodoicea, L. parviflora are labelled. Because of this, I might miss many plants in the garden that I should pay attention to, just because i don't know the names.. Some of my guesses above might be wrong and i would be appreciated if anyone could help me correct it.