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Rare palms of Thailand in habitats

rthink

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I had a trip to the south of Thailand early this week to see some palms in habitats. Southern part of Thailand is home to the majorities of Thai native palms, about 80% of all native palms are there. Unfortunately, some of these areas are now very dangerous to enter due to terrorists. Our mission for this trip is to see about 15 species in 3 different locations with one area in the red zone (Betong) so we need to drive pass Malaysia to get to the area. The whole trip took 3 days and 2 nights in total.

This map shows the area we went to see palms.

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Chalermchart Soorangura

Bangkok, Thailand

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The first palm we went to see is in Trang province. It's on the top of a hill surrounded by oil palm plantations. It's incredible that this species, which is one of the rarest, is still survived in the center of the palm plantations.

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Bangkok, Thailand

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And this is female with seeds! 90% of Maxburretia furtadoana in habitats are male, so we are very lucky to be able to find a female with seeds. :lol:

This is the first day for our mission. I'll come back with more photos soon. Pinanga, Iguanura, Licuala lovers should not miss!

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Bangkok, Thailand

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More??

PLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAASSSSSEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

me toooooooooooooooooo

wait till nearly wet.......................................................................

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Very, very nice photos. I hope the 2012 Biennial will include seeing some palms in habitat.

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Bokeelia, Pine Island, Florida, USA

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What a great adventure Chalermchart. The Maxburretia look so elegant...

Sirinhaém beach, 80 Km south of Recife - Brazil

Tropical oceanic climate, latitude 8° S

Temperature extremes: 25 to 31°C

2000 mm average rainfall, dry summers

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Dear Chalermchart :)

lovely tour,and the palm looks beautiful.i like to ask you a question,here in india if the forest is so dense with vegitation,their will be snakes living in them...how is the condition their.do you have there venamous snakes too in those jungles ?

thanks & love,

Kris :)

love conquers all..

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Kris,

This kind of forest is perfect for snakes. Fortunately, we didn't find any of them for the whole trip. However, there are a few of leeches that disturbed us. What concerns me more is human. As I stated previously, we were in terrorists zone, although it should be safe where we were but we had to be very careful.

I'll post pictures of the 2nd day soon.

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Bangkok, Thailand

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I just have some more free time. I'll post a few pictures before going to bed.

The 2nd day we went to the most southern part of thailand which is the border between Thailand and Malaysia in a province called Yala. Because the province is very dangerous nowadays, we chose to drive to Malaysia from the other side and get to a city called Betong via Malaysia border so we don't have to pass the city of Yala where we'll have high chance of being attacked by terrorists.

This map show the route that we passed through.

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Chalermchart Soorangura

Bangkok, Thailand

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This is the forest that we looked for palms. It's just on the border line and because of that, there's no one destroyed it.

Here you'll see how the forest looks like. The man in the picture is Poonsak Vatcharakorn. He's the one who showed me around. These places are like his home. He always said that.

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Bangkok, Thailand

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amazing stuff! how exciting to find wonderful palms like that just growing out in the open! :lol:

the "prince of snarkness."

 

still "warning-free."

 

san diego,california,left coast.

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Chalermchart,

What a great venture you and Poonsak took. I wish I could of gone. This kind of reminded me of the biennial in 1998 when we as a group went near the Thai/Malaysia border. We had a military escourt to go along with us.

There's nothing like seeing very cool palms in habitat. The thrill of finding them is very exciting I think. Thanks, and I look forward to lots more.....

Jeff

Searle Brothers Nursery Inc.

and The Rainforest Collection.

Southwest Ranches,Fl.

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Chalermchart, thanks for the photos! I really enjoy seeing palms in habitat. I hope you have more. :)

Formerly Jeff in Costa Rica
 

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