Everything Palms in the Bay Area!!!

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what happened here???

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beautiful leaf!

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Ceroxylon parvifrons I believe

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Ceroxylon vogelianum again

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Edible Musa!

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Caryota urens

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While I was in SFBG at Strybing Arboretum I came across my first Plectocomia himalayana! These are very interesting rattan palms. Sorry the photos are not that good. The shot is of the entire palms. It has two main branches, with one climbing up the trunk of a tree on the left, and another branch climbing up the branches and leaves of a dicot tree. I noticed that where the trunk bends, the palm will send out another branch! I've always heard that rattan palms branched, albeit not dichotomously, but never knew how since all photos of them just show a mess of pinnate fronds. I'm sorry these aren't the best quality.

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What a great climate! Banyans in cool weather.Are you trying to confuse Budda?

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Caryota urens

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A Rhodedendron from New Guinea!

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Gunnera insignis

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Now here are two unknown Livistonas. Anyone have an idea?

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Livistona australis

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Rhopalostylis!

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Oraniopsis appendiculata!!

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A smaller Rhopalostylis sapida

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A smaller Oraniopsis

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A very very small Cyathea!

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The Ceroxylons again!

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A medley of Phoenix canariensis at the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park.

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I also "discovered" a mass planting of Howea forsteriana! In groups they look very tropical! They seem to love the lack of heat!!

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De Young Museum with two old Jubaea chilensis in the beyond!

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The next photos are taken in Oakland's Lakeside Palmetum. It's one of the better microclimates in the bay area, with more summer heat and much less fog.

To start off, a Phoenix hybrid.

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Musa basjoo

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Butiagrus!!

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Trachycarpus wagnernianus forest!! Weird name for a palm I think.

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yay! Butia yatay

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Beautiful Brahea armata!!!