Sarawak Palms in Habitat

[elHoagie]

Thanks for the comments guys!

I also thought the Arenga looked like undalatifolia at first, but then I talked myself out of it...

The roots of the Eugeissona were for eating! I never had a chance to try any, so I can't comment on the taste...

[doranakandawatta]

. I still have a LOT of photos of a LOT of additional palms, so stay tuned...

Yes we do!

Thanks, Jack

looking forward... soon?

[updog]

Great shots. Where did you all stay at Batang Ai? Looking forward to the Kubah N.P.photos.

[elHoagie]

Thanks for the comments!

In Batang Ai we spent our first two nights at Nanga Sumpa, then the next three nights at Lubok Kasai. Both lodges were built and maintained by local Iban communities.

At long last, I have a few of the palms from Kubah ready to go. First up is Areca furcata, which was fairly widespread. This is a small palm, maybe 2 m (6 ft) tall, with multiple stems approximately the diameter of my thumb.

[elHoagie]

Areca insignis, which we only saw in the park palmetum. The terminal leaflets were very distinctive! This is also a small palm, with stems not much larger than A. furcata.

[elHoagie]

Here's another very distinctive palm that we again saw only in the palmetum. The leaves are VERY thick, almost like cardboard. Areca subacaulis.

[elHoagie]

Caryota mitas, which we saw a few of...

[elHoagie]

Iguanura palmuncula. We saw this palm scattered in a few locations, but I wouldn't say it was common. This is a mid-sized palm, the biggest one we saw was probably 3-4 m (10 ft) tall.

[elHoagie]

We saw a few Johannesteisjmannia altifrons. Just as in Bako, they were restricted to one very small area in the park. They were much less impressive than the ones in Bako, with leaves that were noticeably shorter...

[elHoagie]

That's it for now, but I still have quite a few more photos from Kubah...

[chris.oz]

Ok, the next stop was a couple hours up the Delok river from Batang Ai. We spent 6 days in this area doing a lot of hiking looking for Orangutans, and we saw a lot of palms during the hikes. I don't have IDs for many of these palms, so any help would be appreciated.

First up is an unknown Arenga species. We didn't see too many of these. I'm pretty sure it's trunkless, as I don't remember seeing one that was "off the ground", but the leaves are huge (maybe 10 m or 30 ft long).

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I am up in Kota kinabalu, Sabah Borneo at the moment. These Arenga undulatifolia are growing everywhere here even 20 ft off the main coast road.

Fabulous looking palm and stand out a mile. Leaves are HUGE. They are growing alongside Oncosperma on slightly disturbed rainforest slopes

[Jeff Searle]

Can't wait until the 2016 Biennial!!!

[Just Another Dave]

Wow! Great stuff. We were in and around Kuching in Dec 2012/Jan 2013 for a couple weeks. We stayed up near Santubong at Permai Rainforest Resort and, yes, saw very few palms other than the mangrove palms you showed in the estuaries.

I did get down to Semengoh and got a tour of their arboretum and ethnobotany garden but not the palm garden. Here's an unknown (to me) that was growing along a fence with both flowers and fruit.

Down by Serian, near the Indonesian border, I was attracted to this road lined with what looks to my Florida eyes like royal palms.

I'm really excited about trying to attend this biennial! Any idea of what level of budget I need to be socking away?

Dave

[fan palm]

awesome thread guys! did anyone see L. orbicularis on Sarawak?

[updog]

Plenty of L. orbicularis in Kubah National park. Also the L. sarawakensis. Very lovely palms.

[Explorer]

We did a lot of hiking, and saw quite a bit of the park. However, we only saw Johannesteijsmannia altifrons growing in one very small section.

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Nice, that must be the same ones I had seen in Bako in 2002. And I had never seen them before that in the wild!

Also lots of Nepenthes in that area, about 6 species. Its a sandstone area. Also a kind of Cycas growths in that area.

Alexander

[Mandrew968]

We saw two species of Salacca in Bako, both with red emergent leaves. Here is the less commonly seen of the two - who knows the species?

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Probably affinis. Great photos as usual, Jack--also very nice meeting you at Dr. Block's Garden.

[amazondk]

A common palm in Bako is Onconosperma tigillarium, which is beautiful!

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Jack,

Thanks for the pictures. These palms look a lot like the euterpes that grow around my part of the tropics.

dk

[edric]

Here is Eugeissona insignis, which was growing everywhere in Bako. These palms are HUGE, with leaves that are at least 10m long. In one photo you can see a bridge on one of the trails to get a sense of scale.

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Great photos Jack, thanks, Ed

[jardinierpalmiertrat]

very nice trip!!!!!!!!!!!!!! . Palm tree, IN SITU is amazing!!

[LJG]

Jack, is this area where the IPS biennial will be next year?

[elHoagie]

I haven't tracked this thread as well as I should have... I do have more shots from Kubah that I should add...

To answer Len's question - yes, this is where a portion of the 2016 biennial will be. We do not yet have signed contracts, etc., so the itinerary is not set in stone, but the plan is base part of the biennial in Kuching. We will visit Bako and Kubah, where many of my photos were taken. We will also visit the Semenggoh Orangutan Sanctuary and it's palm collection (I did not visit this location during my trip).

[jardinierpalmiertrat]

beautiful Trip, amazing!!!!!!!!

[Kim]

Description of general plans (NOT FINAL) for 2016 Biennial Palm Trip:

https://www.palms.org/newsletter/August2014.pdf

[Yunder Wækraus]

Wonderful pix--Thank you!

[Moose]

On 5/12/2013, 3:48:14, elHoagie said:

Saw this Salacca, I think it's the same species as the first Salacca from Bako (the pictures from Bako are MUCH better than these)...

 

 

Salacca can get confusing. Salacca zalaçca has separate male and female plants that exhibit different characteristics although they are the same species. Another oddity in the palm world.

What's not to love about palms in habitat.

[Alberto]

Wow! Nice habitat photos! Thank you very much!

 

[piping plovers]

Thanks for sharing these.  The joeys were fascinating to view in their native habitat.