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New drone video of Leonel Mera's palm collection in the Dominican Republic


GMann

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This is my last drone video from our trip to Dominican Republic. It is Leonel Mera's palm collection at his ranch near Santiago. We arrived a little late in the day and we had a long drive that evening to get down to the south side of the island so we did not have a lot of time here. So unfortunately I was only able to do one flight on one side of his property. The video covers about half of his collection. There were quite a few bigger Copernicias on the other side that I did not get to film.

 

 

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Very nice. I have known about Leonel and his great impact on the palm world for years and always wondered what his collection would look like. It would have been a worthy stop during the D.R. biennial for sure.

Ryan

South Florida

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Probably was not that much to see back then as everything was much smaller.Now,there ARE some pretty good size trees to look at,along with hundreds of 1 to 3 gallon size palms randomly planted on the very hilly terrain. Here are a few stills to get a closer look at some of Leonel's palms that caught my eye.

 

aztropic

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Wow, the grove of Psuedophoenix ekmanii is superb! Thanks for posting your video!

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Leonel Mera's farm will definitely give you a palm overload! So many species,too little time...

I am very thankful to both Leonel Mera and GMann for providing me this once in a lifetime experience.Danger seemed to be lurking around every corner for us, as the terrain was unforgiving to be sure, but we made it. :)

 

aztropic

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20 hours ago, aztropic said:

Leonel Mera's farm will definitely give you a palm overload! So many species,too little time...

I am very thankful to both Leonel Mera and GMann for providing me this once in a lifetime experience.Danger seemed to be lurking around every corner for us, as the terrain was unforgiving to be sure, but we made it. :)

 

aztropic

Mesa,Arizona

It was awesome to have you along for the trip. All of your laughing everytime the rental car hit a rock on those crazy dirt roads, that helped take some of the stress off. The car made it back to the airport, limping...

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Just had to have another look at this trip taken exactly 2 years ago. What an incredible experience, that will never be forgotten.:)

 

aztropic

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