Jubaea chilensis in Rome, Italy

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We are here in Rome for a few days and just visited the Botanical garden today. In the palm garden they had some nice CIDP, very tall washingtonias, sabals, butias, livistonas, a queen, a brahea and some orher varieties but the most amazing was a massive jubaea chilensis.

Very impressive was also a nannorrhops ritchiana that seems to be very old.

 

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Here are some more photos from the same botanical garden.

Tall and small palmetto with a lot of med. fans for background.

This palmetto (no desciption) looks like one of the big varieties.

Livistona chinensis

Tall CIDPs

A tall queen

Butia with very tall washies in the back

This brahea didn't have a description but I don't remember any thorns on the petioles. The light is not very good in the photo but the palm is very silver.

Trachycarpus

Phoenix reclinata

More trachycarpus

Palmetto

The last one didn't have a description but it looks maybe like a copernicia alba. It's still in a big pot but I'm not sure if they will plant it in the ground or they will move it for the winter.