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Need ID on skinny palm at ANSG

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PalmatierMeg Grand Master

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Are the leaf tips pointed or praemorse (ragged looking). If praemorse I would venture it is a skinny, solitary Ptychosperma. Neat little palm.

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Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
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Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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bubba Grand Master

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Leaf tips are praemorse. Doing my own research, I believe it to a Ptychosperma nicolai. This is a rare Ptychosperma, which is extremely skinny. It has no tag but is a quarter of the diameter of P. elegans.

Not far away is a palm labeled P. nicolai, which is clearly a P. elegans. One of more than a few mislabeled palms at ANSG! Great species!

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Palms can get greatly distorted growing in shade and are hard to ID.  Word of the day: etiolated.

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So many species,

so little time.

Coconut Creek, Florida

Zone 10b (Zone 11 except for once evey 10 or 20 years)

Last Freeze: 2011,50 Miles North of Fairchilds

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17 hours ago, PalmatierMeg said:

Are the leaf tips pointed or praemorse (ragged looking)....

Thank you for that, I've been calling them serrated this whole time :) 

22 minutes ago, Jerry@TreeZoo said:

Word of the day: etiolated.

Nice.  Will add that to the repertoire as well.  It's nice to have access to people who are smarter than me.  

Great jungle palm. 

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bubba Grand Master

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A few examples of the ubiquitous P. elegans with etiolated/praemorse tips both in the jungle (ANSG) and local relatively wide trunked street cats:9E8A34E1-00F3-489B-9441-4F268140745A.thumb.jpeg.03ffbbf7c3cec1f65bcfa572bfb5c5ec.jpeg

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Inappropriately labeled:D6BA3F0B-AB48-4F64-95CD-2FE665CF3064.thumb.jpeg.f3f96d138286ee14c5650a95452ebcb3.jpeg

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Street cats to the right:2F7E4508-E0E1-4A2E-8322-80B159BBBF2E.thumb.jpeg.aea10dc39b140c5d56c319fec4b989d4.jpeg

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Not really a street cat but growing at Henry Flagler’s house. 1CA05193-4758-4DBA-B94B-702AFB30834D.thumb.jpeg.14b142eed1c5a8aa578a760ce2eb3cd4.jpegLook hard it may be a little skinny:

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