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MASOALA JASON

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What a freakish palm! I spotted this palm about a month ago and finally got enough nerve to go take a picture. This was the first time I could actually touch an inflorescense of a Washingtonia. The palm grows on the Western border of LA's "beautiful" inland empire in the lovely city of Scumona whoops.... Pomona.

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Those are weird.  The only others I've seen like that were growing in a monkey enclosure at the SD zoo.  I always figured the monkeys did it.  The people at that house don't happen to have any pet monkeys, do they??

Matt

San Diego

0.6 Acres of a south facing, gently sloped dirt pile, soon to be impenetrable jungle

East of Mount Soledad, in the biggest cold sink in San Diego County.

Zone 10a (I hope), Sunset 24

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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There are a couple serpentine specimens at the LA Arburetum in Arcadia (Joan never went there . . . ) and there was one in the infamous Groin of the 101 Freeway in Downtown Los Analjuice, which got taken out . . . .

dave

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Walter John Grand Master

Walter John

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I swear I can see that palm moving. that's not an inflorescense, that's a set of fangs.

Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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BS Man about Palms

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Its kinda like a traffic accident....you just kinda keep looking, but you know you shouldn't.....

Bill

Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time.

"The great workman of nature is time."   ,  "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."

-George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon-

I do some experiments and learning in my garden with palms so you don't have to experience the pain! Look at my old threads to find various observations and tips!

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Kim Grand Master

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This one is in San Ignacio, Baja California, Mexico:

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Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
All characters  in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Kris Grand Master

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Here in india such conditions are explained as

the palm is unable to send roots deep due

to some cement or concreatised structure buried

deep under this palm. i have seen coconut trees

growing in that fashion but never in case of Washingtonias !

love,

kris.

love conquers all..

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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M. Jason:

Hmm.  What took you over to Yo-Mama?

It is a place best avoided, as conceded by many people who live (or lived) there.

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Dave,

       A place where one can buy crack, meth, and PCP on the same street along with gang violence forcing the prostitutes and pedophiles to run for cover....

 Unfortunately my reason is less "exciting". CSU Pomona is only one of two CSU's offering a specific degree in plant biology. The other at Humbolt State( too much rain for me) Luckily I have completed my coursework and am in the process of tranferring to gradschool to pursue botanical research( Ethnobotany, Conservation, Aracaceae, etc...) To pay my way through my undergrad, I was a paramedic for an ambulance company in  Scumona and wouldn't even reccomend entering south Pomona. As you can see even the palms grow accordingly to their environment.

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Jason,

   Great photo! What a speciman, it's a shame it's in this yard, when it could be displayed in a nice hotel setting,or even at a large theme park.

Searle Brothers Nursery Inc.

and The Rainforest Collection.

Southwest Ranches,Fl.

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(MASOALA JASON @ Aug. 22 2006,18:26)

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       A place where one can buy crack, meth, and PCP on the same street along with gang violence forcing the prostitutes and pedophiles to run for cover....

 Unfortunately my reason is less "exciting". CSU Pomona is only one of two CSU's offering a specific degree in plant biology. The other at Humbolt State( too much rain for me) Luckily I have completed my coursework and am in the process of tranferring to gradschool to pursue botanical research( Ethnobotany, Conservation, Aracaceae, etc...) To pay my way through my undergrad, I was a paramedic for an ambulance company in  Scumona and wouldn't even reccomend entering south Pomona. As you can see even the palms grow accordingly to their environment.

Oh, my, you certainly saw stuff most people never see.

I was a taxi driver, in the San Fernando Valley in the late 1990s and I thought THAT was a wild ride.

Lots of drunks, druggies, and a couple who made whooppee in the back seat . . . .

And, I think, Jack Warner for a passenger, and that short guy with the glasses from Seinfeld.

A wild ride, but NOTHING like being a paramedic.

dave

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