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Roystoneas!  In habitat!

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Howdyall:

I wanted to avoid too many artificial attractions and try to focus on natural things, which, of course, have a way being made artificial, but that's for the philosphers to worry about over beer or fermented grape juice.

So, I went to the Collier-Seminole State Park just south of Naples on the west coast of FL on the way to Miami.

This park includes a natural "hammock" which is a raised limestone dome upon which grows various trees and plants, and which must endure extremes of dry and wet.

This appears to be a remnant Roystonea population, though it is regenerating itself.

Here's a general view of some wild Royals from the parking lot.

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This sign explains in more detail what a hammock is.

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The "soil" in a hammock is VERY shallow.  This tree just blew over.

That's solid rock underneath it.

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Closeup with The Shoe for scale, size 12, 30 cm long.

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They look really nice and healthy.  There's also supposed to be a lot of florida royals at the Fakahatchee Strand State Park.  I need to take a trip down there next time I'm down around Naples.

Pinellas Park, Florida

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Forest royal sky.

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Zoom shot of the crown.  Note the faded infructescences.

Alas!  I was late . . . .

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Anything to demonstrate a destinction between Roystonea elata and regia?

What you look for is what is looking

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Love those Royal palm pics. After this last freeze I think I will have the one I have removed along with the Caryotas.

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Hope not.

Removing Roystneas sounds like a tragic play . . . .

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Here's another.

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Here's the Shoe on a trunk of a royal for size.  Note all the lichen growing all over it.  The trunk, I mean . . .

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Here's the crown.  Magnificent.

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Here's a young plant, ready to break through the canopy.

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Its native distribution in Florida is sadly limited, though it's locally abundant.  Here's the Institute for Regional Ecology's info page: regionalconservation.org

For better or worse, royals have naturalized all over south Florida.  I recently spotted a feral colony along I-95 near Ft Lauderdale airport.

Fla. climate center: 100-119 days>85 F
USDA 1990 hardiness zone 9B
Current USDA hardiness zone 10a
4 km inland from Indian River; 27º N (equivalent to Brisbane)

Central Orlando's urban heat island may be warmer than us

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(Dave from So-Cal @ Jan. 05 2008,09:43)

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This sign explains in more detail what a hammock is.

Shady place? Never heard that definition before. Hammock for me, besides the definition being given in this thread (very common in these parts), is a "fabric sling used for sleeping, resting, " ... or, in your case may have come in handy, swooning.

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Zone 9b pine flatlands

humid/hot summers; dry/cool winters

with yearly freezes

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Dave,

I like the foot on palm with pant leg pictures.  They are beautiful palms in a natural setting.  Not that they aren't elswhere.  As to soil thickiness tropical soils are normally quite shallow and trees falling over is pretty common.  In our forest here most of the trees roots are at the surface and even big trees may fall over pretty easily.  There are roots which go deep down for moisture, but these I don't think they do much to support the tree.  

Nice pictures.

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Hammock is the general term for hardwood forest in Florda.  As in San Felasco Hammock (north of Gainesville [Felasco seems to be a corruption of Francisco]), Annutteliga Hammock (Hernando County), Matheson Hammock (next to Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden), etc.

Fla. climate center: 100-119 days>85 F
USDA 1990 hardiness zone 9B
Current USDA hardiness zone 10a
4 km inland from Indian River; 27º N (equivalent to Brisbane)

Central Orlando's urban heat island may be warmer than us

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Hey Dave, thanks for the great shots!

I bet these royals have seen a freeze or 2... They may have just seen less than 32F this last week!

Dave, you could have sold seeds from these for good money  :;):

Parrish, FL

Zone 9B

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Hadda doink this to compare with Zeeth's post.

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9 hours ago, DoomsDave said:

Hadda doink this to compare with Zeeth's post.

Frond for Frond, they're equal.. though, any post featuring Chucky T's has a slight advantage. Then again.. there were Alligators to cross...

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