Trip to Greece

[Janni]

Hi, these are pictures taken at a trip to greece in 2007 with my girlfriend. We travelled trhough the peloponese peninsular, from Loutraki, Corinth over Nafplio to Kalamata in the south. This took us for about 1 week. After that we stayed a few days in a hostel in athens and the last trip was to northern greece, where my grandparents live and to Thessaloniki ( the second largest city of greece).

Especially in Nafplio - which btw was the first capital of modern greece - there was a big variety of palms. And this is unusual for greece, where you find almost everywhere just phoenix' and washingtonias - daspite of a very favourable climate for many other palm species.

In Part I I'll give you a taste of the beauty of the peloponese.

Enjoy the pics! (I hope this works! It's my first post with images...)

Ancient Corinth and the Isthmus of Corinth

Loutraki

View from Mycene down to Nafplio

[Janni]

Beautiful Nafplio

[Janni]

Palms in Napflio:

Syagrus Romanzoffiana

[Janni]

Caryota ?? in the background, freshly pruned. The cut leafes lied there on the street.

At first i thought this livistona was a rotundifolia. I wasn't that good in palm ID at that time, but as I look at this picture now, i suppose this is a L. Chinensis - sorry Maurice and Kosta...

Sabal Minor or most probably Palmetto

[Janni]

Rhapis Excelsa

Phoenix Roebellenii

Sabal ?? maybe Uresana?

Sabal or Livistona

[Janni]

Ravaena Rivularis

Strelitzia Nicolai - though not a palm, but also very nice

[Janni]

Last but not least a few pics from Kalamata

[Janni]

I hope you enjoyed it. Tomorrow I'll post the pictures of Athens.

I suppose I have to resize the pics - they are a bit to large, aren't they?

[jayfro6]

The size of the photos works for me. Thanks for sharing your interesting and pretty photos. It's neat to see the Sabals there.

[tikitiki]

Thethird palm in post 5 looks like L. decora

[Al in Kona]

Thethird palm in post 5 looks like L. decora

I'd also agree that is a Livistona decora, not L. uresana.

Al in Kona

[Jeff in Costa Rica]

Great photos! I look forward to seeing more.

[Janni]

Hi and thanks to all for the replys,

and thanks for the hint. i never thought of it, but palm No.3 in Post5 really looks like a L. decora.

[Kostas]

Great photos Janni,thanks a lot for sharing!!!

I am very happy to see such palms in Greece,never saw anything close to this variety here...I will be going to Nauplio next week so i will have the chance to see them from close and will check for more unusual palms and tropical trees I am sure i will love those Sabals and Ravenea

[Phoenikakias]

Hi Janni,

thanks for pointing out this thread. The purported Sabal uresana is actually a Livistona, probably decora, but I am not entirely sure, because I can also spot some differencies when I compare it to my decora. This is how it looks today 6 years after your visit.

[Phoenikakias]

The Caryota has already bloomed

[Phoenikakias]

...; and this how the Sabal look like now