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From the latest issue of Palms "New fossils from Big Bend National Park suggest that dinosaurs may have eaten Sabal palm fruits. In their paper "Fossil Palms associated with juvenile herbivorous dinosaurs in the Upper Cretaceous Aguija formation, Big Bend national park, Texas", S. Manchester and coauthors described two new species of extinct Sabal from fossilized seeds that look remarkably similar to those of modern species. More surprisingly, they showed how the seeds were associated with the bones of juvenile dinosaurs (hadrosaurs and ceratopsians). They surmised that palms similar to modern Sabal species may have been food sources for young Herbivorous dinosaurs."

Hi everyone. I posted a video of the Biennial to Brazil. I used facebook because the video is 15 minutes and yotube wont allow over 10 minutes. Here is the Link. IPS 2010 Biennial BRAZIL If you have never been in facebook you can just sign in with 6 bits of info and there is no charge. Robin Crawford

The 2010/2011 farmer's Almanac is predicting a colder and wetter winter than last year. I don't think alot of palms will be able to handle two cold winters in a row. Even here in Miami Beach some things are just starting to look good. Coconut's took the biggest hit down here. Our lowest low was 35 degrees on at least 3 nights. Two days never got out of the high 40's during the day. I hope their prediction is wrong.

The University of Miami may have turned the corner and are starting to gel as a team. Defense ranked No. 10 in the nation so far. Perhaps we may win the ACC this year?

I take it Rick that your significant other does'nt visit here on Palmtalk?? I'm telling!! Just kidding! I was born in Melbourne Florida and moved to Coral Gables when i was young. Later i moved to Orlando and grew up on a 25,000 acre ranch. There was a hammock that was nothing but huge Sabals and beautifull green grass, probably about 5 acres large. That was my favorite place there. That was when i was 12 yrs old, and that is when the palm bug bit! I returned to south Florida and lived in Key Largo and Miami and i vowed that when i bought my own property i would fill it w/ my own palms. Unfortunatly, i got a job offer i could not refuse and moved to Orlando again and here i am! I remebered a large Mule palm in Orlando that when i was young i had allways mistaken it for a coconut palm. I drove by it one day and had witnessed a guy w/ a chainsaw who had just cut down minutes before a Queen. I stopped and asked him if the Mule was next and he said yes! I offered him $250 for it and it is now in my yard! Amazing! I grew up loving this palm and as luck would have it, i saved it! That started my love for the Mule palm and i vowed to learn how to produce them seeing i could'nt find any for sale here at that time. Here it is!

That's a lovely cluster you've got there! Enjoy... For me, I just trim away the yellowed/brown old fronds at the petioles. The petiole arm which later dries out will come away naturally. It's easier to tidy then. As for the 'pups', we let them be, the more the merrier!! cheers