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I think that too many people will continue to prune creating a population explosion as occurred in Spain and then they will turn to healthy unpruned trees as well. Those Egyptian plants were responsible for the scourge in Europe and now it seems in America too. I dont understand why the distribution of those contaminated plants was not stopped long ago.

- 2:37PM: Ok, here is the photo Bill has been bugging me about. It is the only one I have, and I cropped it down as much as I could to get Bill the image of his new friend. The two of them were inseparable for a while, as Bill took her and her boyfriend around the whole nursery looking at palms. I hardly saw them as I was in the shadehouse eating lunch and helping customers. I think the boyfriend was getting weary of Bill... - 2:45PM: "Oh yeah, good stuff." Donnie sings along with the radio and almost blows smoke rings from his cigar. - During a brief break in the lunch line, Andrea Searle gets a hotdog for her grandson, Braden. - 2:46PM: The crowd continued to grow steadily over the afternoon, as the day warmed up into the low 70sºF (21-23ºC). With an hour and fifteen minutes left in the Extravaganza, there was still a good selection of rare palms left for collectors; as long as they were not looking for the ultra rare. Ryan

This leaf is size of a VW bug!

Wal, I think you left out the most Monster of them all.....Lodoicea maldivica "Coco de Mer" there is nothing like it on Earth!!!

If you were wondering if you could actually fit a monster palm like Corypha in your front yard, well it can be done and has been done. Here's the proof and yes these photos have been shown before on the board.