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After seeing Philippe’s recent ’Fifty thousand shades of grey’ post we thought it would be interesting to have a white post but didn’t expect to find as many palms with white on them as we found in our own garden. Like the paint samples in a home improvement store they are not all the same color of white, which is consistent with the way the word ‘white’ is often used in descriptions of palms in books and journals. The various whites appear on many different parts of palms. In our garden the most frequent appearance of white is the glauca on the new spear. But we also found it on crownshafts, trunks, seeds, and on the underside of leaves. Most of the pictures were taken using fill flash, so the whites are more brilliant in the photos than they are to the naked eye. Here are some of the pictures we took yesterday. We have a few more, but will only post them if no one else posts pictures of those palms. So, let’s see your whites! Mike and Lee Areca catechu dwdarf .............................Carpentaria acuminata Bentinkia condapanna .............................Caryota mitis trunk Cayota mitis variegate ...........................Caryota zebrina

In habitat means here in Ella and Passara areas, at an elevation of around 1000 m.

Andrew, What are those beautiful big palms? They must older than you are! Good to see someone your age already into palms. Lee Tracy

Socratea exhorrhiza .............................Veitchia arecina Wallichia densiflora dwarf ......................................Wodyetia bifurcate leaf underside on young plant "A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit." D. Elton Trueblood

Polyandrococos caudescens ...............................Pritchardia Pritchardia affinis frond ...............................Pritchardia Rhapis excelsa

Hydriastele macrospadix ..........................Hyophorbe indica seeds Hyophorbe lagenicaulis ......................Normanbya normanbya Pinanga maculata

Dypsis pinnatifrons Dypsis saintelucei Dypsis sp Dypsis sp Hydriastele kasesa

Clinostigma samonese.............................Cyphophoenix elegans spear Dypsis cabade ................................Dypsis decaryii Dypsis leptocheilos

You can be sure I will bring this up at the Miami meeting, just like "exhibit A", if no changes to fix/scrap either have been made by then. Best, TOBY