Landscape Palms of Jakarta

[iwan]

Finally getting around to posting some pics from our trip to Indonesia.  It is going to take a while because of the 102k file size limit and my limited free time.

In June my wife and I returned to Indonesia for a family wedding.  The first stop was Jakarta.  What follows are landscape palms of a modern housing development.  I will make very few attempts at identification as my identification skills are limited even with California hardy palms, no way for true tropicals.  

Identifications welcome!

A neglected Bottle palm along the road:

[iwan]

I was so focued on the palm in the foreground I almost missed (just about) everyone's favorite palm in the background.

Infructescence of previous palm:

[iwan]

Street trees.  Brahea/Livistona?

[iwan]

Some of the nicest Wodyetias I saw in Java/Bali:

Nice Roystonea, the Washingtonias of the tropics (according to many people I talked to).

[iwan]

A pohon kelapa for pohonkelapa.  Even the streets are named after palms.

Orchids growing on a Bottle trunk (very common).

Another palm street sign (Aregna Street):

The rest of the album can be viewed at:

Landscape Palms of Jakarta

[iwan]

A couple palms I saw a lot of in Jakarta that were surprisingly unremarkable were Dypsis decaryi and Bismarkia nobilis.  The decaryi's looked very sparce/sickly and appeared to be covered in a black sooty (sp?) mold.  The Bismarkias were very washed out.  Unfortunately, my Bismarkia pictures turned out way over exposed for some reason and were not salvagable.

[Neofolis]

Great pics Robert, since my ID skills are no better than yours I won't attempt either.

[Gileno Machado]

Nice pictures Robert.

Your unknown palms in post # 3 are probably Livistona chinensis, a bit overpruned. The Roystoneas look great. They are borinquenas from Puerto Rico in my opinion.

[Kris]

Dear Iwan  

thanks for those lovely stills of lovely palms,

lovely photography & lovely location.

thanks for sharing !

love,

Kris.

[paulgila]

thanks for the great pics! i almost missed them!

#1 is adonidia merilli(palem hijau).i don't know what those fan palms are--i never saw those there.

the street sign pics are great."palem aren" is arenga pinnata(maybe you already know this but i was so excited i  started blurting this all out!)i've never been to jakarta but been to bali 3 times.going back in november!

i can't wait!!!!what parts of bali did you see?any more pics?

[iwan]

(Gileno Machado @ Sep. 30 2006,05:20)

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Nice pictures Robert.

Your unknown palms in post # 3 are probably Livistona chinensis, a bit overpruned. The Roystoneas look great. They are borinquenas from Puerto Rico in my opinion.

Thanks Gileno,

Here is a closeup of the crown (if it helps).

[iwan]

(pohonkelapa @ Sep. 30 2006,20:59)

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thanks for the great pics! i almost missed them!

#1 is adonidia merilli(palem hijau).i don't know what those fan palms are--i never saw those there.

the street sign pics are great."palem aren" is arenga pinnata(maybe you already know this but i was so excited i  started blurting this all out!)i've never been to jakarta but been to bali 3 times.going back in november!

i can't wait!!!!what parts of bali did you see?any more pics?

Pohonkelapa,

I wish I had taken more pictures of the street sign names.  Other street names in the complex that I remember were Palem Anggur (lit. grape palm, not sure what genus that is) and  Palem Sirai (I can't translate this one).

I have a ton of pictures and will be posting as time allows.  Next stop Kebun Raya Bogor (Bogor Botanical Garden).

One thing I found interesting was the large number of artificial palms seen, both indoors and out (in Java mostly).

[paulgila]

i'm droling over the pics of kebun raya bogor before i even see them!

[paulgila]

the unidentified fan palm(post # 3) looks like sabal a bit ???

[paulgila]

i saw some bizzies in denpasar that looked GREAT--right behind the galleria by the big traffic circle.they have planted some new ones on the street coming out of the airport,too...

[BS Man about Palms]

You know, the palms in post #3 look like Brahea Edulis to me.  ???

[SunnyFl]

Thank you for posting these photos, Robert.  So wonderful to see all these palms in Indonesia - what a great trip that must have been!

[Logolight]

I'm going to guess pics 3 and 4 are Carpentaria Acuminatas.

[paulgila]

i was thinking 3 & 4 look like a ptychosprema sp. ???