Butia odorata

[edric]

Germinated in 1994, it has the best fruit I have ever eaten, the seed that produced this specimen came from a tree, where an old house built in the 1800's, on the corner of the first canal on the back road to Cape Kennedy. When the government took over the Cape the house was so far gone, they tore it down and all that was left was the tree, I went back in 1995 to collect fruit, and the tree was dead, I dug this seedling (then) up at the base of the dead tree, just pushing its third leaf, Ed

[Nigel]

Germinated in 1994, it has the best fruit I have ever eaten, the seed that produced this specimen came from a tree, where an old house built in the 1800's, on the corner of the first canal on the back road to Cape Kennedy. When the government took over the Cape the house was so far gone, they tore it down and all that was left was the tree, I went back in 1995 to collect fruit, and the tree was dead, I dug this seedling (then) up at the base of the dead tree, just pushing its third leaf, Ed

What a wonderful example that is.

[Mandrew968]

For some reason, I really like these palms. They are not common in South Florida, but they don't grow well down south either. You see many more the further north you go. Ed, that is a beauty--like a frozen silver fountain! My grandmother loves to argue with me that these are date palms, as she would eat the "dates" back when she was a kid.

[edric]

Thanks fellas, here's a better shot of the fruit, Ed