Parking Lot Palms

[pindo]

This is EXACTLY why I try not too ID a palm from a picture here on PT too often. It just can be too hard most times. Good 'hunch" to Jeff and a great call to Mantis for seeing them upclose and reporting back to us all. B efore someone got hurt.....

Hi jeff

I totally agree with you. I've been wrong so many times ..... but I never learn the lesson....

Best for you

[Jeff in Costa Rica]

Some pics in Allbrok parking lot

Pindo, thanks for posting some close-up photos of the palms at Albrook Mall and for explaining how they prepare Acrocomia for planting in public spaces.

[Moose]

Some pics in Allbrok parking lot

Pindo, thanks for posting some close-up photos of the palms at Albrook Mall and for explaining how they prepare Acrocomia for planting in public spaces.

Hmmmm - after viewing Pindo's photos, I gotta admit confusion. Thanks for posting them. It looks like Acrocomia aculeata up at the top. Thorns on the old leaf bases look right too. Could this be like a sabal palmetto scenario where some leaf bases remain on certain palms while others drop? Preparing the palms as you stated makes sense. They do look like they have been there awhile.

Just checked Andrew Henderson's Field Guide To The Palms Of The Americas. He only recognizes Acrocomia aculeata and Acrocomia hassleri as valid species. Of course this was published prior to putting A. crispa back into the genus. Also states that Acrocomia aculeata is variable and that all the other reported species were "overdescribed". A. hassleri does not trunk, so that species has to be ruled out.

It was also noted that Acrocomia aculeata may have been introduced into Costa Rica by pre-Columbian Indians.

I'm stumped ...

[amazondk]

The oil palm industry has develope a hybrid of the Elais guineensis and the Elais oleifera which resulted in a shorter more compact tree which is easier to harvest. The E. oleifera that I have seen around here do have trunks, but they are short trees. That is in a nativer group of trees some do have some trunk. That would be my guess anyway.

[WaianaeCrider]

Old thread LOL

Just some Cuban (I guess) Royals at Home Depot in Pearl City, O`ahu.