Skip to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.
PalmTalk

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

WELCOME GUEST

It looks as if you are viewing PalmTalk as an unregistered Guest.

Please consider registering so as to take better advantage of our vast knowledge base and friendly community.  By registering you will gain access to many features - among them are our powerful Search feature, the ability to Private Message other Users, and be able to post and/or answer questions from all over the world. It is completely free, no “catches,” and you will have complete control over how you wish to use this site.

PalmTalk is sponsored by the International Palm Society. - an organization dedicated to learning everything about and enjoying palm trees (and their companion plants) while conserving endangered palm species and habitat worldwide. Please take the time to know us all better and register.

guest Renda04.jpg

nice Baobab Tree in Delray Beach, FL

Eric in Orlando
Eric in Orlando
in TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms

Featured Replies

I spotted this nice Baobab Tree (Adansonia digitata) specimen near downtown Delray Beach, FL (between Palm Beach and Ft. Lauderdale). Give it another 100-200 years and it will look like the giant trees in Africa !

2i9rr80.jpg

2ecgfmc.jpg

2edc9og.jpg

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

Very cool!

San Fernando Valley, California

they do get big quickly. We have 6 different ones...need help confirming id tho

The Palm Mahal

Hollywood Fla

Believe it or not, this one has been in the ground in Puerto Rico for several years. I started it from seed in my Virginia greenhouse. A really slow one for me, but perhaps someone a hundred years from now will be really glad I planted it!

post-4111-0-30610300-1378315049_thumb.jp

Cindy Adair
  • Author

I love the 2 big specimens at Fairchild and the big one at The Kampong in Miami.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

I've been driving past literally hundreds and hundreds of them most of today. Also will be most of tomorrow, until I get out of the Kimberley and Vic River regions. Adansonia gregori. Most of the bigger ones have been badly graffitied, because it's along the major road. There were some fantastic shapes amongst them, there sure are some artistic genes in their makeup.

Nice find Eric. I'll defiantly give this a drive by. I think i know where it is, but I don't know why I haven't noticed it before.

"If you need me, I'll be outside" -Randy Wiesner Palm Beach County, Florida Zone 10Bish

It is nice to see something other than the same old tree used in a commercial landscape.

Randy, I googled it, in the Check Cashing Store on Atlantic, just west of Swinton. I never saw it either because traffic there is always so busy you don't have a chance to look around when you are driving.

So many species,

so little time.

Coconut Creek, Florida

Zone 10b (Zone 11 except for once evey 10 or 20 years)

Last Freeze: 2011,50 Miles North of Fairchilds
  • Author

Its right near downtown.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

Wasn't there a really big one down there somewhere, maybe associated with a old restaurant or something? Seems like I remember something like that, but it could have been another tree species.

In my post I sometimes express "my" opinion. Warning, it may differ from "your" opinion. If so, please do not feel insulted, just state your own if you wish. Any data in this post is provided 'as is' and in no event shall I be liable for any damages, including, without limitation, damages resulting from accuracy or lack thereof, insult, or any other damages

There are some huge ones in Disney's Animal Kingdom....oops, actually they are fake, they did a good job on them though.

Corpus Christi, TX, near salt water, zone 9b/10a! Except when it isn't and everything gets nuked.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1985-04-02/news/8501120336_1_tree-baobab-banyan

In my post I sometimes express "my" opinion. Warning, it may differ from "your" opinion. If so, please do not feel insulted, just state your own if you wish. Any data in this post is provided 'as is' and in no event shall I be liable for any damages, including, without limitation, damages resulting from accuracy or lack thereof, insult, or any other damages

A happy ending...........for the tree :)

http://webapps.broward.org/newsrelease/AdminDisplayMessages.aspx?intMessageId=3611

"If you need me, I'll be outside" -Randy Wiesner Palm Beach County, Florida Zone 10Bish

Nice.

In my post I sometimes express "my" opinion. Warning, it may differ from "your" opinion. If so, please do not feel insulted, just state your own if you wish. Any data in this post is provided 'as is' and in no event shall I be liable for any damages, including, without limitation, damages resulting from accuracy or lack thereof, insult, or any other damages

  • Author

I've been driving past literally hundreds and hundreds of them most of today. Also will be most of tomorrow, until I get out of the Kimberley and Vic River regions. Adansonia gregori. Most of the bigger ones have been badly graffitied, because it's along the major road. There were some fantastic shapes amongst them, there sure are some artistic genes in their makeup.

Very cool ! I have some young seedlings of A. gregorii to try here.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a
  • Author

There are some huge ones in Disney's Animal Kingdom....oops, actually they are fake, they did a good job on them though.

There are actually some nice ones at AK in the village that are real. All the ones on the savannah are used to hide feeders.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a
  • Author

Wasn't there a really big one down there somewhere, maybe associated with a old restaurant or something? Seems like I remember something like that, but it could have been another tree species.

Are you thinking of the old Kapok Tree Inn in St. Petersburg/Clearwater ? The big tree is actually a Bombax ceiba.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a
  • Author

This is the Baobab that was saved

IMG_4357.jpg

http://i859.photobucket.com/albums/ab156/leu42/Tropical%20Trees/IMG_4357.jpg

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

Create an account or sign in to comment
Go to topic listing

Account

Navigation

Configure browser push notifications
Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.