Palmeraie union at Madagascar

[olivier971]

With some friends of Palmeraie Union society, we just came back from Madagascar.

We did an fantastic trip on East Coast looking for some of the most rare and exciting species of palm.

We brought incredible pictures !!

ALL PICTURES SOON !!!

[joe_OC]

Amazing! Looking forward to more pictures. ID's of palms would greatly be appreciated.

[Cindy Adair]

What a great adventure! I can see by your expressions in the photos that you had a wonderful time. Can't wait for even more photos and names of the palms if you know them. Thanks!

[doranakandawatta]

Olivier!

Merci beaucoup!

But we can't wait for next pictures!

[Astrophoenix]

is this...real..?

[George Sparkman]

As always great photos Olivier !

Please keep them coming as many as possible, please.

[fan palm]

Awesome pics! Is that D. ovobontsira in the third pic?

Cheers

[Walter John]

Fabulous, any identity of the pictured palms ?

[Alicehunter2000]

Man that first palm is a stunner.....what is the id on that one.

[olivier971]

I was sure you'd love them !!!

1) Dypsis hovomantsina

2) Dypsis pachyramea

3) Dypsis sp. (not described yet / aff. carlsmithi)

4) Marojejya darianii

5) Oriana longisquama

6) Satranala decussilvae

A lot of others species will coming soon !!

[akamu]

WOW what great dypsis in pic #1 & 3 don't stop we need more

[Mandrew968]

That hovomantsina trunk is so vibrant it looks fake! I love the Orania.

[Bill Austin]

Many thanks great pic. that dypsis hov.is unreal please more.

[joe_OC]

LOVE LOVE LOVE #1&3!

[colin Peters]

Wow, beautiful pictures, some really nice stuff on the website you listed also.

thank you for sharing

aloha

[paulgila]

that is amazing! thanks so much for sharing these pics!

[Firepalm]

The first one is so perfect it looks fake! As always thanks so much for making us Dypsis lovers drool...

[bgl]

Olivier,

Wow, what an amazing opportunity and adventure! And great pictures! Needless to say we can't get enough pictures of palms in habitat in Madagascar so I hope you have more...!

Bo-Göran

[richnorm]

Superbe!

[olivier971]

The first one is so perfect it looks fake! As always thanks so much for making us Dypsis lovers drool...

Yes the Dypsis hovomantsina is fantastic !!!

[richnorm]

Hey Olivier, did you see any young plants and did they look like this...?!

[Walter John]

6) Satranala, the forest Bismarkia, now who has one of these growing ?

[olivier971]

Hey Olivier, did you see any young plants and did they look like this...?!

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Définitively not ..

Here is a young D hovomantsina in habitat :

Very different ...

[LJG]

Hey Olivier, did you see any young plants and did they look like this...?!

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Marcus is selling something similar as "Dypsis sp betefaka".

[richnorm]

Thanks Olivier, that is very helpful. Don't suppose you have any shots of a similar sized ankaizinensis from Tsaratanana?!

Thanks too Len, got a pic?

[Cindy Adair]

I know this is small, but does anyone have an opinion as to the species? I planted it as D. hovomantsina in 2010 so it's 3 years in the ground in partial shade in Puerto Rico. These are the only 2 photos I can find.

[humangenomaproject]

What an epic trip. Post #3 is interesting and I thought it was a Ovobontsira until I noticed the petioles were not flat and the trunk was not dark. Stunning nonetheless. Do you need malaria pills to travel there?

[LJG]

Hey Olivier, did you see any young plants and did they look like this...?!

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Here is one being nursed back to health

[richnorm]

Thanks Len. I've got four, about 15 years old, finally starting to move since planting.

[olivier971]

As some of you asked me, here some pictures of the top of Dypsis hovomantsina

[Pedro 65]

Thank you Oliver for posting my request and thank you for a "wonderful thread"

Oliver after seeing the incredibly "beautiful trunk and crownshaft", I had to see the top of the crownshaft and petioles to see if it was loaded with red tomentum and these pics show it isn't.

Is it "really" Hovomantsina" or does the pics not show the tomemtum on the petioles and top crownshaft which all pics Ive seen of Hovo certainly show, maybe it looses it with age ?

Do you have pics of petioles and top of crownshaft of pics 20 , 21 since its much smaller and maybe the tomentum is much more visible ?

All best, keep up the "fantastic threads" Pete

[olivier971]

Pete, i confirm you this is the real Dypsis hovomantsina.

Young D hovomantsina have red tomentum on petioles. I don't have closer pictures but you can imagine it on this picture

Yes, probably they loose it with age

[Pedro 65]

Thanks for the quick reply and pics Oliver, Ive heard there is quite some difference in size and colour of Hovomantsina from Lowland to Highland dry as these pics from RPS show which is the dry highland form.

I must add that Hovomantsina seed from RPS is very very fast to germinate.. 100 % success, so yet another "bright future" to look fwd to...hope all my seedlings are the "highland form"

All best Oliver.

Pete

[olivier971]

Hi Pete

I thing there are not different forms. Just that Dypsis change a lot because of the environnement where they grow. that's all ..

Could you imagine that those pictures show exactly the same species in the same area (Dypsis pilulifera - Andasibe) :

Another example with Dypsis oropedionis at Ambohitantely :

That's ofen why we have so many difficulties to identify species of Dypsis.

And why there are probably so many mistakes on Palmpedia

[Justin]

Very interesting, thank you for sharing. Where in Madagascar were you, and how accessible was the area?

[Pedro 65]

Oliver, you've "been there , done than, and seen it" many times in Madagascar, so i "take note" of all your above comments, thank you. Pete