The White Post

January 6, 2014

After seeing Philippe’s recent ’Fifty thousand shades of grey’ post we thought it would be interesting to have a white post but didn’t expect to find as many palms with white on them as we found in our own garden. Like the paint samples in a home improvement store they are not all the same color of white, which is consistent with the way the word ‘white’ is often used in descriptions of palms in books and journals.

The various whites appear on many different parts of palms. In our garden the most frequent appearance of white is the glauca on the new spear. But we also found it on crownshafts, trunks, seeds, and on the underside of leaves.

Most of the pictures were taken using fill flash, so the whites are more brilliant in the photos than they are to the naked eye.

Here are some of the pictures we took yesterday. We have a few more, but will only post them if no one else posts pictures of those palms. So, let’s see your whites!

Mike and Lee

Areca catechu dwdarf .............................Carpentaria acuminata

Bentinkia condapanna .............................Caryota mitis trunk

Cayota mitis variegate ...........................Caryota zebrina

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Clinostigma samonese.............................Cyphophoenix elegans spear

Dypsis cabade ................................Dypsis decaryii

Dypsis leptocheilos

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Dypsis pinnatifrons Dypsis saintelucei

Dypsis sp Dypsis sp

Hydriastele kasesa

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Hydriastele macrospadix ..........................Hyophorbe indica seeds

Hyophorbe lagenicaulis ......................Normanbya normanbya

Pinanga maculata

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Polyandrococos caudescens ...............................Pritchardia

Pritchardia affinis frond ...............................Pritchardia

Rhapis excelsa

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Socratea exhorrhiza .............................Veitchia arecina

Wallichia densiflora dwarf ......................................Wodyetia bifurcate

leaf underside on young plant

"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit." D. Elton Trueblood

January 6, 2014

Wow great pics. As soon as the rain stops in SE QLD I will venture out and add to this post.

January 6, 2014

WOW!

Are all these palms in your garden? I am jealous!

BUT

I must say that the photographer is good

This thread is very instructional too, showing details of so many species,

Thank you Lee and Mike for posting.

January 6, 2014

Wow great pics. As soon as the rain stops in SE QLD I will venture out and add to this post.

Mike and I are looking forward to that...we discovered just how beautiful white can be in our garden today.

Lee

January 6, 2014

WOW!

Are all these palms in your garden? I am jealous!
BUT

I must say that the photographer is good
This thread is very instructional too, showing details of so many species,
We also learned a lot because we had never before looked quite so hard at the beautiful details of the individual palms. We also quizzed ourselves by taking the pictures early this morning but not identifying the palms until a couple hours ago. We are proud that we were able to identify 90% of them without cheating. We did have to look up 10% of them on Rare Palm Seeds to make sure we had the correct species.
Mike was just as good at it as I was which is amazing because he only became interested in palms six months ago. Must have something to do with all of the hole digging he does: he gets to look at them really closely.
Lee

Thank you Lee and Mike for posting.

Philippe, You didn't mention my hair. Do I need Mike to take a picture of that too?

January 6, 2014

Lee,

Not only the photographer is good, your hairdresser too

January 6, 2014

I recall creating a similar thread many years ago, so nice to see the idea is shared and newly created after all this time, great pics, and naturally a great idea

January 6, 2014

Really stunning photographs, and a bonus that the subject matter is palms. A very enjoyable post.

Thanks,

JT

January 7, 2014

Saw this up on a slope at Lyon Arboretum, Oahu, today. Picture dosen't do it justice the leaves are at least

15-20ft long and the new spike is snow white. Might be Dypsis white petiole? Never noticed them before

there has been quite a bit of bush clearing, and there are three that just pop out now. Might be the

same palm that Jeff Marcus has???

aloha

January 7, 2014

Snow white new spike. Didn't have white margins on the leaflet.

January 7, 2014

Dypsis sp "bef"

January 7, 2014

Very nice, i hope to have a collection like this one day! thanks for the great pictures, nice palms!

January 7, 2014

I need sunglasses. The glare hurts my eyes.

January 7, 2014

Very nice, i hope to have a collection like this one day! thanks for the great pictures, nice palms!

this thread was meant for you!

January 8, 2014

From Samarakoon's garden:

January 8, 2014

Lee,

Not only the photographer is good, your hairdresser too

Aloha Philippe, I think you may have forgotten that I started this post after Dean mentioned on the Gray Post that his hair was beginning to match the post. So I said I would have to start a white post to match my hair.......At least there is one person in the family who has hair otherwise I don't know what the post would be.

And in response to your earlier question - Yes, they are all in our garden. But you're not fooling us....we've seen pictures of your garden and know that we are the ones who should be jealous!

January 8, 2014

Snow white new spike. Didn't have white margins on the leaflet.

Colin, Mike and have never seen that palm at Lyon. Must have really been hidden in the brush. We were disapponted with the palm collection at the aboretum. But that could be because of the 165" of annual rainfall at Lyon, 160" fell that day. We may not have seen the palms through the cascade.

We're so busy with our garden we don't get to Oahu much anymore, but the next time we do, it would fun to tour around the various public gardens with youl

Lee

January 8, 2014

I recall creating a similar thread many years ago, so nice to see the idea is shared and newly created after all this time, great pics, and naturally a great idea

Thanks for letting us know about your white post. We're going to dig into the PT vault to see it.

WOW!

Are all these palms in your garden? I am jealous!
BUT

I must say that the photographer is good

This thread is very instructional too, showing details of so many species,

Thank you Lee and Mike for posting.

Lee

January 8, 2014

Thanks, everyone, for all the appreciative comments and posting your own white pictures.

Lee

January 8, 2014

Serenoa repens

January 8, 2014

if this topic doesn't remind us all why we love palms so much, I don't know what will. Beautiful!

January 8, 2014

Dypsis sp "bef"

Steve, Those make me want to run right out and buy two Dypsis sp "bef". They would look so much better at the entrance to our garden than the one's I'm planning to buy there?

Lee

January 8, 2014

if this topic doesn't remind us all why we love palms so much, I don't know what will. Beautiful!

Quite a compliment coming from you!

January 8, 2014

Serenoa repens

Aloha Eric,

I just bought one of these on an impulse purchase without knowing how much they spread. Your picture reminds me why I bought it and made me think of a good spot for it.

Lee

January 8, 2014

Brahea armata as seen at Casa Phippsberger

January 8, 2014

My computer suddenly decided to not let me reply to each of your posts individually so I am forced to reply to your posts as a group.

Keith, I'll bring you a pair of sunglasses in Miami.

Sur4z, Beautiful B. armata. We have a B. clara but the underside of the fronds are not as white as yours so we didn't take a picture of them.

ILoveWhitePalms, Mike gets credit for all the pictures.

Lee

January 8, 2014

Nice post Lee, I could't help myself and have been snapping photos in the garden and of my new haircut in which the 'white' is positively radiant. I'll try and post soon.

Tim