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Wellington Nikau

malcthomas

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More photos from the weekend...they are large files so check them out as 'full size'..

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/28512...100878221hlvBjY

remnant nikau stand at Wakanae, Wellington

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/29440...100878221XIUOYh

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/20322...100878221sjntfP

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/20060...100878221VeAleN

Malcolm

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Tyrone Grand Master

Tyrone

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They're sooooo tall. How old do you think? Thanks for sharing.

regards

Tyrone

Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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Walter John Grand Master

Walter John

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Superb.

Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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Kathy Community Regular

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Beautiful.  Puts the fakies in their rightful place as one can never quite copy nature.

Curious also as to possible age on those tallest.

 San Francisco Bay Area, California

Zone 10a

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Gileno Machado Grand Master

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Magnificent palms...I wish I could grow one of these here.

Sirinhaém beach, 80 Km south of Recife - Brazil

Tropical oceanic climate, latitude 8° S

Temperature extremes: 25 to 31°C

2000 mm average rainfall, dry summers

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LJG Grand Master

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Hey, why is that guy driving on the wrong side of the road in the first pic?

:)

Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

-- Alfred Austin

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WHOA!

Those are glorious!

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Al in Kona Grand Master

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Malcolm - how would you describe the climate where these palms are growing?  Any idea on rainfall and approximate elevation?  Where on the N.Z. map is this located?  Knowing that info it could help us decide whether it would be worth trying to grow them or not in our particular climates.

Hawaii Island (Big Island), leeward coast, 19 degrees N. latitude, south Kona mauka at approx. 380m (1,250 ft.) and about 1.6 km (1-mile) upslope from ocean.

 

No record of a hurricane passing over this island (yet!).  

Summer maximum rainfall - variable averaging 900-1150mm (35-45") - Perfect drainage on black volcanic rocky soil.  

Nice sunsets!

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R. sapida take say 15 years to produce a visable trunk then have say 4 fronds a year.  Ring spacing varies greatly but those look to be very closely ringed and in the region of 10 metres tall.   On that basis maybe they're around a century old.

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Kathy/Tyrone...I would only be guessing but I would put between 100 and 150 years...could well be a lot older than that..

I saw one sometime back that someone had carved their name with the date 1934 into the trunk about 5 foot from the ground...that was considerably smaller than the tall ones pictured.

Al...I will let Ben answer the technical questions on rainfall/temps ...I'm hopeless at that...I did half my schooling in imperial measurements and the other half in metrics... the brain is now in limbo between the two..

The colony photographed is on the west coast - sea level - just north of Wellington (NZ's capital - at the bottom of the North Island)...

From what Ray and the other Floridians say R.sapida does not tolerate high humid heat..R.baureii I would imagine would handle those conditions better especially coastal or higher altitude regions of Hawaii...

thanks for the comments...

kind regards...Malcolm

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