Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden, Oahu HI

[MattyB]

It was about a 30-40 minute drive from Hawaii Kai, around the south tip of the island and up to the Kailua and Kaneohe area where the Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden is.  It's a huge park that's free to enter.  You can drive through and it's got camping and a visitors center and tons of rare and exotic palms.

The entrance driveway had a whole row of huge Sabal sp. planted there.

We came across a nice Pinanga coronata clump.

[MattyB]

The Pinanga coronata had beautiful roots.

Little did I know, we weren't even inside the park yet.   We'd already been there about a half an hour.  I was taking pictures and running all around.  You drive through with your car so I kept shutting it off and taking pictures.  Then we reached the actuall entrance and that's where we saw the real Pinanga coronata clumps!

[MattyB]

I think this is an Orania sp.  It was very robust and had beautiful thick pendant leaflets w/ a silver hint on the backside.  Any I.D. guesses.

Here's one of it's seeds!  They were huge!

An overall shot of the monster.

[MattyB]

This is one of my new favorite palms.  It was labled Pinanga copelandii.  There's another newer name for it now but I can't remember it.  Those pinangas are great.

Same Pinanga

Areca ipot....very tall.

[MattyB]

And then I saw her.  She shimmered in the misty sunlight and made my heart flutter with anticipation.....oops..got carried away there....

Cyphosperma balanse

[MattyB]

Kentiopsis magnifica in sillouette.

Burretiokentia veillardii and Jen

I look up and see this...

Jen w/ Licuala ramsayii for scale

[MattyB]

This was labled Orania lauderbachiana.  I've got an eye for those Oranias now.  Not cultivated much.  Maybe I'll find one for SoCal yet....

Another palm I've never seen before that really caught my eye was Hydrastele microspadix.

Hydrastele microspadix mature and imature infructescense.

[MattyB]

A look up at one of the many fruting Neoveitchia storckii on the grounds.

The much photographed Kentopsis oliviformis in a beautifully planted sunken bowl.

[MattyB]

Looking up a Clingostigma I think.

Looking up a Neoveitchia I think.

[MattyB]

Little Jenny and Big Corypha.

Looking up into the spiraling Corypha.

Corypha's costapalmate leaf.

[MattyB]

"Hey babe, hold up that Corypha leaf there.....what?...You have a spider in your bra?"

"There we go"  That's only half of the leaf, she's standing on the other half.

[MattyB]

Cyphophoenix nucele crownshaft.

C. nucele leaf.

[MattyB]

photo contest anyone? ::

[MattyB]

Clinostigma sp.

These were a cool plant.  Semecarpus gigantifolia....not a palm.

Another Clinostigma.

[MattyB]

Abundant flowers on Alloschmidtia glabrata.

Pali

Mexican Fan Palm I think. ???  

[MattyB]

Pretty flowers on Deckenia nobilis.

The most flared base award goes to Dypsis lastelliana.

And on our way out I had to grab this familiar picture of Pritchardia hildebrandii Dwarf Blue w/ the pali in the background.

Hope you enjoyed the tour.  I'll see you on the next one.

Aloha.

[Zac in NC]

Wow, Matt. Thats pretty freaking awesome.

Zac

[paulgila]

i can't believe you took yer wife instead of me.

[JD in the OC]

Your first unknown orania is orania palindan.  there is one at Foster's too.  Its a gorgeous orania from the phillippines and supposedly cold tolerant.

That's one rare washingtonia you found!! :)

[Scott]

(MattyB @ Apr. 09 2007,16:41)

QUOTE

photo contest anyone? ::

This has my vote!  I hope you don't mind, but I made it my desk top here at work. Just beautiful!

The base on that Dypsis lastelliana is real exotic looking.

And the "Looking up into the spiraling Corypha" photo - the lighting is very ethereal. Awesome Matt. I knew you'd have some real prize winning photos. Thanks for sharing, Keep it comin'!

[Kris]

Dear Matty  

hey those stills are fentastic ! and let me list the order_

the botanical gargen sign board it reminded me of the

jurassic park movie location..

then the huge sabal very...nice !

then the Licula Ramasji though slender stemed its still

looking nice..

then my most favouriate palm "THE CORYPHA" Sp they are my

dream fan palms.there are many of these types in marutious,

maldives & Seeshyles area.i have seen stills of them but was

aware of its generic name.

the one in your still looks like a TaliPot Palms variety ?

the mexican fan palm_what is this ? i thought the washy's

are called so...am i right.since the fan palm in our picture

looks very new & peculier to me.

thanks buddy for all those lovely stills.and it seems even your wife has taken fancy for tatoos..

here in india goverment officials,workers & even teachers

are banned from using tatoos on their bodies.

and how is uncle dean doing after that heat injury on his foot.do convery my regards to your beloved wife.

Thanks & Love,

Kris  

[Palmy]

Wow! I really enjoyed those pics! I love those mex fan palms!

[RainForestt Robert]

Great photos Matt.  How many seeds made it back to Cali?

[MattyB]

Thanks Guys.  Kris, I was just joking about the Mexican Fan Palm.  It's a Lodociea maldivica - the double coconut....sorry for the confusion...I was just trying to be funny.....

Bob, you can't bring back any seeds because you have to go through multiple agricultural checks at each airport where they make you throw away any plant material including any fruit you brought to munch on.

[osideterry]

MattyB: I bet the airports don't do body cavity searches.

[paulgila]

they usually don't.matt had to INSIST.

[MattyB]

no comment

[osideterry]

I can't look at that Orania seed in post 3 without wincing now.

[paulgila]

he did put gloves on to get it out.

[paulgila]

the kind they use for cattle that go up to your shoulder.

[MattyB]

Gross!  Notice how I edited my nasty comments and inserted "no comment" in it's place.  Thanks for ruining my thread Paul!

[paulgila]

hey,thats what i'm here for

i thought the "no comment" comment was funnier than anything you could've said.

[MattyB]

I've PM'd you.

[MattyB]

Ok, enought jibber jabbering, back to some photos.

Here's a real nice Coco leaf base shot.

Jen doing tha gansta lean w/ Howea belmoreana.

Jen with palm tree.

[MattyB]

Calyptrocalyx sp.

Neoveitchia black crownshaft coloring.

Clinostigma roots are aggressive.

[MattyB]

Another shot up into the Corypha.

Clingostigmas w/ pali in the background.  Eveytime I saw clingostigmas I though they were Euterpe precatoria and got all excited but I couldn't find any.

The friendly spider that was in Jen's bra.

[mike453]

Matty,

The Kentiopsis picture in post #8 is fantastic, it looks like photo contest material to me, but of course I did not vote for the winner last time. All nice pics to me though since all the palms here have to be kept in cages.

                               Mike

Sorry i didn"t know you were posting pic's or I would have waited to reply.

[paulgila]

the corypha is a knock-out! i love the little black teeth!

[Scott]

Oh yeah - that Corypha is sweeet! But the spider - YIKES

[paulgila]

they are tasty with SAUS!!!