World's largest collection of palms?

[RedRabbit]

What is the largest collection of palms in the world? 

(By largest I mean number of species.) 

[tinman10101]

probably jeff marcus.

[Palms4Steve]

Nong Nooch is huge.

[realarch]

Yeah, I'd have to say Nong Nooch as well.

Tim

[Jeff Searle]

Nong Nooch I would say for sure. Their collection is massive and has cost lots of money to create. Jeff probably has the most impressive private collection hands down.

[edric]

And Jeff Searle of Searle Brothers Nursery Florida, has a pretty large collection too, Ed

[tinman10101]

just wondering .. can anyone speak to the plants at nong nooch?  do they have a lot of rare palms as well?  are they on display or housed in a private area?  i know they have a million of everything.  but i guess just seeing jeff marcus's slideshows, one can see the plethora of extremely rare palms that jeff has. thanks

[Jeff Searle]

6 hours ago, tinman10101 said:

just wondering .. can anyone speak to the plants at nong nooch?  do they have a lot of rare palms as well?  are they on display or housed in a private area?  i know they have a million of everything.  but i guess just seeing jeff marcus's slideshows, one can see the plethora of extremely rare palms that jeff has. thanks

A lot of rare palms as well?? The largest collection of species....ahhhh yea. Nong nooch consist of hundreds of acres. There's literally thousands of palms planted throughout the garden. And in most cases, there can be up to 10,20 maybe 50 of each species. Even the best palm collectors that go there, experience "palm overload" by the end of the first day. It can be exhausting. And over whelming. 

[RedRabbit]

Thanks everyone, it looks like I'll have to plan a trip to Nong Nooch  the next time I'm in Thailand. 

[Palms4Steve]

4 hours ago, RedRabbit said:

Thanks everyone, it looks like I'll have to plan a trip to Nong Nooch  the next time I'm in Thailand. 

It's worth the trip.  We stayed at the accomadation at Nong Nooch.

[User00]

Thai nursery nanaplants  has  nearly 300 species 

[Sir Oxylon]

I am experiencing some of that palm overload exhaustion looking around some very nice gardens in south-east QLD. I don't know whether I would cope with the likes of Hawaii and Nong Nooch. Great post topic.

[Justin]

If you do go to Nong Nooch, I highly recommend the accommodations on the property, as the town of Pattaya isn't the greatest.

[RedRabbit]

11 minutes ago, Justin said:

If you do go to Nong Nooch, I highly recommend the accommodations on the property, as the town of Pattaya isn't the greatest.

You don't think so? I haven't been there yet. It would be nice to just take a day trip from Bangkok, but it looks a little far so I think I'll take your advice and see about staying there. 

[Josh-O]

one can only dream

[foxtail]

Madagascar 

[palmtreesforpleasure]

I think they said they had over 1100 species at the biennial  in Nong  Nooch. You will not see it all in one day, staying at the gardens is the right thing to do. Good accomodation and swimming pools. The RSBG has over 500 species but not all have been planted out yet, a lot will go out this spring

Regards

Colin

[Carlo Morici]

Hello all,

I have recently been updating our lists at the Palmetum in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and we have about 570 palm species, mostly from the islands of the world.

Carlo

[sarasota alex]

With a portion of Nong Nooch's 1,100 species collection not open to the public, Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden with 900 species is possibly the world's largest publicly accessible collection.

[Jeff Searle]

On ‎7‎/‎6‎/‎2016‎ ‎12‎:‎10‎:‎13‎, edric said:

And Jeff Searle of Searle Brothers Nursery Florida, has a pretty large collection too, Ed

Thanks Ed, but I'm small potatoes in comparison to some of these others. NOW....to actually be able to see many palm species in habitat, that's something I can say I've been fortunate to have done over the years and that's really special to me. Recently my travels through Sarawak, Borneo not only "kicked my butt", but really made a lasting impact.