Punta Cana palm seed hunting

[Rickybobby]

First thing in the morning I’m heading with my fam to bevaro beach Punta Cana. From most pics I see a ton of cocos nucifera but iam confident that I will be successful in finding an assortment of palms and hopefully bring some seed home for a palmy souvenir. If I have palm Id questions I will post up for your inputs and help like I did last year in jamiaca. 

Hopefully I will post some nice pics 

Thanks everyone 

[kinzyjr]

Enjoy your trip with the family buddy!

[Rickybobby]

Day one. Got some fresh seeds from this guy!

[Rickybobby]

Name this sabal for me please. It’s growing literally under water I did get a few seeds!

[Rickybobby]

[Rickybobby]

I got some seeds today from this royal

[Rickybobby]

Please I’d this guy. Thought was adonidia but crownshaft seems very short 

[Rickybobby]

My seed collection so far

i had to throw the foxtails out. 

But the Royal Roystonea sabals dypsis ans queens are fresh 

[RaleighNC]

14 hours ago, Rickybobby said:

Name this sabal for me please. It’s growing literally under water I did get a few seeds!



Both Sabal causarium and S. domingensis are native to the Dominican Republic, so those seem like reasonable first guesses, though I have no idea if they can tolerate flooded conditions. You can distinguish those two based on the size of the fruit or seed.  Sabal domingensis has larger seeds.  If you want S. causarium and you have few extra minutes at the Punta Cana airport when you leave, the road heading south from the airport has more than a mile of them planted along the center median (at least I think they are S. causarium).  When we were there my wife was not amused that I ran off to grab some seeds while she went to the check in counter! 

[Fusca]

4 hours ago, Rickybobby said:

My seed collection so far

Those fruits look pretty green still - the Sabals look ripe and maybe one of the Roystoneas.  You'll probably be OK with the Syagrus even with green fruits, but the others I'm not so sure will germinate for you.  Good luck with them.  But you may surprise me - let us know if you succeed!

Jon

[Rickybobby]

Got fresh dypsis lutescens today spent some time cleaning g fruit off. I knew the syragus was not ripe because I yanked them off the tree myself lol we will see how it goes 

at least I will have dypsis again for another souvenir 

[Rickybobby]

7 hours ago, Fusca said:

Those fruits look pretty green still - the Sabals look ripe and maybe one of the Roystoneas.  You'll probably be OK with the Syagrus even with green fruits, but the others I'm not so sure will germinate for you.  Good luck with them.  But you may surprise me - let us know if you succeed!

Jon

There’s slim pickings right now. A lot of palms are flowering but not ready so I’m taking some chances oh well it’s fun and yes my wife yells at me when I jump in the bush to get seeds it’s ok. I don’t mind. 

[Rickybobby]

A couple of only a few hyophorbe here

[Rickybobby]

Quite some roebellinis here but. Not in flower

[Rickybobby]

I gathered a bunch of seeds from these dypsis lutescens as you can see in the grass the seeds are very viable with baby plants everywhere 

[Rickybobby]

On 4/4/2019 at 9:51 AM, RaleighNC said:

Both Sabal causarium and S. domingensis are native to the Dominican Republic, so those seem like reasonable first guesses, though I have no idea if they can tolerate flooded conditions. You can distinguish those two based on the size of the fruit or seed.  Sabal domingensis has larger seeds.  If you want S. causarium and you have few extra minutes at the Punta Cana airport when you leave, the road heading south from the airport has more than a mile of them planted along the center median (at least I think they are S. causarium).  When we were there my wife was not amused that I ran off to grab some seeds while she went to the check in counter! 

Are these the sabals you were talking about? This was the roundabout as you go toward the airport ? Excuse the pic. It was taken from inside the. Bus with tinted windows 

[Ppppppppalm]

于2019年4月4日凌晨2:16,Rickybobby表示:

第一天。从这家伙那里得到了新鲜种子！

Palm ID please