Canary Island's cultivated plants

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Here's the last group of photos from the Canary Islands

Roystonea "Red Crush"

Plaza de Principe. Ficus nitida (microcarpa?) and Dypsis lutescens

Ravenala

Bamboozled

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Public parks set a standard there

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Tropipalm Nursery... Field grown Bottle's

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Blue Bismarkia?

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Coconuts on a Black Sand Beach

Tall coconut on the left

Los Gigantes

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Coconut in Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Ceiba pentrada are realy nice even without the buttresses

Spathodea

Barrel Cacti

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Veitchia

Public park

Climbing

One of my favorite streets on the island

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Looking up Carlo's property (chamaerops humilis & copernicia gigas on the bottom left)

The Nursery

The breadfruit tree

the breadfruit

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Somewhat stunted coconuts on the northern side

Look at that

Sorry about the picture quality

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During the heatwave... This flashing sign showed this:

0:24 = 12:24 AM in American

38 degrees C = 100 degrees F at 12:24 AM!!

Ombu

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Cool chamaerops

Carlos Simon's great and dense yard on the island of El Hierro

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And his Ananos (Pineapple plantation?)

It looks just like candy

A 4 o'clock coconut in Tamaduste

Can you find it in this picture?

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A parrot, zoom all the way out

Latania lagenicaulis

Acrocomia crispa (?)

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Pondoland Palm

Corypha umbraculifera on its way to becomming huge

Dypsis cabadae

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Forgot what this one was

Check that out, on Sabal... mauritiformis?

Wall of Washingtonia fronds

Copernicia baileyana

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Clusia roots

Variegated Pritchardia

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with the mountains of Anaga in the background

Las Teresitas

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Delonix regia

Cycads

Drago in Santa Cruz

Carlo's property again

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Dypsis lutescens

Maybe a ficus macrophylla var. columnaris?

Church

Dypsis of Spades

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Carlo's property again

Red Howea

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I think that's all the plant-related photos from this summer, hope you liked them

[Tad]

swank pics kyle, looks like you had a once in lifetime op, and took full advantage of it!!

Thank you for sharing those pics!!

that acrocomia is sweet.

Tad

[Carlo Morici]

Thank you Kyle, for sharing all this beautiful pictures. I am still in Sicily on vacations and my internet connection is so slow that I downloaded just a few images of all your postings. I will reply with more details in a week or so, when I will be again in Tenerife.

The unnamed palm "forgot what this one was" is a Desmoncus ortacanthos, at the Palmetum. Also, my "breadfruit" is a jackfruit.

Carlo

[Gbarce]

Kyle- great set of pictures!! very palm specific.

Looks like you had fun on your vacation.

Thanks for sharing.

[epicure3]

Kyle, those are amongst the best palm and tree photos I have come across. Gorgeous. The Canaries really have to be amongst the best places in the world to grow palms. Did you see any cool climate varieties such as rhopalostylis or hedeyscape (sp?)?

Also, I am pretty sure that the breadfruit you refer to is actually a jakfruit. Same family, though.

That triangle palm is the best I have ever seen. It is almost too perfect. Also, any fruiting cocos there or did they all lack fruit?

[Kris]

Dear Kyle  

Lovely tour and the vist to local nursery's and gardens were the best part of your tour coverage !

the dragon blood tree still,bismarkia plantation,the shade house and our friend carlo's property,his jack fruit tree very very nice...

But in my observation i can see that coconuts,plantains do not appear very healthy.performance is preety dim.(meant their grouth) ? is it due to the variety or the soil or the climatic condition..

but i must say that we all did travell along with you so live it was for us_thanks for the tour of a land which grows some of my favouriate plants.

thanks & love,

Kris  

[Toni]

Hello friends. The first week of October I am going to travel to Tenerife, my preferred island of the Canary Islands. I go by one week, almost every year, I rent to a car to ones pirates of Puerto de la Cruz, and I cross the island. Obligatory visits: The Teide and the Palmetum. A greeting to the islanders, to see if we see ourselves someday.

[kylecawazafla]

Que rico. No olvides Parque Garcia Sanabria en Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Para mi, pienso que es lo mas buena ciudad parque en el mundo. Hay muchas palmeras grandes y joven tambien, y arboles tropicales. El unico cosa que no es bueno, es que no hay bastante aparcamiento.

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Epicure, I did come across many cool climate varieties  including a small Juania (just surviving though in Carlo's yard) and I think I remember seeing small Rhopalostylis in some places. I broke my camera about 2 weeks after I arrived, so it had to be sent to Barcelona to be fixed, so I was without it for a month and didn't photograph a lot of what I saw. The "breadfruit" is a jackfruit, my mistake, but there are breadfruits on the island as well.

Many of the coconuts had a lot of fruit, but in the northern part of the island they were mostly small, but in the southern part they were growing perfectly. It's just my opinion, but I would compare the Canary Islands to a non-humid version of Hawaii.

[Walter John]

Great pics, thanks. I think there's more CIDPs in Melbourne and Sydney than the Canary Islands .

[Jeff in St Pete]

Kyle, thanks for posting all those beautiful pictures!

[doranakandawatta]

On 28/8/2007 06:37:52, epicure3 said:

Kyle, those are amongst the best palm and tree photos I have come across. Gorgeous. The Canaries really have to be amongst the best places in the world to grow palms. Did you see any cool climate varieties such as rhopalostylis or hedeyscape (sp?)?

 

Also, I am pretty sure that the breadfruit you refer to is actually a jakfruit. Same family, though.

 

That triangle palm is the best I have ever seen. It is almost too perfect. Also, any fruiting cocos there or did they all lack fruit?

Sadly I ( maybe you too) can't see the pictures anymore...
But I can read : The Canaries really have to be amongst the best places in the world to grow palms.