Palms in Alicante, Elche, Valencia

[Stelios]

I went with my family for a few days to Spain for holidays and with the help of @Alicante with his useful tips I took some nice photos with palms.

Some photos in Alicante

Foxtail

Beautiful Kentias, Livistonas and Sabals

Well grown queens can look very beautiful.

Big ficus with palms

Bonus photo: Pandanus

 

[Stelios]

Huerto del cura jardin artistico in Elche: A lot of palms here. The quality of the photos is not the best cause suddenly the rain started and I was trying to protect the phone. Here is just a few.

Arenga engleri

Raphis excelsa

Phoenix reclinata

Chamaedorea tepejilote

Phoenix rupicola

Phoenix roebelenii x reclinata hybrid. I really like this one.

Pritchardia hillebrandii

Sabal Maritima

[Stelios]

Sabal mauritiiformis is such an amazing palm

Sabal rosei

Foxtail

Brahea nitida

Brahea brandegeei

Acoelorrhaphe wrightii

Parajubaea torallyi torallyi

Sabal yapa

Bismarckia

The Imperial palm tree. Amazing!!!

 

[Stelios]

Palmeral de Elche

[Stelios]

Valencia zoo had some nice palms too. These are a couple of my favorites:

Some big Bismarckias

This is my favorite from all. This Ravenea almost looks like coconut to me.

[Alicante]

@Phoenikakias Check this, you'll like it! 

2 hours ago, Stelios said:

Valencia zoo had some nice palms too. These are a couple of my favorites:

Some big Bismarckias

This is my favorite from all. This Ravenea almost looks like coconut to me.

@ego Look at the 90% coconut lookalike that Ravenea is! Remember the conversation we had some weeks ago? If the palm becomes big (tall) the trunk is not thick exceptuating the bottom. What a beauty! 

[kinzyjr]

Some really nice stuff!  Thanks for sharing!

[Than]

7 hours ago, Alicante said:

@Phoenikakias Check this, you'll like it! 

@ego Look at the 90% coconut lookalike that Ravenea is! Remember the conversation we had some weeks ago? If the palm becomes big (tall) the trunk is not thick exceptuating the bottom. What a beauty! 

True. How fast does it grow though?

[Alicante]

6 hours ago, ego said:

True. How fast does it grow though?

I don't know exactly as I don't own any Ravenea. But I guesstimate it has a medium growth speed, based on how Bismarckias and Washingtonias grow here for example (very fast) this one grows nowhere as fast as these, but somewhere under the fast growing palms and faster than the slow ones. This is my conclusion after "studying" some publicly planted ones from 2007-2008 to nowadays. I also have an older pic of this same Ravenea (I'm not sure about the date) but the palm was considerably smaller compared to nowadays!

According to their official site, this pic was posted in 2017 but the difference seems too huge for just 5 years. https://www.bioparcvalencia.es/animales/especies-vegetales/



This is the pic Stelios made now on April 2022, as you can see the palm is much, much bigger as in the pic from above. Did it really grow that much in just 5 years? 



PS: And once again, this Ravenea (as well as many other species) is overtrimmed. Something very common that happens everywhere in Spain, including the Canary Islands.

[Stelios]

1 hour ago, Alicante said:

I don't know exactly as I don't own any Ravenea. But I guesstimate it has a medium growth speed, based on how Bismarckias and Washingtonias grow here for example (very fast) this one grows nowhere as fast as these, but somewhere under the fast growing palms and faster than the slow ones. This is my conclusion after "studying" some publicly planted ones from 2007-2008 to nowadays. I also have an older pic of this same Ravenea (I'm not sure about the date) but the palm was considerably smaller compared to nowadays!

According to their official site, this pic was posted in 2017 but the difference seems too huge for just 5 years. https://www.bioparcvalencia.es/animales/especies-vegetales/



This is the pic Stelios made now on April 2022, as you can see the palm is much, much bigger as in the pic from above. Did it really grow that much in just 5 years? 



PS: And once again, this Ravenea (as well as many other species) is overtrimmed. Something very common that happens everywhere in Spain, including the Canary Islands.

I agree.  It's overtrimmed. With more full crown this ravenea will be ever more stunning. Sometimes these palms we consider as common can be as beautiful as the more rare ones.

[ChristianStAug]

Lovely photos. I was super impressed myself with the palms along the Costa de Sol area (Malaga). Not sure if that area technically expands east enough to include Elche. Anyways, If you can get enough water then many species are possible in this warm edge of Europe. I agree with others here- many are over-trimmed, but they don’t seem otherwise effected negatively in your photos.