PSSC meeting and SoCal PRAs

[iwan]

My wife and I spent a few days down in San Diego to attend the PSSC meeting, see palms, and just hang out.  While I was checking out the gardens and socializing, my wife (the real photographer in the family) snapped pictures (not necessarily of palms).

I love these.  They look like rows of little birds.

[iwan]

These look kind of like cashews.

And a wide view.

[iwan]

Matt's seedlings playing around the pond.  Matt, if you want full resolution pictures PM me (there are a few more in the album).

Staghorn ferns, palms and cycads in a cool arbor.

Walkway

[iwan]

Saturday was finished off at the Sushi bar with Paul and MattyB.

On Sunday Paul hauled us over to the Catamaran for an afternoon of PRA.

Sabal (mauritiiformis?), forgot the ID on this one.

A bit closer

Brahea pimo w/inflorescence (yet another Brahea I don't have)

[iwan]

Phoenix paludosa

Ravenea rivularis (?) with freeze (?) damage

They seem to be recovering

[iwan]

Yum!  I love this shot and the way they cut the leaf bases.

Rhopalostylis in flower and fruit

Dracena draco w/infructescence

[ariscott]

Very nice pics of African tulip tree flowers (Spathodea campanulata). Your wife has good eyes

Regards, Ari

[MattyB]

Nice pics Robert.  Those Ravenea rivularis at the catamaran always look like that.  It's not freeze damage it's from not enough water.  Although they're in a lawn area that's maintained they probably never get a deep watering during the warm months.  It was nice to meet you and have sushi that night.

[paulgila]

sylvia is really a great photographer.i like how the 1st posts show the real close up but you can't really tell what it is & then you see the whole flower!

those last pix look familiar--seems like i was almost there

[iwan]

I regret not getting food pics to make this an official PRA thread but, oh well Sushi and lunch Sunday at that Asian place were great anyway.  Sylvia was surprised that the macro shots even came out since it was breezy and she didn't bring a tripod (not that it would have made a difference when the subject moves).

Thanks for the cause on the ratty looking R. rivularis Matt.

Will post the rest of the Catamaran tonight.

[iwan]

Queens, robust vs fine leaf

Closer view

Black swan

[iwan]

And what would a PRA be without Paul goofing off a bit...

Phoenix roebelenii multi-branching

[iwan]

Largest Jubaeopsis caffra I have ever seen

Base

Raphia ruffia and another branching Phoenix roebelenii

A better picture w/o the Phoenix

[kylecawazafla]

Wow great photos! That Phoenix paludosa is incredible! I didn't know they looked like that

[kylecawazafla]

wow iwan! Keep the pictures coming! That Raphia is incredible as well! Have any idea on how tall it is?

[iwan]

Infructescence (I think this was Ravenea rivularis).

More cool leaf bases on Butia

Not being content with branching Phoenix it appears they have recently added a two headed Livistona.

Finally (from the Catamaran).  Epyphitic GBOP

[iwan]

(kylecawazafla @ Oct. 10 2007,22:07)

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wow iwan! Keep the pictures coming! That Raphia is incredible as well! Have any idea on how tall it is?

Kyle,  I didn't pay much attention at the time, but it seems like it was ~5' to the growth point, so I would guess 15'+ to the tip of the tallest frond.

[MattyB]

Yeah, I agree Kyle, that Raphia is a show stopper.  It's so orange and big.

[paulgila]

dennis wiloughby whose garden bob & i toured in point loma said he planted that raphia.

[iwan]

Monday it was off for the obligitory Balboa Park visit.  No matter what, I always have to visit when in SD.  With all the recent BP threads, it is hard to find some unique pictures, but here goes...

Archontophoenix with damaged trunk in front of the International House area.

Top view

Leaning palm correcting itself

[iwan]

Livistona (decora?) in palm canyon

Starting to self clean.  Nice color on trunk.  Reminds me of L. rotundifolia

Old boots separating

[LJG]

(pohonkelapa @ Oct. 11 2007,09:56)

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dennis wiloughby whose garden bob & i toured in point loma said he planted that raphia.

Wow. Kind of like 6 degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon type deal.

[iwan]

Leaning crown syndrome?  

Shows better from the road.

A royal carpet (Archontophoenix grass).  Looks like someone took a weed wacker to them.  

If you don't like green, there is always the red carpet.  All those seeds going to waste.

[iwan]

Bizmarkia

Just can't get enough of these.  Monday was also palm shopping day.  Picked up several new additions to my collection.

[iwan]

Tuesday we headed back north making a stop at Nickel Palm Nursery in Shafter, CA (near Bakersfield in the San Joaquin Valley) to buy some more palms and snap pictures of the nearby Bismarkias that pretty much just laughed at the freeze this year.  These guys reportedly got down to at least 18F based on the temps measured at the nursery >1 mile away.

Shows damage on the oldest fronds

Sibling

Another view.  Very nice garden for the middle of nowhere.

[paulgila]

its always cool to see pix of hose bizzies in balboa park,

they just keep getting bigger & bigger & bigger &.........

[BS Man about Palms]

Are there two Raphia's at the Cat. ??

Maybe the one I remembered grew ALOT!