Does anyone of you know a species of palm with such a description?

[qwertz]

On November 1, while driving through a small town over 100 km away from my place of residence, from the passenger seat I noticed something on the left side that had a trunk which was hairy like trunk of Trachycarpus fortunei. I don't remember whether the trunk was slightly narrower in relation to the height than the trunk of Trachycarpus or whether it was of a similar thickness to the trunk of Cyathea cooperi tree fern. If my memory serves me right, the leaves hung down and the trunk with leaves resembled the crown of dwarf weeping willow . The leaves were similar to the leaves of the artificial palm tree in this photo , only they were a quarter longer in relation to their width. I didn't have a chance to take a photo or look closely, so I don't know if the palm tree I saw was real. Does anyone of you know a species of palm tree whose appearance matches the description I provided?

[Las Palmas Norte]

Dicksonia antarctica ?

[kinzyjr]

9 minutes ago, Las Palmas Norte said:

Dicksonia antarctica ?

This would have been my shot in the dark.

@qwertz Do you have a town name and maybe some roads or streets?

[qwertz]

13 hours ago, Las Palmas Norte said:

Dicksonia antarctica ?

The appearance and shape of Dicksonia antarctica leaves is completely different than the artificial palm leaves in this photo. This tree fern also has a different leaf-to-trunk size ratio than the plant I saw.

13 hours ago, kinzyjr said:

This would have been my shot in the dark.

@qwertz Do you have a town name and maybe some roads or streets?

I looked in Google Street View and in Google Maps photos and this plant was not there. A week later I arrived there, walked down the street where I had seen the plant the week before, and it was no longer there.

Edited November 11, 2023 by qwertz

[Las Palmas Norte]

Now you'll never know.

[Jim in Los Altos]

Are you certain that is wasn’t artificial? 

[Kim]

Could it have been a cycad?

[qwertz]

On various websites with an AI image generator, I am trying to generate an image of a plant that I saw, so far I have checked a few websites from above in the Google search results and the ones I checked could not generate a palm tree with a hairy trunk like Trachycarpus fortunei.

11 hours ago, Kim said:

Could it have been a cycad?

Cycads have a leaf arrangement like the Canary date palm, and the plant I saw had only fronds directed downwards, not the same as the fronds of Cycas revoluta and much smaller in relation to the height of the plant. The plant I saw looked more like the palm tree from this photo, except that the trunk was hairy, there were fewer fronds, the fronds were much smaller in relation to the height of the plant and they had a different pattern. The trunk was not crooked and was either slightly tilted backwards or was quite vertical.

Edited November 14, 2023 by qwertz

[Palmfarmer]

13 hours ago, qwertz said:

On various websites with an AI image generator, I am trying to generate an image of a plant that I saw, so far I have checked a few websites from above in the Google search results and the ones I checked could not generate a palm tree with a hairy trunk like Trachycarpus fortunei.

Cycads have a leaf arrangement like the Canary date palm, and the plant I saw had only fronds directed downwards, not the same as the fronds of Cycas revoluta and much smaller in relation to the height of the plant. The plant I saw looked more like the palm tree from this photo, except that the trunk was hairy, there were fewer fronds, the fronds were much smaller in relation to the height of the plant and they had a different pattern. The trunk was not crooked and was either slightly tilted backwards or was quite vertical.

Perhaps a Robilini that still has the boots attached? 

 

[qwertz]

On 11/15/2023 at 6:11 AM, Palmfarmer said:

Perhaps a Robilini that still has the boots attached? 

Not this ratio of the size of the leaves to the size of the trunk, not this appearance of the leaves.