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Photos of Palm trees around the island of Kauai! Also, made a huge effort to correctly identify Pritchardia

kylecawazafla

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I was lucky enough to spend a week island hopping around Hawaii (Big Island, Oahu, and Kauai) and took soooo many photos! I just completed the Kauai section so figured I would share them here! I have a theory that many Pritchardia are mislabeled, which contributes to them being so hard to tell apart!

 

 Click here for the complete album with tree IDs

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Beautiful photos, never been to Hawaii, been to Maldives, Jamaica, Cancun, but not Hawaii lol go figures. How did the cook pines arrive to Hawaii, it still looks cool to see pines in a tropical environment.

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richnorm Grand Master

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Wow, that album is absolutely outstanding! No surprise of course but much appreciated.

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Jonathan Haycock Experienced

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Fantastic photos Kyle, thanks for sharing. The Pritchardia martii is stunning. Love the form of those fronds.

For those of you that frequent Facebook, I’ve set up a group called “Pommy palms”, where many of the palms I’ve seen since emigrating to Australia have been documented. If you wish to be a member, copy and paste “Pommy palms” into Facebook to view the page and click “Join group”.

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Amazing album, Kyle. Every photo is picture book quality! 

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Fantastic photos Kyle and the linked information impressive. Can you imagine incorporating this kind of referencing on PT? There might be something there, A I maybe?

Again, sorry to have missed you on your trip…….and now to wander through my Pritchardia to verify ID’s.

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Wow Kyle! The single best photo documentation of Pritchardia I’ve seen and your photography as usual is impressive. This is the thread Palmtalk didn’t know it needed. 
 

I find with Pritchardia the key is quite clear to be able to distinguish species when mature, it’s just that juvenile specimen can look so similar before they develop their unique traits (lepidia on abaxial surface, leaflet tip droop, inflorescence length, fruit size etc). 
 

Pritchardia is one of my favourite genera and I’ve really got a thing for the silvery ones, so it’s awesome to see arecina, hardyi, flynnii, minor and viscosa all in the same album. Out of interest, do you know if there has been any success producing seeds from these cultivated viscosa? I understand they are critically endangered so it’s great to see mature specimens in cultivation. 
 

Oh and by the way, I’m not sure how it’s possible but that C fulcita possibly upstages the Pritchardia colllection. Amazing!

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@kylecawazafla keep em coming!

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Only the best in Hawaii naturally🌱

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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16 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Only the best in Hawaii naturally🌱

P. martii do well here in California too.

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5 minutes ago, DoomsDave said:

P. martii do well here in California too.

I could imagine. Australia is quite far behind in a lot of species of palms as far as mature plants go. It’s only when you get up to North Queensland where you get fast growth and a lot of exotic species loving the heat and rain in comparison to down south growth rates. 

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18 hours ago, kylecawazafla said:

I was lucky enough to spend a week island hopping around Hawaii (Big Island, Oahu, and Kauai) and took soooo many photos! I just completed the Kauai section so figured I would share them here! I have a theory that many Pritchardia are mislabeled, which contributes to them being so hard to tell apart!

 

 Click here for the complete album with tree IDs

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thanks Kyle
do you remember me? you once sent me seeds, when you were in florida

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Thank you so much everyone, for the compliments. I am working on my Oahu and Big Island photos still. 

I actually made a similar album from McBryde Gardens of many of these same palms 14 years ago (Time flies so quickly 😭) that can be seen here.  The only caveat I have to this album is that I noticed that even some of the palms at McBryde seemed to possibly be mislabeled, so in my most recent album I excluded those ones, however in the album below I just went by their tags. 

Click here for another Pritchardia identification album

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This is really cool to see so much love for loulu!  I love all the photos.  Susan Fawcett who is a researcher at NTBG trying to solve mysteries in the slippery Pritchardia genus.  There is a reason why they are so hard to tell apart!  There are like 20 something species of Pritchardia in Hawaii alone and only 2-3 in other pacific islands.  What the heck?  There are 3 species in west Maui alone growing really close to each other.  Susan has gathered morphology data and samples for DNA testing both in the NTBG's huge collection and in the wild.  There may be some surprises in terms of species counts coming from her work.  There is a great article in the NTBG newsletter about Pritchardia and Susan.  

I was so lucky to visit the research center and meet the new Director of Science and Conservation Tiffany Knight and got to roam the over 900 specimen collection just before you made your trip. The Hawaii Island Palm Society is going to have a 2 day field trip to NTBG in October to geek out over the collection.   Thank you for sharing your photos.

 

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