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What's the problem with this photo?

tropicbreeze
tropicbreeze
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Photo taken Central Australia, Alice Springs Wildlife Park

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It's Washingtonia???

Looks pretty awful, whatever it is, poor thing.

South Arm, Tasmania, Australia - 42° South

Mild oceanic climate, with coastal exposure.

 

Summer: 12°C (53°F) average min, to 21°C (70°F) average daily max. Up to 40°C (104°F max) rarely.

 

Winter: 6°C (43°F) average min, to 13°C (55°F) average daily max. Down to 0°C (32°F) occasionally, some light frost.

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That's what I thought. Yet the interps sign below says Red Cabbage Palm, Livistona mariae ssp. mariae.

I believe its a Mariae, though it is so dried up it could be something else. Washingtonia generally don't lose leaf bases up near the bud before down low like that. Mariae is a prettier palm than a washie robusta, but that palm looks like it has been tortured.

Formerly in Gilbert AZ, zone 9a/9b. Now in Palmetto, Florida Zone 9b/10a??

 

Tom Blank

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    Washies have split leaf bases. You can see by the trunk scars that this palm does not. I agree that it's L. Mariae and is having a bad hair day.

    "it's not dead it's sleeping"

    Santee ca, zone10a/9b

    18 miles from the ocean

    avg. winter 68/40.avg summer 88/64.records 113/25

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    Agree looks like L mariae to me. I was going to say re what’s wrong that there’s a dead stump of another in the back right so it looks like this group isn’t healthy and the one in focus might be the on the way out too.

    Tim Brisbane

    Patterson Lakes, bayside Melbourne, Australia

    Rarely Frost

    2005 Minimum: 2.6C,  Maximum: 44C

    2005 Average: 17.2C, warmest on record.
    14 hours ago, Jonathan said:

    It's Washingtonia???

    Looks pretty awful, whatever it is, poor thing.

    Zoom in. Looks like a Livistona.

    Is there a long dry season there?
    22 hours ago, SeanK said:

    Zoom in. Looks like a Livistona.

    Is there a long dry season there?

    Yep, I think that's settled...ID not my strength, but I blame @tropicbreeze for misleading the court your honour!

    Central Aus is basically one long dry season, with infrequent summer storms. Alice Springs has around 285mm average rainfall, so the L mariae at Palm Valley seem to only survive by tapping ground water along the Finke River drainage channels.

    South Arm, Tasmania, Australia - 42° South

    Mild oceanic climate, with coastal exposure.

     

    Summer: 12°C (53°F) average min, to 21°C (70°F) average daily max. Up to 40°C (104°F max) rarely.

     

    Winter: 6°C (43°F) average min, to 13°C (55°F) average daily max. Down to 0°C (32°F) occasionally, some light frost.

    Good old Alice Springs has a pretty good wildlife, and we are not talking about the wildlife centre either. They are pretty wild in the Alice!

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