Attack of the Mutant Palm Trees!!!!

[www.dadluvsu.com]

Ok...  Who's got photos of palm mutations...  I was riding my bicycle through the neighborhood last night and spotted a double headed Sable Palm...   Made me think of the picture I took of the 3 headed Bottle at Montgomery...

Anyone have some good mutant pictures they can post?!?!?!!

I'll get a pic of that Sable tonight.

[Kom Thai Palm]

Borassus flabellifer Distichous leaf form

[Carlo Morici]

(redvdox @ Feb. 27 2007,13:10)

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Borassus flabellifer Distichous leaf form

      :o       :o      

[Carlo Morici]

Here is a link to a page of palm oddities in Tenerife.

http://www.inicia.es/de/ea8ck/Odities.html

The page is old and the branched livistona seems not clickable anymore. The variegated Pritchardia is still growing slowly in the ground in the Palmetum, about 1 m tall.

Carlo

[Licuala]

Here's a Sabal palmetto from Heathcoat Botanical Garden in Florida

pablo

[SubTropicRay]

Weird stuff.

[Exotic Life]

Oke that's strange but fantastic

Robbin

[www.dadluvsu.com]

DOUBLE HEADED MONSTER!!!!

[weldertom]

(redvdox @ Feb. 27 2007,08:10)

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Borassus flabellifer Distichous leaf form

I cannot get my mind around that .

It looks like something from a George Lucas movie .

WOW

[Coloradoboi]

What about the spiral cocos?

Look closely

[Morabeza]

Komkrit, WOW!

[www.dadluvsu.com]

Sweet Spiral Coconuts!!!  I've seen some of these up close and personal a couple years back and completely forgot they do that!  Good one!

[garrin]

Downtown Hilo,HI, had a spiral trunk coconut near the waterfront and the Wailuku River, but the parks dept or someone decided it was odd and therefore must be chopped down!  What a loss!

[www.dadluvsu.com]

What a shame!   Welcome to PalmTalk garrin!

[OldNed]

One of many (30+) branched King Palms at Helga's Nursery-Julatten, Queensland

[Jimbean]

I have to see if I can get a picture of a multiheaded queen palm I saw a couple of blocks away from me.

[richnorm]

I just had a Hedyscepe seed throw up two shoots.  I wonder what it will end up looking like.

[Al in Kona]

Here's a spiral trunk Coconut growing in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii Island.  Although I had posted this pic some time ago in another thread, I thought it worthy of showing it again.

[Al in Kona]

Here's a Coccothrinax boschiana in habitat in the Dominican Republic.  Notice how the trunk arches way over then grows out horizontally with minimal leaves.  Must be a super old tree.

[www.dadluvsu.com]

VERY COOL AL!  I have got to get one of those Cocco's!

[www.dadluvsu.com]

Distichous Bizzie Lady

[Gbarce]

I wonder if the seeds from those disticous fan palms produce the same kind of offspring? Hmmmm

[plantapalm]

Here is a picture someone gave me, of a 4 Headed Sabel with a twist. I am trying to get a visit arranged to snap a few more pics. It is located in Stuart FL.

[DoomsDave]

Here's a spiral trunk Coconut growing in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii Island.  Although I had posted this pic some time ago in another thread, I thought it worthy of showing it again.

Washies sometimes do that, too.

There are (or were) some at LA Arboretum in Arcadia that did that.

[Dan OKeeffe]

richnorm,

Can you please upload a pic f yur hedyscepe?

Thanks

Dan

[surgeon83]

I wonder if the seeds from those disticous fan palms produce the same kind of offspring? Hmmmm

I was just wondering the same thing... the borassus towards the top is probably the most awesome palm picture I have ever seen, and now there's a bizzie doing the same thing, in FL! That is so cool, I wonder how often that happens and if it is apparent at an earlier stage (presumably yes).

[sur4z]

check out the million dollar coco!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7358713.stm

[Matthew92]

At Kanapaha Gardenes in Gainesville, there was a 5 trunked Sabal palmetto. Although apparently in hurricane Frances, 4 of the trunks broke off, and the remaining one is kind of damaged at the base, though still looking healthy.