Phoenix reclinata question

[plantapalm]

I have a few questions about this tree. I am new as most of you  know to my palm addiction and have been exploring parks around town for any uncommon palms that I have never notice before. Well right next to were I grew up I went to a park that I have been to a 100X or more and looked in awh at all the caryota mitis, areca's, phoenix's, sabels, and many others. I took some pictures of different species and came home to my brand new copy of "An Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms" to try an ID some on my own.  And this is my question. In my first picture this I have id as a Phoenix reclinata and actually i think my shot is the same shot from the book, plate 641. So that was a pretty easy 1. But the other shots are of a tree kinda close to these others but all of the trunks seem to have a secondary trunk growing off of it. Is this normal for this tree is this the same tree or is it something completely different. The book said that there were a number of different hybrids growing in florida so is this a maybe a hybrid form?

[quaman58]

They sure look like reclinata to me, the leaves give it away.  As many in this forum can attest, it seems that all Phoenix "intermingle" & it makes for a tough diffinitive ID sometimes. Hard to tell where one species stops and another begins....

Bret

[kakariki]

A beautiful stand of mature reclinatas. What wouldn't I give to get my hands on them? I think that the big trees are old enough that they would probably have come as seed from a fairly pure source, before gardeners interested in exotic species started planting Phoenix relatives from different parts of the world all in close proximity. A few stem-borne suckers on their progeny may indicate a bit of dactylifera sap in their veins, or it may not, as I have seen big old reclinatas do this occasionally.

Regards

Brent

[Kris]

Dear michael  

beautiful stills & terrefic resolution..

thanks & love,

Kris