cuba some palm pics

[nomolos]

What great pics

[Peter Pacific]

Hola Oscar!

Great pics, the cubans are some of my favorites. No archives of Gastrococos crispa?

Peter

[edric]

Could someone please tell me if the Roystonea violacea is still in habitat, I have tried to acquire this palm for ten years now, but it's been much easier to acquire Dypsis marojejyi, Ed

[edric]

Could someone please tell me if the Roystonea violacea is still in habitat, I have tried to acquire this palm for ten years now, but it's been much easier to acquire Dypsis marojejyi, Ed

Has anyone seen a real Roystonea violacea? I've been looking for years, for a small one that I could purchase, thanks, Ed

[Takil-Explorer]

I am just back from 6 weeks in Cuba. I have seen many Roystonea violacea along the road from after the Rio Yurumi to La Maquina. They have that beautifull purple trunk. And I got some seeds.

That eastern point of Cuba is probably the place where Roystonea evolved. About 4 species are found only there!

Alexander

[Takil-Explorer]

For those whom want to see Copernicia cowellii in habitad, take the road from Camaguey to Albaisa and go left there. That road leds to de Sierra de Cubitas. Just south of that sierra is an large part of open savanna on serpentine rock. You can see there plenty Copernicia cowelli, C. hospita and several Cocotrinax species. A very strange habitad it is!

But the sierra itself consist of another type of rock with dense vegetation.

Alexander