Multiheaded Palms - Unbelievable

[Wanderanwills]

I was just going through some old photos and come across a photo I took in Queensland of a Phoenix roebelenii with numerous heads.

It is quite amazing.

If you have photos of multihead palms, please add them to the post.

Regards

Stephen

[www.dadluvsu.com]

I did an old thread back in the day with some cool mutants...

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=4131&view=findpost&p=68465

PREPARE YOURSELF!!!

Haven't seen any new ones lately to add... I'd love to see some new finds!

[Rafael]

I do not find these things amazing.

These are mother nature's mistakes, sometimes with some kind of beauty.

But anyway...

[palmtreesforpleasure]

Hello wanderanwills

these pictures taken on a top end rat pack tour

Hydriastele costata as a result of multiple cyclone and fire damage.

and it was hot , ground temp about 50c. burnt our fingers touching the ground

regards

colin

[JayW]

I can't remember where I found this Sabal Palmetto pic... but here it is...

[JayW]

Here's 1 more pic of it...

[tropicbreeze]

A Hydriastele ramsayi I found nearly 4 years ago. Counted up 7 heads, but closer look it's 2 plants. One has 5 heads and the other 2. I should go back and try to relocate it, see how it's grown.

[palmtreesforpleasure]

Whoops, sorry

correction of my post

meant to say Hydriastele ramsayi, the pictures are ramsayi, that is ram-say-i. say cos TATA to the previous name i put into my previous post.

[Wanderanwills]

I did an old thread back in the day with some cool mutants...

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=4131&view=findpost&p=68465

PREPARE YOURSELF!!!

Haven't seen any new ones lately to add... I'd love to see some new finds!

Hi Pious Palms,

Great link, I can honestly say that I have never seen anything like the Borassus flabellifer Distichous leaf form, that is really something different.

Also spiral coconuts, that is wild....

Thanks for posting them

Regards

Stephen

[Jono Miller]

I can't remember where I found this Sabal Palmetto pic... but here it is...

Wow. It would be great if you could remember. Did you take the photo or how did you get it. I'm attaching a 1917 photo of a similar cabbage palm taken by John Kunkel Small. Notes say he took it in a hammock near an abandoned Indian Mission.

Here's the source

http://ibistro.dos.state.fl.us/uhtbin/cgisirsi/EnmsErYutA/STA-FLA/235020219/9

And here's an outline of cabbage palm anomalies (known and theoretical). I have examples of many, but not all. If you (or anyone) know of cabbage palm anomalies, I'm interested in photos, locations, etc.

Sabal Palm Anomalies

Multiple heads

Twins

Triples

Heathcote Botanical Garden

Quadruple

Palm on water in Stuart

Fasciated (Small's term)

Phyllotaxy

Distichous

Aligned

Head Distortions

Whisk Broom

Torsion

Variegation

Trunk Distortions

Contortions

Helical

Wandering

Lucky, Horseshoe Palm

Constrictions

Root Distortions

Adventitious Roots above soil level

Roots growing in constrained situations

Containers

Shallow soil over rock

Combinations

Strangler plants on palms

Figs

Oaks

Schefflera

Sabals growing in odd places

Out of other trees

Kissing Tree in St. Augustine

Odd situations

Sabals supported by other trees

[Xenon]

Amazing photos! :drool:

Thanks for sharing!

Jonathan

[DoomsDave]

Well, doink!