Interesting palms growing in South Florida

[kylecawazafla]

Here are some photos of palms growing in Fairchild and Montgomery!

Corypha taliera at Montgomery! These palms are reduced to a single wild specimen. The reason for their near extinction comes from the locals in the area taking these palms as cursed, since they resemble monocarpic Toddy Palms!

A majestic Syagrus botryophora at Montgomery.

Pholidostachys pulchra at Fairchild

Unknown Copernicia from Cuba growing at Fairchild

[tank]

Unknown looks like C. rigida. Check out the tag next time!

[Jeff Searle]

Unknown looks like C. rigida. Check out the tag next time!

Exactly, it's one of my two favorite Copernicia's.

[kylecawazafla]

I thought they were Copernicia rigidas as well, but the label said that they were unidentified. The petioles seem to be slightly longer than the Copernicia rigidas I have seen though.

[tank]

Kyle,

Just razzing you .

They are also one of my favorite plants.

I saw that grouping at Fairchild last spring and I noticed that some were labeled rigida, while a couple were labeled "unknown", although they appeared to me to be exactly the same to me.

I picked up one for my family's beach house last year and it doing well despite the fact that it's been neglected for the past 8 months during the driest time of the year. I need to replace a few of the less drought tolerant species that are struggling down there with a couple more of these.

[kylecawazafla]

Oh cool! I just assumed they were all the same, so I only checked the label on one of the palms. I rarely venture over into the side of the garden. I usually just stay on the other side, but I had extra time that day. Fairchild has so much more room, but I heard that entire area gets flooded in the hurricanes.

[RyManUtah]

"unknown" are pretty i like them =]

[paulgila]

cool pix,kyle. i didnt see these when you 1st posted em.

[cfkingfish]

I remember those Copernicias and when I was at Fairchild, I asked Carlo about them. Maybe Carlo will come on here, but they are believed to be an Eastern population of C. rigida. They have a lot of color, almost like a C. rigida x cowelli look.