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Leaning Coconuts

bubba

By bubba
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bubba Grand Master

bubba

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This is a certified leaning Coconut. I am sure many have much better shots than this. Show me yours:

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What you look for is what is looking

PalmatierMeg Grand Master

PalmatierMeg

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Nice. Below are photos of the famous leaning coconut of Matlacha Park - probable legacy of Hurricane Charley in 2004. Photos taken 11/09. I don't know if it survived last horrific winter.

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Trunk detail showing work of yellow-bellied sapsuckers

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

mpiodi Proficient

mpiodi

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This is a certified leaning Coconut. I am sure many have much better shots than this. Show me yours:

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No better shot from me, as mine are all rather straight. But your picture is great! :rolleyes:

Wolfgang Hecht, Kinshasa, République Démocratique du Congo

4°19'54" S, Tropical, dry season June-September, average temperature 22-26°C,

1378mm average rainfall/year

Kumar Veteran

Kumar

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I know a place in Bombay that has 3-4 roystoneas at an angle of 55 deg - i think as a result of some shoddy cable laying. They've curved upwards beautifully. Will photograph the lot when i get back there

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Kumar

Bombay, India

Sea Level | Average Temperature Range 23 - 32 deg. celsius | Annual rainfall 3400.0 mm

Calcutta, India

Sea Level | Average Temperature Range 19 - 33 deg. celsius | Annual rainfall 1600.0 mm

Exotic Life Grand Master

Exotic Life

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Is this your neightbourhood, or well close to you?

Living in a place like that with that kind of palms trees and landscape would be a wet dream for me :mrlooney:

Southwest

rozpalm Mentor

rozpalm

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There is a really cool picture of a leaning coconut over the ocean on pages 4&5 in David Squire's book titled Palms and Cycads.

Ron

Wellington, Florida

Zone 11 in my mind

Zone 10a 9a in reality

13miles West of the Atlantic in Palm Beach County

Daryl Grand Master

Daryl

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Here are a couple of leaning Coconuts I saw in Western Samoa back in 1990...what a paradise!

Daryl

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Gold Coast, Queensland Latitude 28S. Mild, Humid Subtropical climate. Rainfall - not consistent enough!

epicure3 Grand Master

epicure3

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Great pics, Bubba. No Cocos leaners here. Unless, they are leaning up next to the trash bin.

Coastal San Diego, California

Z10b

Dry summer subtropical/Mediterranean

warm summer/mild winter

Daryl Grand Master

Daryl

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Here is my dwarf coconut that tried to lean, but has now straightened up...

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Daryl

Gold Coast, Queensland Latitude 28S. Mild, Humid Subtropical climate. Rainfall - not consistent enough!

Kostas Grand Master

Kostas

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Great photo Buba!!!smilie.gif I got a leaning one too but its only a seedlinglaugh.gif Lets hope it survives here...unsure.gif

Beautyfull photos everybody! Thanks for sharing!

I think Buba's photo is from Fairchild...smilie.gif

''To try,is to risk failure.......To not try,is to guarantee it''

sur4z Grand Master

sur4z

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OK OK...so it's not a coconut but it is a cool leaning sabal.

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The weight of lies will bring you down / And follow you to every town / Cause nothin happens here

That doesn't happen there / So when you run make sure you run / To something and not away from

Cause lies don't need an aero plane / To chase you anywhere

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Kumar Veteran

Kumar

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OK OK...so it's not a coconut but it is a cool leaning sabal.

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Extraordinary! This is clearly the winner.

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Kumar

Bombay, India

Sea Level | Average Temperature Range 23 - 32 deg. celsius | Annual rainfall 3400.0 mm

Calcutta, India

Sea Level | Average Temperature Range 19 - 33 deg. celsius | Annual rainfall 1600.0 mm

tropicbreeze Grand Master

tropicbreeze

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I hadn't thought about leaning coconuts as a decorative feature. When this coconut started leaning and then finally hit bottom I was going to take to it with the chainsaw. Maybe now I'll lift it a little with the tractor and then prop it while it grows some more. Later on I can repeat the process a few times and perhaps end up with an interesting curve in the tree.

It's the coconut at the back almost laying on the ground with the crown already curled upwards.

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Matt in OC Grand Master

Matt in OC

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So, I have a coconut I brought back from Hawaii a few years ago, planted it out last year, it "survived" the winter, but is now leaning considerably. And I wouldn't consider the direction it is leaning as being towards more light or heat. I would think it's dying, but is otherwise pushing growth and a new spear. Here it is a month and a half ago:IMG_1300.thumb.JPG.372c5cb9b5ac4eb55ff225b4cd3ed73255_IMG_13022.thumb.JPG.13c6cfIMG_1304.thumb.JPG.b7e8d73cd55b4fa4e88ae

 

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GottmitAlex Grand Master

GottmitAlex

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5 minutes ago, Matt in OC said:

So, I have a coconut I brought back from Hawaii a few years ago, planted it out last year, it "survived" the winter, but is now leaning considerably. And I wouldn't consider the direction it is leaning as being towards more light or heat. I would think it's dying, but is otherwise pushing growth and a new spear. Here it is a month and a half ago:

 

Here it is now:IMG_1719.thumb.JPG.34d6a9601460011caf6d4

I'd say it is normal. I have three talls myself. The two "larger" (green Pacific) ones have a lean. The youngest one (supermarket-bought, in-house germinated one, Golden Mexican-Pacific)  has not developed a lean, yet.

 

 

5 year high 42.2C/108F (07/06/2018)--5 year low 4.6C/40.3F (1/19/2023)--Lowest recent/current winter: 4.6C/40.3F (1/19/2023)

 

pj_orlando_z9b Mentor

pj_orlando_z9b

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Mine has a lean caused by Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Irma in 2017. 

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