what are the most famous palms on the forum ?

[BS Man about Palms]

I ate another one of my "famous palms" the other day

[Kumar]

Kumar,

A town like Bombay should have plenty Corypha umbraculifera in parks. Neither did I see it in botanical gardens in India like the ones in Calcutta and Pondicherry. Well offcourse some people in India grow it, but only a few it seems. Gardening in general seems to be less populair in India then in a country like Thailand. In Thailand people grow a lot of lotuses, in India none. While its the national flower!

Well gardeining is a hobby of mine so then you notice those differences in countries.

Have not seen a single one. In Rio de Janeiro they have planted them however, seen it there for the first time in flower.

Alexander

Alexander, you are quite right in your observation; Bombay should certainly have more Corypha. I suspect the cause of the near-total absence is the slow growth rate and immense size of the genus. In a packed city like Bombay (or any other metropolitan area in India), nobody has the patience to indulgence these giants. Even Phoenix sylvestris and Borassus flabelliber numbers are dwindling. Coconuts and royals are the only large palms that are being planted.

Nonetheless, corypha can be seen at the Victoria Gardens in Bombay and in the Borivili National Park.

[pogobob]

I ate another one of my "famous palms" the other day

It was goood

[Moose]

Hmm.

That's a tough one.

I don't know if there's one most famous, but certainly a top 10 in no particular order:

1. Newport Beach Coconut
2. Pauleen's Dypsis decipiens
3. Pauleen's trio of Hedyscepe
4. The mass of Copies at Fairchild
5. Bo's Orange Crush Forest
6. Ken's Big-A'd Borassus at his ranch
7. The Jubaeaopsis at Hyatt Newporter
8. The Mule at the Huntington
9. The Hoopers' R. oleracea, when it was at the Hoopers' place.
10. Triode's Dypsis 'Black Stem

These are palms that are just gabbled about, babbled over, and used again and again as examples of penultimate palm pulchritude by myself and others. They all have one thing in common: they are singular, and amazing, and your brain just keeps popping them back into your consciousness, again and again, even when you're trying to think of, say, petunias, horses or the cranky hanging judge.

So, I come up with 9. I'm sure there are more.

To that I would add the last Hyophorbe amaricaulis

[Ken Johnson]

I would say the Tahina in habitat and the one in my avatar....

[Pete in Paradise Hills]

If i had time to road trip for one palm in SoCal it would be the Ventura Ceroxylon Ventricosum.