Palms of Ambodiriana reserve - Madagascar

[doranakandawatta]

I think I don't like Dypsis!

Many Merci Olivier for this exceptional thread!

[PalmatierMeg]

Your photos are so wonderful I wanted every palm! Thank you.

[colin Peters]

Once again thank you for the amazing, clear pictures. Got to be some of the best habitat pictures

I have ever seen. Is that a new reddish-purple leaf on the Dypsis linearis? It has a pinanga look to

it. I have to agree with KIm that lastelliana is crazy tall.

aloha

[olivier971]

Is that a new reddish-purple leaf on the Dypsis linearis?

Yes it is, quite a little

[Mandrew968]

Is that a new reddish-purple leaf on the Dypsis linearis?

Yes it is, quite a little

What a great little palm!

[olivier971]

I just found on the web that there are a palm called Dypsis sp. Manompana : http://d30000260.purehost.com/dypsis_sp__manompana.html, but no pictures of it.

Manompana is exactly the place where the Ambodiriana reserve is located.

So is there anybody that have ever heard about this Dypsis sp. Manompana, because we probably saw it and we would maybe be able to try to identify it if possible.

Thanks a lot for all your information about it.

[Pedro 65]

Oliver, I saw this thread when you 1st posted it, "great stuff", now Ive view it many times and a Question I'd like to hear an answer v soon about is about Dypsis tsaravoasira, it looks just like D Pilulifera, now if that "IS" Tsaravoasira , the pic in POM of Tsara "has to be" ( 100%) Ampasindavae..do you agree ? Thanks for sharing your "fun travels" Pete

[Sabal Steve]

Thumbs up! That's hands down the tallest Dypsis lastelliana that I've ever seen. Must be many decades old, if not more...

[olivier971]

Oliver, I saw this thread when you 1st posted it, "great stuff", now Ive view it many times and a Question I'd like to hear an answer v soon about is about Dypsis tsaravoasira, it looks just like D Pilulifera, now if that "IS" Tsaravoasira , the pic in POM of Tsara "has to be" ( 100%) Ampasindavae..do you agree ? Thanks for sharing your "fun travels" Pete

Hi,

Sure it is D tsaravoasira because of it's very regular leaflets and its crownshaft wich stay green. The local guides were also sure it was D tsaravoasira.

At the opposite, D pilulifera has irregular or grouped leaflets and a crownshaft becoming grey or brown.

Here D pilulifera at Andasibe :

Also, Ambodiriana is exactly in the area of D tsaravoasira in lowlands near the sea level. D pilulifera lives in highlands (more than 800 m alt.)

So i don't know about the picture of POM. We don't see it quite well

[olivier971]

now if that "IS" Tsaravoasira , the pic in POM of Tsara "has to be" ( 100%) Ampasindavae..do you agree ?

Also, be careful of the very very big differences of palms when they grow in shade or in full sun (as you can see in my previous post with D pilulifera)

[NApalm]

Awesome

[olivier971]

Some news suite of our trip to Madagascar in October 2013 ....

Indeed , following our visit to the Ambodiriana forest reserve, we established a partnership with the Association ADEFA ( http://www.adefa-madagascar.org/ ) which manages the reserve. In this context , we conducted a mission report containing an inventory and offering a series of recommendations . We also conducted a field manual for guides reserve to help them identify palms on site. This manual has been published in multiple copies in plastic version field.

Report and field manuals were given to the ADEFA at their general meeting during which we made a presentation of this work .

Based on our recommendations, further observations will be carried out by the guides of the reserve according to a protocol that we have established , in an attempt to clarify or confirm some of the identifications. Finally, a trainee will soon be on site for a period of two months to complete the work we have undertaken .

You can find these documents for information (sorry but in French only), download the following addresses:

http://www.palmeraie-union.com/pdf/ambodiriana.pdf

and

http://www.palmeraie-union.com/pdf/guide2013.pdf

[realarch]

Thank you Oliver, the information is invaluable. So nice to have many photos of a particular species in habitat giving different stages of growth. Your field manuals are a positive undertaking.

Tim