Some palms from the coastal plane of Paraná - South Brazil

[Alberto]

I took two weeks of my vacation and went with family to the beach in Guaratuba -state Paraná. The climate there at sea level is a humid subtropical and frost free. The vegetation of the Atlantic forest is luxuriant with many big trees, covered with aroids,bromeliads,orchids, ferns,lianas,etc.... There also grow some palms ,from emergent to palms that grows in the shade of the forest. There are several mounts (VERY old flatened mountains) and the coastal plane between them .Here you can see first the Morro (mount) do Cristo and 2nd Caieiras mount. 3rd Cristo mount where you see only somewhat stunted queens and 4th vieuw from the Cristo mount to the beach

[Alberto]

Scrub vegetatin consisting of a mat of Dyckia sp and stunted queen growing on a few centimeters of soil.

Mature Euterpe edulis (palmito-juçara or juçara) are somewhat rare in the forests (because of ilegal palm heart harvesting in the past) but cultivated ones you can see everywhere. (More to come)

[Alberto]

I climbed the Morro da Caieira and found several palms: 1-1-Two juvenile Euterpe edulis with "flat fronds"

2-Geonoma gamiova ("gamiova")

[Alberto]

1- Euterpe edulis seedling and a ground bromeliad (Neoregelia sp or nidularium sp ?)

2 Astrocaryum aculeatissimum ("brejaúva") it´s difficult to capture de beauty of this palm with its long fronds with silvery backs and the slender spiny trunks)

3- A brejaúva photographed with flash

[Alberto]

1-Young brejaúvas and Geonoma gamiova

2-Brejaúvas

3-

[Alberto]

Trunks of the brejaúva- the species name "aculeatissimum" (very spiny) is very apropriate !

[Alberto]

1- I found a little Bactris setosa ('tucum")

2- Some Attalea dubia ("indaiá") growing on the top of the mount.

[Alberto]

1 Beautifull attalea dubia (indaiá) growing in the open

2- Syagrus romanzoffiana ("jerivá") with very long fronds growing in better soil.

[Alberto]

For you that are new here on Palmtalk and want to know....Some palms of the Atlantic plane of the st. Paraná in Southern Brazil