Phoenix canariensis in the wild

[Carlo Morici]

All Phoenix lovers will enjoy these three papers, published in "Rincones del Atlántico". Even for those who do not read Spanish, there are many pictures and historical drawings from the Canary Islands. I wrote the last of the three.

Try this link:

http://www.rinconesdelatlantico.com/rincones_arboles.html

And visit these three articles:

- Palmeras Canarias

- Palmeras del paisaje isleño

- La Palmera Canaria: Phoenix canariensis

Rincones del Atlántico is a magazine published in the Canary Islands about Geography, Nature, Traditional Architecture and Agriculture of the Canaries with some articles on the neighbouring archipelagoes of Azores, Cape Verde and Madeira.

Carlo

[wendisplantation]

Thank You Carlo!

very nice of you to post that link....

.....now, where did I put that translating dictionary.....

Just kidding..

Much more fun to read with my limited Spanish, and the weird translating program......

Thanks again Carlo!

p.s.-is this the answer to the pics I sent?

:laugh: LOL :laugh:

[surgeon83]

Thanks for the links, Carlo.  I have read your article before, but I didn't realize you had written it.  Very cool.  I did not know that males and females could be distinguished by the crown.  Also, on the subject of hybridization, you mentioned that canariensis can be crossed with roebelenii but that there is less of a tendency for it to cross with this species than with some of the other Phoenix.  Do you think this is because they flower at different times of the year, or do the crosses fail more frequently even when this variable is removed (by such means as freezing pollen so as to have it available when the other species flowers)?  Just curious.

Here are some canaries my brother recently photographed in the Historic District of my city.

[Kris]

Dear Carlo's & Surgeon  

thanks very much for those beautiful stills of can can's.

love you guys,

Kris  

[Carlo Morici]

Thank you! I do not know why Phoenix canariensis and P.roebellenii do rarely cross. I would love to hear more from those who know.

Flowering time is probably not too relevant. P.canariensis and P.dactylifera here flower at different times of the year, but hybrids do appear because there are always some palms "out of season" and because different existing hybrids flower at different times and can cross back with parent species.

Carlo

[rubyz]

Great Canary pics! This is a palm that always turns me on. IMHO, there can never be too many of these anywhere.