Serra do Cipó

[Davi Aguiar]

I went to Serra do Cipó with my father yesterday, during the Brazilian Independence holiday, and I took some pictures of palms there!

The most common palm in the area we went was syagrus duardei or glaucens, (could be wrong, I am not good at identifying palms).

So I could find these two seemingly cultivated ones which could be hybrids:

Those in the wild were a lot shorter:

There was some of these syagrus which I could not identify:

There were also allagoptera:

There were also these geonoma which I could not identify, as well:

I recommend that those of  you who happen to come to Belo Horizonte take a trip to Serra do Cipó, which is about 100km away from the city. Even a one day trip is worth it.

[Mandrew968]

Excellent!! Those blue rock coconut palms are insane!  I wish I had some. Hard to believe the cultivated palms are the same...

The unkown Syagrus could be flexuosa...

[Pal Meir]

  On 9/8/2016 at 11:50 AM, Mandrew968 said:

Excellent!! Those blue rock coconut palms are insane!  I wish I had some. Hard to believe the cultivated palms are the same...

The unkown Syagrus could be flexuosa...

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… or S pleioclada?

[Pal Meir]

And the Geonoma looks to me like G schottiana …

[Pal Meir]

… and the Allagoptera is most likely A campestris.

[User00]

nice pics 

[caixeta]

  On 9/8/2016 at 12:11 PM, Pal Meir said:

... Ou S pleioclada ?

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OK Syagrus pleioclada, very exotic.

[Monòver]

I love habitat pictures.

Thanks!!!

[edbrown_III]

I love this place I have been there 3 times over the years --- I am going back in November ---- there are S. pleiocada and S. duartei ---- I saw S. flexuosa in vicinity at Datas and S. glaucescns near Diamintina and lots of Butia archeri --- fantastic place I hope to travel on to Bahia and see more Syagrus -- thanks for sharing

 

[edbrown_III]

there is a species of Geonoma there also --- I think it is G. schotti 

[doranakandawatta]

  On 9/8/2016 at 3:52 PM, Monòver said:

I love habitat pictures.

Thanks!!!

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Me too,

First these are wonderful pictures, second, we can learn so much when seeing the real habitat of palm species.
For example: who is planting Lodoicea in his garden, making a wild grove, mixed with Verschaffeltia and others like what one can admire in Vallée de Mai?

Search engine: Vallée de Mai.

[Davi Aguiar]

Thank you all for you comments!

I also thought those were Geonoma schottiana , but other schottianas I had seen before were singles, those are clustering. Could be just an habit displayed by this population.

And beside the palms the place is also very beautiful:

 

[PalmTreeDude]

I love seeing native / wild growing palms in fields, it gives any place a tropical feel!

[edbrown_III]

  On 9/8/2016 at 8:46 PM, Davi Aguiar said:

Thank you all for you comments!

I also thought those were Geonoma schottiana , but other schottianas I had seen before were singles, those are clustering. Could be just an habit displayed by this population.

And beside the palms the place is also very beautiful:

 

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[edbrown_III]

I love these photos I am traveling there for a few weeks in november ----I would value any advice or recommendations as I havent visited since 2001.  Best wishes

Eu amo essas fotos eu estou viajando lá por algumas semanas em novembro ---- Daria valor algum conselho ou recomendações como Eu ainda não visitou desde 2001. Os melhores cumprimentos

 

 

[Xhoniwaters1]

Awesome Pictures! Regarding the Geonoma's...looks like too dry of an environment for G schottiana...they need humidity and dampness??

[Pal Meir]

  On 9/9/2016 at 4:39 PM, Xhoniwaters1 said:

Awesome Pictures! Regarding the Geonoma's...looks like too dry of an environment for G schottiana...they need humidity and dampness??

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If it is really clustering it could be G brevispatha.

[Davi Aguiar]

Hi Pal Meir. Yeah, I think you’re right, it seems to be the brevispatha. Because of this Kew picture (http://www.kew.org/science/tropamerica/imagedatabase/large1/cat_single1-1783.htm) which could very well have been taken around that area.

 

Hi EdBrown_III!

 

As for recommendations on what to do, it would all depend on what you like to do(, and how much you like to walk). Tring to keep it as much palm related as possible:

 

In Serra do Cipó:

 

There is the Parque Nacional Serra do Cipó(Serra do Cipó National Park). The entrance is free and it’s wilderness is amazing. All the pictures of my last post were taken there.  >There is the Farofa Waterfall(Pictured in the last Post), which is 8km from the entrance of the park. In the way you could see Syagrus flexuosa, Syagrus romanzoffiana, Allagoptera campestris, Acrocamia aculeata, Geonoma brevispatha, and possibly others that I haven’t taken notice of, or that I forgot. The trail is mostly flat.

>Canion das Andorinhas. It is a bit further from the entrance of the park(11km). It is very beautifull and on the way there which is very falt, I’ve seen Allagoptera campestris, Acrocamia aculeata and Syagrus duartei. 

>There is another waterfall,(I forgot it’s name) which is not as beautiul as the other places, it’s shorter distance(5km) but uphill. There I’ve seen Allagoptera campetris, Syagrus duartei, Butia(probably archeri).

 

> Trilha dos escravos: It’s out of the national park, it’s entrance is free, much shorter distance (but uphill)  and I’ve taken most of the pictures of the first post there. A nice place.

 

If you’re fit you could probably go to all of these places in two days. Last July I went to the Canion das Andorinhas and the Farofa Waterall in the same day(they share most of the way) -26km-It was almost too much for me. 

 

In Belo Horizonte, I recommend that you go to the pampulha lake, where you’ll be able to see many different birds, mainly water fowls. 

This website(http://www.wikiaves.com/especies.php?t=c&c=3106200) is a sharing platform for pictures of birds taken in the wild in Brazil. It is in Portuguese, though. 

Around the lake there is the zoo and botanical garden, they have a good amount of palms. It’s not great, but good enough, I think. And it’s fairly cheap, also. The best bothanical garden around here is the Inhotim botanical garden and contemporary art museum. I regard contemporary art as crap, but they have outstanding plants, mainly palms.

For historical things around, I recommend Ouro Preto, which is the most famous city of the Brazilian golden age. And you can also visit us at our farm there(actually a bit off the way to get there)!

Give me a heads up, when you come, I might be able to show you around.