Ceroxylon quindiuense - habitat photos

[Josue Diaz]

I don't think we could ever get enough habitat photos of Ceroxylon. These were taken yesterday in Cocora, Colombia. Check out that tibouchina in the last photo! I wish more species in the Melastomataceae family were available in the states. 

 

[richnorm]

Sadly soon to be gone.

[NC_Palms]

Absolutely stunning habitat photos

[Josh76]

Gorgeous photos... but once again, I don't see any juvenile palms growing up to take their place when they're gone. Beautiful but sad 

[Cristóbal]

Amazing, wonderful fotos !

 

 

[palmfriend]

Wow!

After Bo`s breathtakingly beautiful photos from Chile the next spectacular habitat pictures of one of my favorite species -

thank you so much!

Unfortunately a no-goer for my place since our temperatures do not drop at night time significantly for more than half a year -

same heat day and night, my young seedlings could not deal with it...

However, Josue - thank you very much again,

best regards

Lars

 

[daxin]

@richnorm it seems that Valle de Cocora is free of cattles now and there might be some new planting going in. 

[Josh76]

@daxin Wonderful news! 

[Josue Diaz]

14 hours ago, daxin said:

@richnorm it seems that Valle de Cocora is free of cattles now and there might be some new planting going in. 

That looks agricultural in nature. Hopefully they use agro-forestry methods and allow Ceroxylon to repopulate. We are using similar methods on our cacao farm in El Salvador and allowing acrocomia to regenerate. 

[LJG]

15 minutes ago, Josue Diaz said:

That looks agricultural in nature. Hopefully they use agro-forestry methods and allow Ceroxylon to repopulate. We are using similar methods on our cacao farm in El Salvador and allowing acrocomia to regenerate. 

I walked through that area. Those are Avocados. 

[richnorm]

On 2/16/2019 at 10:32 PM, daxin said:

@richnorm it seems that Valle de Cocora is free of cattles now and there might be some new planting going in. 

I heard that efforts are being made  to do some replanting.  Turning agriculture back to  natural habitat is such a difficult issue.  

[Josue Diaz]

11 minutes ago, richnorm said:

I heard that efforts are being made  to do some replanting.  Turning agriculture back to  natural habitat is such a difficult issue.  

shade-grown crops are ideal for reforestation efforts. There's a big push for Cacao cultivation in central america for that reason. Canopy trees can coexist with an agriculturally productive understory crop like cacao or coffee. 

[daxin]

On 2/16/2019 at 4:20 PM, LJG said:

I walked through that area. Those are Avocados. 

That’s really disappointing if the goal is just for the fruits.

I did see several one-leaf seedlings at the base of one Ceroxylon quindiuense at Tochecito.(most others do not have any) I truly wish this is evidence that the seeds from these very old specimens are still quite capable of regenerating the forest if the locals would just give them a chance by removing the cattle  ASAP. 

 

 

[GMann]

Amazing photos!

[Alberto]

On 2/18/2019 at 5:54 AM, daxin said:

That’s really disappointing if the goal is just for the fruits.

I did see several one-leaf seedlings at the base of one Ceroxylon quindiuense at Tochecito.(most others do not have any) I truly wish this is evidence that the seeds from these very old specimens are still quite capable of regenerating the forest if the locals would just give them a chance by removing the cattle  ASAP. 

 

 

Bo is right.  I also walked at the side of this avocado plantation. Some of the seeds I collected at the base of the palms are germinating here.  I bet in the near future there will be Ceroxylon seedlings popping up below the young avocado trees. I hope they will let them grow.....

[Alberto]

[BS Man about Palms]

On 2/16/2019 at 4:20 PM, LJG said:

I walked through that area. Those are Avocados. 

WE walked through that area...