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Palms of New Guinea - coming soon!

Bill Baker (Kew)

By Bill Baker (Kew)
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It gives me great pleasure to announce that I have submitted the manuscript for the long-awaited "Palms of New Guinea" book to Kew Publishing today.  This will be the first detailed account of all 250 species from the New Guinea region and i t should really help all of us make sense of this last big black hole in our knowledge of palm diversity, as well as protecting it. 

It has been a labour of love spanning over 20 years for myself and my co-authors Anders Barfod, Rodrigo Camara-Leret, Charlie Heatubun, Peter Petoe, Jess Turner, Scott Zona and John Dransfield. Every species will be illustrated by beautiful line drawings by Lucy T. Smith, augmented by 100s of photos. We're aiming for a publication date of end 2023 - so watch this space folks. As a teaser, here's shot of the exquisite Manjekia maturbongsii from Biak, one of the amazing new genera to emerge from this work.

Bill Baker, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

  

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Kim Grand Master

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Looking forward to it!

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Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
All characters  in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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I can only imagine what a labor of love preparing this much awaited palm reference. 

Looking forward to it as well.

Tim

 

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mike in kurtistown Mentor

mike in kurtistown

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Also looking forward to it.

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Mike Merritt

Big Island of Hawaii, windward, rainy side, 740 feet (225 meters) elevation

165 inches (4,200 mm) of rain per year, 66 to 83 deg F (20 to 28 deg C) in summer, 62 to 80 deg F (16.7 to 26.7 Deg C) in winter.

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Palm Tree Jim

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Thanks for the update on this!

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GottmitAlex

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:yay:

 

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Palmarum Grand Master

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oooh....

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Great news!

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akamu

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The picture of the new Palm species is stunning looking forward to this book thank you for putting this together

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On 7/20/2022 at 4:30 PM, Bill Baker (Kew) said:

 

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Stumbled on this YouTube video of @Jeff Searle planting one of these in the ground a couple months back.    Great looking palm.   Look forward to the book.   

 

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Cindy Adair Grand Master

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I am so glad to hear Jeff Searle has planted one in Florida. Congrats to him!

Maybe one day I can try this palm in Puerto Rico.

Thanks Looking Glass for sharing the video! 

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Thanks all for your positive feedback!

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Awesome! Definitely going to have to check it out!

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When I was a fellow student at our University's Southeast Asian Studies Institute I was always deeply impressed by those of us who travelled down to

PNG for whatever reasons they had - it was always like visiting the dark side of the moon or going beyond... While guys like me island-hopped through Indonesia 

as a max and stayed within known borders, PNG was definitely another stage in every respect... 

So, to keep it short - if I will have a chance to get a hand on this publication - please count me in!

 

With kind regards -

 

Lars

 

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Sorely needed.  I'll be waiting anxiously!  

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