Beautiful Phoenix Stand

[Ubuwuntu]

I visited a stand I've had my eyes on for a while yesterday, it's on what used to be an old cultivated wadi which is now blocked off by industrial development (in SE Spain). They were quite beautiful palms so I though I'd share.

[Phoenikakias]

Much morphological diversity between the individuals. First one does seem fitting ideally in to the description of Phoenix iberica, no? Of course with the reservation regardind eventual inflos and fruit/seeds.

[Ubuwuntu]

7 hours ago, Phoenikakias said:

Much morphological diversity between the individuals. First one does seem fitting ideally in to the description of Phoenix iberica, no? Of course with the reservation regardind eventual inflos and fruit/seeds.

Yeah, the seed shape was very diverse too. From what I was able to gather they varied from small (1cm) seeds very similar to reclinata, to massive thick rounded seeds (about 4-5cm long by 2cm thick). There were two females that seemed identical and had the exact same seed shape which were long and rounded (4cm long by 0'5-1cm thick), they seemed to be clonal offshoots of a "select female", where as a lot of the others share a lot of features with wild iberica. I'll try to share some photos of the seeds later.

[Ubuwuntu]

@Phoenikakias

Here are the seeds. From three different females.

Female 1 (20 seeds):

Female 2 seeds:

Female 3 seeds: