Palm ID?
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SkwerI
Treehouser
Chinese fan palm? Had one at the house when I was a kid, the trunk wasn't that fat though. You can see it on the left side of this picture. It has a trunk similar to a roebelini (sp).
SkwerI
Treehouser
oops, looks like I was mistaken. How about european fan palm?
http://www.floridata.com/ref/C/cham_hum.cfm
http://www.floridata.com/ref/C/cham_hum.cfm
B
Banned by Squirrels
Guest
I H8 palms. There are so many varieties upon varieties. Looks like the one in your original pic had thin string like ends on the leaves no?
NickfromWI
King of Splices
Here I think that's a windmill palm... Trachycarpus fortunei...i think
That's what I thought it was.
NickfromWI
King of Splices
That particular one does better in cooler climates. It is also the first palm I ever climbed! I remember that it was this enough that I had to be careful how I shifted my weight up top!
Here's a pic from a SUPER talk one I climbed a couple years ago. In LA this species doesn't often go over 15 or 20 feet. This one was almost 30.
I'm no palm expert, though. I've flipped through some palm id books and I'm not sure i'd ever be able to keep them all straight. Every palm has 20 others that look almost just like it.
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nick
Here's a pic from a SUPER talk one I climbed a couple years ago. In LA this species doesn't often go over 15 or 20 feet. This one was almost 30.
I'm no palm expert, though. I've flipped through some palm id books and I'm not sure i'd ever be able to keep them all straight. Every palm has 20 others that look almost just like it.
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nick
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sawinredneck
Treehouser
Cut it down and figure it out then
Paul B
I dig hammocks.
I guessed windmill too, the only couple of hardy-ish palms around here are windmill and fan palm. the rest are too sketchy to try to over winter.
vharrison
Island Girl
Cut it down and figure it out then
That is what Ekkka would do. :what: A close up of the trunk might help, I will get John to look at it. I assume the palm is in Cali?
vharrison
Island Girl
John thinks it is some type of hybrid Washingtonia. I thought it was a washy also, but the trunk just did not ring true for me. Can you get a close up of the trunk?
SkwerI
Treehouser
Gigi, I think Nick and Steve are correct. The windmill and european fan are similar, but the european fan is smaller with a skinnier trunk and smaller fronds.
sotc
Dormant hero!!
just looks like a palm to me
NickfromWI
King of Splices
Gigi- washingtonia don't have all that fuzzy hairy stuff all over the base of the trunks like the windmill do. Based on the size of the tree (guessing from the pic) and the presence of the fuzzies, I'm not thinking it is either W. filifera or W. robusta (the only two washingtonias I know).
Looks at me talking about palms like I know a little about them!!!
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nick
Looks at me talking about palms like I know a little about them!!!
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nick
Paul B
I dig hammocks.
vharrison
Island Girl
I agree, Nick.
vl2007
Treehouser
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
That looks like a lotta fun!
vharrison
Island Girl
Come on down, between vl2007 and Dot Palm, we could let you have all the fun you wanted!
All the way from Key Largo to Key West!
SkwerI
Treehouser
Were you able to get in those palms from the roof? Looks like it would have been a lot easier than climbing over or through that huge skirt. In years past I've been known to take a ladder up on the roof and use it to access the top of some tall washies.
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Mr. Sir
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vl2007
Treehouser
No, the adjustable false croch is very fast and safe. It takes about 10min to set the bull rope & climbing line, and about 2-3min to climb over the skirt.
