Palms
Palm Trees
Description : Palm Trees are tropical evergreen plants. True palms are members of the palm family (Palmae). From the way the leaves are arranged on the stem, palms are generally described as either fan palms or feather palms. Palmate are leaves of fan palms, radiating out from one point, like a fan. Feather palms have a more plumy effect. Mostly large and treelike, with a single woody trunk topped by a crown of leaves. Most do well in a temperature of 60 degrees or above.
Description of Palms by leaf
PALMATE LEAF PALMS
The segments radiate from a central point, as in the palm of the hand.
COSTAPALMATE LEAF PALMS
The leafstem contiues on into the blade of the leaf and curves downward.
FISHTALE LEAFLET PALMS
Each leaf;et is shaped like a tail of a fish (leaf is twice compound).
PINNATE LEAF PALMS
The leaflets are spaced along the midrib of the leaf , as in a feather.
PINNATE LEAF PALMS -- INDUPLICATE
Leaflets folded, margins higher than midrib.
PINNATE LEAF PALMS -- REDUPLICATE
Leafs folded, midrib higher than margins.
SPINY PALMS
Spines on leaf stem (often elsewhere).
CROWNSHAFT PALMS
Leafstem bases clasping.
NO-SPINE NO-CROWNSHAFT PALMS
Lacking spines on crownshaft.
PALMATE LEAF PALMS
Washingtonia
Washingtonia
Description : The to two species known of Washigntonia are from California and Mexico. Trunks of Washigntonias may be hidden in a thick shag of dead laeves. Exposed surface of the trunk may be covbered by short fibers and patches of leafstem bases, or slightly scarred. Margins are armed with sharp teeth. Leaves are large and moderatly folded. In youth, both species have threads in the sinuses, though both have extended sinus stop patterns.
Washingtonia Robusta
Description : The Mexican Washigntonia's trunk is taller, narrower, and more tapered. Pale gray with no brown, often deeply incised near the base, and the leaves are a brighter green.
Washingtonia Filifera
Description : The California Washingtonia has a sturdy trunk in pale brown. The leaves are a lighter green and the trheads in the sinuses are conspicuous.
Copernicia
Copernicia : Description : A wide range of variation of characteristics make up 30 species of this genus. Shared slightly is an extended sinus stop pattern. The second is armament on the leafstems of those who have leafstems, on the leaves of those that are steamless. The only mutiple trunk species has a trunk that is either clean, or cloaked in spiralled leafsteam bases without fiber od fiber matting. In all Copernicias, both male and female sex organs occur in the same flower.
Copernicia Rigida
Depernica :The trunk of the Jata Palm in youth is covered with fragile, papery dead leaves. When aged, it is clean, and marked with incomplete ring scars. Small sharp teeth arm the outer segments and some segment midribs. Leaves are exceptionally narrow with an arc of about 30 degrees.
Copernicia Macroglsso
Description : Cuban Pettioat Palm A cloak of dead leaves hides the trunk until old age of the tree. Leafstems abaent, and segments describe a braod wedge, from about 90 to 180 degrees. The teeth are small but sharp along the outer segments and upper sides of the midribs. Rigid segments are split at the apex for about an inch.
Copernicia Prunifera
Description : Carnauba Palm The trunk is spiralled with old leafbases in youth, the basal portion often remaining in old age. The trunk is gray and smooth with incomplete ring-scars. Leafstems are not divided. Leafsteam margins are toothed the entire length with large, black curved hooks. Leaf sinuses are deep, halfway to the base. Segments are waxy and stiff, split at the tip, and attached to the steam evenly, not angled.
Copernicia Glabrescens
Description : Guano Palm is similar to the Carnauba Palm eith these important exceptions. The Guano Palm may and frequently does produce suckers from the base of the trunk. Leaf segments are devoid of wax and the trunk is roughened with few old leafbases and raised ring-scars. Teeth on the leafstems are smaller and more numerous. The tiny flowers lack the hair that coats similar structures in other members of the gunus.
Copernicia Baileyana
Description : Bailey Copernicia The surface of the trunk is smooth, gray, and lightly ringed when grown in the open, but is dark and mottled where the trunk is in shadows. Leafstems are braod at the base, but not divided. Margins are very strongly toothed. Leaves are round in outline with rigid waxy segments. The portion of the leafstems within the base are 2 to 5 inches in legnth.
Trachycarpus
Trachycarpus : Description : Eight species make up this genus. Seedlings tend to rot at groound level and if they survive, growth is slow. Specimens may be found from near Jacksonville to Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Trachycarpus Fortunei
Description : Chinese Windmill Palm The trunk is solitary and straight, Usaully ragged with remnants of old leafstem bases. Leafstems bases are not divided and stems are exceptionally slender. Margins are not toothed but ahve small rounded bumps. Leaves are flat, very dark, dull in green above, and nearly silver beneath. Segemnts are few in number and are deeply divded. The sinus stop pattern appears to be haphazard. Segment are rigid in young trees, older ones have more lax segments bending near the tip. The small hastula juts abruptly at 45 degrees and usaully pointed. Flower stalks are generally one and a half feet long with male and female flowers on different trees. Flowers are white and yellow and the fruit is blue, bean shaped, and glossy.
Thrinax
Thrinax Description : From the shoresa and islands of the Carribean
Thrinax Microcarpa
Description : Silvery, Brittle Thatch Palm
Thrinax Floridana
Description : Florida Thatch Palm
Thrinax Excelsa
Description : Jamaican Thatch Palm
Coccothrinax
Description :
Coccothrinax Argentata
Description : Florida Silver Palm
Coccothrinax Argentea
Description : Hispaniolan Silver Palm
Coccothrinax Dussiana
Description :
Coccothrinax Crinita
Description : The Old Man Palm
Coccothrinax Miraguama
Description :
Cryosphila
Description :
Cryosphila Warscewiczii
Description : Rootspine Palm
Cryosphila Argentea
Description : Silvery Rootspine Palm
Schippia
Description :
Schippia Concolor
Description :
Licuala
Description :
Licuala Grandis
Description :
Acoelorrhaphe
Description :
Acoelorrhaphe Wrightii
Description : Everlade, Paurotis Palm
Zombia
Description :
Zombia Antillarum
Description : Zombie Palm
Chamaerops
Description :
Chamaerops Humilis
Description : European Fan Palm
Serenoa
Description :
Serenoa Repens
Description : Saw Palmetto
Rhapis
Description :
Rhapis Excelsa
Description : Lady Palm
Rhapis Humilis
Description : Lady Palm
Rhapidophyllum
Description :
Rhapidophyllum Hystrix
Description : Needle Palm
COSTAPALMATE LEAF PALMS
Brahea
Description :
Brahea Armata
Big Blue Hesper Palm
Livistona
Description :
Livistona Chinensis
Description : Chinese Fan Palm
Livistona Rotundifolia
Description :
Livistona Australis
Description : Australian Cabbage Palm
Livistona Decipiens
Description :
Borassus
Description :
Borassus Flabellifer
Description : Palmyra palm
Corypha
Description :
Corypha Umbraculifera
Description : Talipot palm
Corypha Elata
Description : Buri palm
Bismarckia
FISHTALE LEAFLET PALMS
PINNATE LEAF PALMS
PINNATE LEAF PALMS -- INDUPLICATE
PINNATE LEAF PALMS -- REDUPLICATE
SPINY PALMS
CROWNSHAFT PALMS
NO-SPINE NO-CROWNSHAFT PALMS
JELLY PALM (BUTIA CAPITATA)
ISMARCK PALM (BISMARCK
NOBILIS)
CANARY ISLAND DATE (PHOENIX CANARIENSIS)
MAJELY PALM
EVERGLADES PALM
GOLGEN MALAYAN COCONAT PALM
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