Palms and Cycads: Caryota urens I think, 1 by flyboyFL

flyboyFL wrote:
Now I am not particularly a "palm guy."

I know the difference between a palm and a tree -- that is about it.

Several years ago our landscaper presented us with a "palm" to fill a spot in our vegetative screen. He called it a "fishtail," that was good enough for me. It flourished in this bare corner of our property. Not really tended, shorn of a dead frond every now and then.

I just looked at this phenomenon in the fading sun -- and it appeared as if someone's blanket had gotten caught in its upper region. Nice and tweedy-looking. My binoculars were not handy, so I photographed it with my iPhone and brought it inside to enlarge it.

WOW. The photo immediately sent me to Google -- and I Googled.

Who would ever believe it. I discovered that what I had was actually a Caryota urens -- and that this "thing" was actually a blossom!

Will someone please tell me more.

Be well

(o_O)