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help identifying a palm

16 years ago

all i can tell you is i saw them in the miami metro zoo and the fan fronds are about 6 feet long [maybe a little shorter] and i saw another one that looked a lot like it but it was incredibly short and the fronds were longer and i was wondering what kind it is heres 2 pics of them the one with 3 in it im standing about 30ish feet back just to give you an idea how the size

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc134/VY5E/Zoo022.jpg

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc134/VY5E/Zoo021.jpg

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trini1trini
16 years ago
The first photo looks like sabal palmetto or one of the the native sabals in Florida. But in the 2nd photo, it looks like ribbon palm/Livistona decipiens. I am not 100% sure though.
tugbrethil
16 years ago
I'm really familiar with the second one,--it's Mexican fan palm (Washingtonia robusta), or a hybrid of that and California Fan Palm (Washingtonia filifera). It actually looks like the hybrid is a little more probable.

The first one is out of my ken. My first impulse was a Sabal, but then the back of my head kept throwing out Livistona, and even Thrinax.

What does the back of my head know, anyway!
Kevin : )
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