So with all you palm people here, do any of you recognize this palm? Trying to get an ID. Attached are pics of the big fruit, a piece, and the...
Yes, and they worked! That said, I was brave and used a towel (still pricked myself, ouch). Here are the pics of the "seed" inside and the...
No, not yet. Had a weird moment about it since it's unknown and so spiny, and didn't know whether any palm species have a defense mechanism. But...
Okay, so here are the pictures of the palm fruit. You can see the fronds a little in one of the pics (sorry, the ones I took didn't turn out and I...
Oh wonderful. I always wanted to be a botanist and still plan on studying it one day. In the meantime, I'm just trying to identify the species...
Really? Can you eat them? I realized looking at more pictures it may not be the elaeis. I thought the elaeis had one big fruit, but it's actually...
Okay, I think we are getting close...I saw one picture of elaeis spp that fit the bill. I would love for it to be the tagua, and that almost...
I will try to get a picture tomorrow, my camera is broken. It's not a morretes. The palm fronds are more like a coconut palm. And the fruit is one...
Actually, it's not just our avocado trees, it's also a "bean tree" (sorry, don't know the name, that's just the local common Panamanian...
Hi there, I don't have a pic, but I found a bunch of palm trees (in Panama), all the same: about 12 ft high (don't know if it's their full...