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Coccothrinax argentata (Jacquin, 1801) - silver thatch palms in the Bahamas.
Plants are multicellular, photosynthesizing eucaryotes. Most species occupy terrestrial environments, but they also occur in freshwater and saltwater aquatic environments. The oldest known land plants in the fossil record are Ordovician to Silurian. Land plant body fossils are known in Silurian sedimentary rocks - they are small and simple plants (e.g., Cooksonia). Fossil root traces in paleosol horizons are known in the Ordovician. During the Devonian, the first trees and forests appeared. Earth's initial forestation event occurred during the Middle to Late Paleozoic. Earth's continents have been partly to mostly covered with forests ever since the Late Devonian. Occasional mass extinction events temporarily removed much of Earth's plant ecosystems - this occurred at the Permian-Triassic boundary (251 million years ago) and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (65 million years ago).
The most conspicuous group of living plants is the angiosperms, the flowering plants. They first unambiguously appeared in the fossil record during the Cretaceous. They quickly dominated Earth's terrestrial ecosystems, and have dominated ever since. This domination was due to the evolutionary success of flowers, which are structures that greatly aid angiosperm reproduction.
Silver thatch palm trees have relatively thin, subcylindrical trunks that can reach 5 to 10 meters tall. The crown consists of several fans (leaf blades) of highly elongated leaf segments that radiate outward from the leaf stalk. This slow-growing palm tree occurs in coastal limestone and limestone soil settings on some Caribbean islands and in parts of Florida and Mexico.
Classification: Plantae, Angiospermophyta, Arecales, Arecaceae/Palmae
Locality: near Sandy Point, southwestern corner of San Salvador Island, eastern Bahamas
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Coccothrinax argentata (Jacquin, 1801) - silver thatch palm in the Bahamas.
Plants are multicellular, photosynthesizing eucaryotes. Most species occupy terrestrial environments, but they also occur in freshwater and saltwater aquatic environments. The oldest known land plants in the fossil record are Ordovician to Silurian. Land plant body fossils are known in Silurian sedimentary rocks - they are small and simple plants (e.g., Cooksonia). Fossil root traces in paleosol horizons are known in the Ordovician. During the Devonian, the first trees and forests appeared. Earth's initial forestation event occurred during the Middle to Late Paleozoic. Earth's continents have been partly to mostly covered with forests ever since the Late Devonian. Occasional mass extinction events temporarily removed much of Earth's plant ecosystems - this occurred at the Permian-Triassic boundary (251 million years ago) and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (65 million years ago).
The most conspicuous group of living plants is the angiosperms, the flowering plants. They first unambiguously appeared in the fossil record during the Cretaceous. They quickly dominated Earth's terrestrial ecosystems, and have dominated ever since. This domination was due to the evolutionary success of flowers, which are structures that greatly aid angiosperm reproduction.
Silver thatch palm trees have relatively thin, subcylindrical trunks that can reach 5 to 10 meters tall. The crown consists of several fans (leaf blades) of highly elongated leaf segments that radiate outward from the leaf stalk. This slow-growing palm tree occurs in coastal limestone and limestone soil settings on some Caribbean islands and in parts of Florida and Mexico.
Classification: Plantae, Angiospermophyta, Arecales, Arecaceae/Palmae
Locality: near Sandy Point, southwestern corner of San Salvador Island, eastern Bahamas
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Obwohl der bahamasische Karibische Kiefernwald nur auf den vier nördlichen Inseln der Bahamas- Grand Bahama, Abaco, Andros und New Providence - zu finden ist, hat er es zu zwei Ökosysteme gebracht:
auf New Providence (Bahamas) besteht er hauptsächlich aus Sisalpflanzen und Silver Thatch Palmen (Coccothrinax argentea) (Quelle: thebahamianphotographer.com/2014/12/03/pine-forest-of-the...).
Coccothrinax salvatoris is a palm native to Cuba.
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Coccothrinax argentata (Jacquin, 1801) - silver thatch palms in the Bahamas.
Plants are multicellular, photosynthesizing eucaryotes. Most species occupy terrestrial environments, but they also occur in freshwater and saltwater aquatic environments. The oldest known land plants in the fossil record are Ordovician to Silurian. Land plant body fossils are known in Silurian sedimentary rocks - they are small and simple plants (e.g., Cooksonia). Fossil root traces in paleosol horizons are known in the Ordovician. During the Devonian, the first trees and forests appeared. Earth's initial forestation event occurred during the Middle to Late Paleozoic. Earth's continents have been partly to mostly covered with forests ever since the Late Devonian. Occasional mass extinction events temporarily removed much of Earth's plant ecosystems - this occurred at the Permian-Triassic boundary (251 million years ago) and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (65 million years ago).
The most conspicuous group of living plants is the angiosperms, the flowering plants. They first unambiguously appeared in the fossil record during the Cretaceous. They quickly dominated Earth's terrestrial ecosystems, and have dominated ever since. This domination was due to the evolutionary success of flowers, which are structures that greatly aid angiosperm reproduction.
Silver thatch palm trees have relatively thin, subcylindrical trunks that can reach 5 to 10 meters tall. The crown consists of several fans (leaf blades) of highly elongated leaf segments that radiate outward from the leaf stalk. This slow-growing palm tree occurs in coastal limestone and limestone soil settings on some Caribbean islands and in parts of Florida and Mexico.
Classification: Plantae, Angiospermophyta, Arecales, Arecaceae/Palmae
Locality: near Sandy Point, southwestern corner of San Salvador Island, eastern Bahamas
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Coccothrinax argentata (Jacquin, 1801) - silver thatch palms in the Bahamas.
Plants are multicellular, photosynthesizing eucaryotes. Most species occupy terrestrial environments, but they also occur in freshwater and saltwater aquatic environments. The oldest known land plants in the fossil record are Ordovician to Silurian. Land plant body fossils are known in Silurian sedimentary rocks - they are small and simple plants (e.g., Cooksonia). Fossil root traces in paleosol horizons are known in the Ordovician. During the Devonian, the first trees and forests appeared. Earth's initial forestation event occurred during the Middle to Late Paleozoic. Earth's continents have been partly to mostly covered with forests ever since the Late Devonian. Occasional mass extinction events temporarily removed much of Earth's plant ecosystems - this occurred at the Permian-Triassic boundary (251 million years ago) and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (65 million years ago).
The most conspicuous group of living plants is the angiosperms, the flowering plants. They first unambiguously appeared in the fossil record during the Cretaceous. They quickly dominated Earth's terrestrial ecosystems, and have dominated ever since. This domination was due to the evolutionary success of flowers, which are structures that greatly aid angiosperm reproduction.
Silver thatch palm trees have relatively thin, subcylindrical trunks that can reach 5 to 10 meters tall. The crown consists of several fans (leaf blades) of highly elongated leaf segments that radiate outward from the leaf stalk. This slow-growing palm tree occurs in coastal limestone and limestone soil settings on some Caribbean islands and in parts of Florida and Mexico.
Classification: Plantae, Angiospermophyta, Arecales, Arecaceae/Palmae
Locality: near Sand Dollar Beach and Rocky Point, northwestern corner of San Salvador Island, eastern Bahamas
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Avispas en su panal dentro de un hueco en tronco de la palma Guano Manso o Banilejo (Coccothrinax spissa). Baní, Provincia Peravia, Rep. Dominicana.
Coccothrinax argentata (Jacquin, 1801) - silver thatch palms in the Bahamas.
Plants are multicellular, photosynthesizing eucaryotes. Most species occupy terrestrial environments, but they also occur in freshwater and saltwater aquatic environments. The oldest known land plants in the fossil record are Ordovician to Silurian. Land plant body fossils are known in Silurian sedimentary rocks - they are small and simple plants (e.g., Cooksonia). Fossil root traces in paleosol horizons are known in the Ordovician. During the Devonian, the first trees and forests appeared. Earth's initial forestation event occurred during the Middle to Late Paleozoic. Earth's continents have been partly to mostly covered with forests ever since the Late Devonian. Occasional mass extinction events temporarily removed much of Earth's plant ecosystems - this occurred at the Permian-Triassic boundary (251 million years ago) and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (65 million years ago).
The most conspicuous group of living plants is the angiosperms, the flowering plants. They first unambiguously appeared in the fossil record during the Cretaceous. They quickly dominated Earth's terrestrial ecosystems, and have dominated ever since. This domination was due to the evolutionary success of flowers, which are structures that greatly aid angiosperm reproduction.
Silver thatch palm trees have relatively thin, subcylindrical trunks that can reach 5 to 10 meters tall. The crown consists of several fans (leaf blades) of highly elongated leaf segments that radiate outward from the leaf stalk. This slow-growing palm tree occurs in coastal limestone and limestone soil settings on some Caribbean islands and in parts of Florida and Mexico.
Classification: Plantae, Angiospermophyta, Arecales, Arecaceae/Palmae
Locality: near Sandy Point, southwestern corner of San Salvador Island, eastern Bahamas
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El Jardín Botánico Nacional de Santo Domingo ó con el nombre completo Jardín Botánico Nacional, Dr. Rafael Ma. Moscoso de Santo Domingo, R.D. es un jardín botánico de unos dos millones de metros cuadrados, que se encuentra en la ciudad caribeña de Santo Domingo en la República Dominicana. Su emblema es una hoja del guanito (Coccothrinax argentea), palma delgada muy abundante dentro del jardín
Localización
El Jardín Botánico se encuentra situado en los Altos de Galá, una zona de Santo Domingo cuya altitud varia entre 70 a 80 msnm .
Su clima es tropical, húmedo, con una precipitación media anual de 1366 mm. El suelo es calizo, poco profundo y escasa fertilidad. El relieve es ligeramente plano y con numerosas ondulaciones.
Historia
El Jardín Botánico Nacional se fundó con el fin de estudiar, preservar e investigar la variada flora de la República Dominicana. Fue creado mediante la Ley 456 de 1976 e inaugurado el 15 de agosto de 1976.
Lleva el nombre del Dr. Rafael M. Moscoso como homenaje al primer botánico dominicano que escribió un catálogo de la flora de la Isla Española en 1943.
El Jardín Botánico es una institución descentralizada que depende de la Secretaría Administrativa de la Presidencia de la República Dominicana. Su actual director es: Ricardo Garcia
Palma de abanico. Rigid , non dropping leaves which have a silvery underneath. This is a slow growing palm, this four feet specimen is about 8 years old. Once thought to be Coccothrinax alta, but have no dropping leaves. Was collected from seed in Puerto Rico.
The intact Florida silver palm and Florida slash pine forest on Big Pine Key are impressive. The trees grow in the Miami Limestone pavement. For more information: www.plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=THMO4
Unidentified, silver underneath leaves, but rigid, no dropping leaves. Seeds collected in Puerto Rico. This palm is about 8 years old, really slow grower. Once thought to be Coccothrinax alta, but all the photos I've seen of C. alta have dropping leaves.
The pot is lightweight, handmade. The cactus isn't growing fast, but it seems healthy. The yellow flowers above are from an Epiphyllum cactus in a hanging pot. Red leaves at bottom are caladium 'Florida cardinal." The cluster of leaves at the lower left with a bright flower stalk is a "matchstick" Aechmea bromeliad. The big fan-like palm leaves are a Coccothrinax that suffers cold damage but has so far grown back quickly. It's beginning to have a trunk. (It was planted around 2006)
The rare Coccothrinax crinita, or Old Man Palm is native and endemic to Cuba, meaning it is a species that evolved on this Caribbean island and is not found anywhere else in the world in native habitat. It usually grows in seasonally flooded savannah up to 500m, occasionally in grasslands and hilly areas. This palm can withstand temperatures as low as 20 degrees Fahrenheit when mature and sheds its oldest thatch in windy conditions.
The Old Man Palm is now critically endangered with only 60 – 130 trees left on its native location.