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Base of seedling showing dense indument on petioles and leaf bases.
This stately palm is one of my favourites. It rather resembles an Archontophoenix but is far more beautiful. Aside from its beautiful silhouette and long lavender-grey crownshaft, the petioles and rachises are densely covered in attractive rusty-brown felt-like indument. It is the tallest palm species endemic to New Caledonia and at 25m towers over forest canopy. Visible from great distances from its habitat in a 10 x 17 km area in Col d'Amos and the Pam Peninsula ridge, 300-600m elev in NE Caledonia it grows gregariously on soils derived from schistose rocks. Rare in cultivation due to its slow growth and great dislike of low humidity but it is well worth the patience necessary. The largest and oldest specimen outside of NC is at Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden. This species thrives in the moist windward areas of the Hawaiian archipelago but struggles in the semi-arid leeward areas.
I donated this seedling to the National Tropical Botanical Garden, Lāwa'i, Kaua'i.
Ref: Hodel, D.R, & Pintaud, J.C. (1998). The Palms of New Caledonia / Les Palmiers de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Lawrence Kansas: Allen Press.
MSC MAGNIFICA leaving Southampton for St-Nazaire. She will then set off again for Hamburg with 2,500 German passengers on board, where she will be christened in front of the godmother for all new MSC Cruise ships, screen legend Sophia Loren, on Saturday 6 March 2010
MSC Cruise Ship
Launched: January 2009
Entered service: 2010
Flag: Panama
Width: 36 m
Length: 293 m
Gross tonnage: 93330
IMO: 9387085
MMSI: 352594000
Photo taken from Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK, 28 February 2010
Bignoniaceae (bignonia Family) >> Saritaea Magnifica :)
Synonyms: Bignonia magnifica
Common Names: Glow vine, Purple funnel vine
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(Clicked at JNCASR, Bangalore)
IJmuiden, Holland on 12th September 2014.
IMO number :9387085
Name of ship :MSC MAGNIFICA
Call Sign :3FLO4
MMSI :352594000
Gross tonnage :95128
DWT :9429
Type of ship :Passenger (Cruise) Ship
Year of build :2010
Flag :Panama
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IJmuiden, Holland on 27th September 2014.
IMO number :9387085
Name of ship :MSC MAGNIFICA
Call Sign :3FLO4
MMSI :352594000
Gross tonnage :95128
DWT :9429
Type of ship :Passenger (Cruise) Ship
Year of build :2010
Flag :Panama