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Hyophorbe verschaffeltii, the Palmiste Marron, or Spindle Palm is a species of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.
Spindle Palms are elegant looking palms that are prized for landscape palms in the tropical and semi-tropical areas of the world. They are fairly short palms with 8-10 leaves that are held somewhat erect. Spindle palms have a crownshaft that becomes a light gray-green as the palm ages. Horn-like flower spikes emerge from below the crownshaft on mature specimens.
Spindle palms are fairly cold intolerant. They are defoliated at 32°F (0°C) and may be killed at anything below that. If the palm does survive a freeze, the next few emerging leaves are stunted. Spindle palms grow in the USA only in south Florida and in isolated favored microclimates in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area and the Cape Canaveral area of central Florida. They do make good container plants that can be protected from a freeze.
Spindle Palms are endemic to Rodrigues island, Mauritius. It is threatened by habitat loss.[1] There are only fifty or so specimens left in the wild, although its survival as a species is guaranteed due to ubiquitous cultivation in tropical areas of the planet.
Walnut was chosen for the 11 3/4 inches long shaft of this elegant Tibetan support spindle. Dave has burn etched the canary wood whorl with his signature leaf motif. This supported spindle weights 47 grams.
These reproductions of medieval spindles were made by Eadric of Ironwood Pottery (the whorls) and Miguel of Spanish Peacock (the shafts). Since I had been attempting to handcarve my own shafts (and doing a poor job) I am delighted to have a few turned ones with suitable whorls. Usually when I buy Eadric’s work, I sit down and interrogate him as to the time and place of each reproduction I am buying, but I forgot to do this with these purchases.
This was taken while the spindle was in motion. It is actually a more kelly green than this, but hey, flashes do kooky things to color. I love this spindle. It's a little heavier than my other spinsanity spindle, and the bottom of the spindle on this one is rounded, instead of pointed, which is cool.
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My spindles.
The rustic one in the back is from the spinning class I took. The teacher teaches a lot of kids, and needs cheap & easy spindles for them.
These spindles pull the cotton off the stalk and it is forced thru a shoot and into the basket on top of the cotton picker.. sooo cool!
Today I was going to do the walk I got wrong last week so I set off from home down the Cuckoo Trail to the Old Station at Hellingly and then along the roads to Magham Down then all footpaths to Cowbeech Hill ending up at Rushlake Green and then back home. It was a total of 19 miles and I saw very few people I had a really great day with odd little bits of rain but so much to see and so quite a few images from trees and deer to helicopters and Alpacas and the Cattle and houses. My longest walk to date but it's not easy to work out final distance from flat maps.
Maple spindle gall is the trees reaction to the mite insect (Vasates aceriscrumena). Spindles are a bit over 1/4" in length. The spindles begin green and turn red or tan as they age. Despite their dramatic appearance this is mostly a cosmetic issue and not a threat to tree health.
Dave's signature leaf motif has been burn etched around the edges of the notched hard maple whorl of this beautiful drop spindle. The top of the whorl has been adorned with his rose and leaf motif. The overall length of this spindle is 9 inches, and it weights 1.3 ounces. A brass hook has been added to the purpleheart shaft.
Bought Bosworth Mini Spindle and it's just superb! I really love it!
Purpleheart whorl with Birch shaft, 23g (.8oz)
holly/bocote spindle from Spanish Peacock - .6 oz (16 gr.)
bird's eye maple/walnut from Kundert - 1.4 oz.
The bit at the bottom is the Turnigy 550 watt motor fitted to the lump of 1.5" alloy bar, bored out to take the bearings etc. The spindle (in the middle) is an ER16 collet chuck. The bit at the top with the wires is the electronic speed controller for the motor. It's rated at 40 amps.
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The Feb challenge was "New Beginnings"... I saw people talk about spring colours and earth colours, but other people focused on technique or personal beginnings.