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The Palm
Collection
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Sabal palms typically
weather wind storms
pretty well; this S. maritima
didn't do so
well, though.
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The large Corypha
umbraculifera that was re-stood and staked after Hurricane Katrina
lost its head (L), while its partner was felled during Wilma (R).
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Leaf damage to Elaeis
oleifera in the Lowland Palmetum (L)
and Dypsis decaryi (R) in the Snapper Creek Hammock area.
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An example of a felled tree.
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A Veitchia arecina
specimen snapped in mid-trunk.
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Root ball (L) and
infructescence (R) of an 80+ year old Corypha taliera that
fell. This palm was a Robert Montgomery original. It had been flowering
for more than a year, and its seeds were not yet ripe.
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This Acrocomia aculeata
was blown over,
but it should recover after being
re-stood and staked.
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This Caryota rumphiana
was not so lucky; it will not survive this fatal injury.
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At least two large Bismarckia
nobilis palms were decapitated; the "head" of the palm on the left
was literally wrapped around a neighboring royal palm (Roystonea
regia).
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This used to be a nice Syagrus
botryphora grove. This is apparently not a good species for
hurricane-prone areas!
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This oak tree had been propped
back up after Katrina, but it fell again, destroying the shade
structure that was built to protect the Chamaedorea palms underneath.
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Huge Arenga pinnata
felled.
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Fronds stripped off royal
palms.
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Amazingly, the coconut palms
on the left and the foxtail
palms on the right were completely undamaged.
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The Nursery
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The cycad shade house lost its
shade.
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Newly installed ground cloth
was destroyed in the full-sun nursery.
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Most plants in the nursery
were toppled, but nearly all of them will be just fine.
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