The Central Palm and Cycad Society meeting on 12/14/2015 featured a trip to Bok Tower Gardens and a visit to a private palm collection in Winter Haven. One of the few native palms was most distinctive: A variegated cabbage palm…
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Bluestem at Bok
The Central Florida Palm and Cycad Society met at Bok Tower Gardens on 12/12/2015, and Karen Schuster (Class of 2009), John Kennedy, Bob Montanaro (Class of 2005) & Janice Broda very much enjoyed the meeting. Click here to see the…
Well-used Sabal & More Meanderings
Well-used is the way that Karen Schuster (Class of 2008) described this cabbage palm (Sabal palmetto) that she photographed on our walk on the stout boardwalk at Spoonbill Marsh on 11/7/15. Woodpeckers are likely among the critters that have called…
“Porcupine” Palm
A specimen needle palm (Rhapidophyllum hystrix) is pictured above in a photograph taken by Karen Schuster (Class of 2009) at Harry P. Leu Gardens at the Florida Wildflower Symposium on September 26, 2015. Also known as porcupine palm, this slow-growing…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 