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john_ny
11-02-2011, 07:15 AM
Can anyone help identify? I think this first one might be Mexican Petunia.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46629&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46629)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46630&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46630)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46631&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46631)

A ginger?
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46632&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46632)

Steve L
11-02-2011, 07:47 AM
The first picture is a Ruelllia, Mexican Petunia. Considered very invasive in the south. Can't help you with pictures number 2 and 3, but the 4th picture is a Curcuma ginger. Commonly called "hidden ginger". Maybe Curcuma Petiolata which is a very common ginger in the south. Some curcumas bloom in the spring and some bloom in the fall. That might narrow it down a little but there are so many curcumas that look alike. it's hard to tell.

Steve

Yug
11-02-2011, 03:01 PM
No.3 looks like a date palm.

Dangermouse01
11-02-2011, 04:13 PM
#2 looks like what is called a "popcorn cassia".

DM

orinoko
11-02-2011, 04:43 PM
Iwill go with Date Palm,

Nice it is too...very!

:0517::0517:

kentiopsis
11-02-2011, 04:44 PM
The palm in the foreground is a Phoenix species. Hard to say what species because there are a lot of them, but it looks like it might be P. dactylifera. Phoenix is also known to hybridize readily, so that could be a hybrid of unknown parents.

The palm in the background, right, looks like it might be a species of Washingtonia. There are two species, but I can't tell which that one it is.

Ken

kentiopsis
11-02-2011, 04:46 PM
I should have said that Phoenix dactylifera is the date palm; other people have identified it as a date.

Ken

Gardener972
11-02-2011, 06:04 PM
The 2nd one is cassia alata.

john_ny
11-02-2011, 06:51 PM
Thank you. That picture was taken at the Leu Botanical Gardens, in Orlando

RobG7aChattTN
11-02-2011, 07:55 PM
That Phonenix could be dactylifera, sylvestris, or dactylifera x sylvestris.

Darkman
11-05-2011, 05:48 PM
That Phonenix could be dactylifera, sylvestris, or dactylifera x sylvestris.

I don't think it is a sylvestris as they have yellow/orange boots. See the color on the top boots in this picture.

<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=33152&perpage=24&ppuser=7611><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=33152&size=1 border=0></a>

No color on this one.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46631&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46631)

palmtree
11-05-2011, 10:47 PM
That date is definitely a hybrid, looks like a bit of dactylifera in it.

Second pic is a nice Cassia Alata

Last pic looks like a Curcuma of some type (AKA Siam Tulip or sometimes hidden ginger).

Nice pics! Thanks for sharing!