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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
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!
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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!
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