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Tropicallvr
08-12-2008, 06:55 PM
Heading North East of Puerto Vallarta(the road past Home Depot), took a few shots of the Native palms Sabal rosei(short), and Acrocomia aculeata(taller)
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Then stopped shortly to look at some clumping bamboo-Rhipidocladum racemiflorum
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Then up a little higher into a less junglely area, more pastorial.
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Finally coming to our destination of a little village called San Sebastian, which was a French army outpost a few hundred years ago, but the soilders never left. It wasnīt reachable until a few years ago by auto. (not sure how they got the electricty up there though)
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Spotted some nice Hedychiums and some bananas(note the pine forest in the background, the town at about 4,500 ft elevation)
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Next I noticed some very large Bananas that looked lik they had alot of black and wax at the petiole axis.
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And one that didnīt get propped and seemed to loose alot of itīs color. It also appeared to have barely escaped choking on itīs bunch.
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Then spotted another varitey of Musa with a less choked appearence.
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Then heading east on the north edge of town.
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Then heading north out of town, a strange heavily scarred banana planted mixed with citrus, and coffee.
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Then directly behind that one another weird banana with undeveloped fruits, an only two flowers per bract (note the two undeveloped fruits in the rear)
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Then heading still further out of town with the mixed plants(bananas ect) left, and blue Agaves to the right. All the streets were out of stone, no pavement.
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Open area to the left with more bananas.
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Then a few more shots of the black petiole axis banana.
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With me out of focus for referance, but the others were alot taller in the other spot.
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And then after seeing another black fruiting I realized that the bunch coming out of the p-stem like that was most likey a trait, and not some sort of problem.
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Then it started raining buckets so we left before rock slides made the road unpassable.
Then stopped at the jungle elevation for a few more shots(between rain bursts) of the jungle around a creek before heading home.
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Then walked upstream through a long culvert following this blue guy, hoping I wouldnīt encounter any snakes or such in the dim light.
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Finally the nice shot of bamboo I was looking for displaying itīs beautiful cascading habit.
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Simply Bananas
08-12-2008, 07:03 PM
Great pics. Thanks. Makes me thirsty for Patron.

natedogg1026
08-12-2008, 09:23 PM
Wow, great pics. Thanx for sharing. So what's the scoop on this little town?

mskitty38583
08-12-2008, 09:27 PM
they are some great pics! thank tyou so much for posting them.

dablo93
08-13-2008, 04:16 AM
great pics, thanks for sharing this!

Bananaman88
08-13-2008, 06:15 AM
Thanks, Kyle! I'm hoping to make a little trip down to ole Mexico myself in another month or two...most likely to the Yucatan. Hopefully I'll encounter some bananas myself!

Dean W.
08-13-2008, 10:19 AM
Thanks for sharing the photos. Did you move there?

buzzwinder
08-13-2008, 11:36 AM
Great pics, Thanks for sharing! :bananas_b

Tropicallvr
08-13-2008, 11:39 AM
Thanks for sharing the photos. Did you move there?

Yeah I live about 2 hours towards the west of San Sebastian on the coast.

Natedogg- I don't know much about this town other than the little I've been told. It's starting to see a few tourists these days, since it is so close to Puerto Vallarta. They used to do alot of silver mining in the area, so there are quite a few out of house jewelry shops, with homemade jewelry.
It kinda felt a little weird walking through town since everything looked that same as it did hundreds of years ago. There were huge doors in front of places, and a smaller door inside the bigger door.
Here's the church with a door in a door-
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natedogg1026
08-13-2008, 10:04 PM
Wow, thas cool Kyle.