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Fern Blatt.
PalmenGarten, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Topic Categories: Frankfurt through My Eye • Image of the Day • My Pictures • Nature • Photography • Travel
Posted on: March 10, 2010 2:59 PM, by "GrrlScientist"
tags: PalmenGarten, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, flower porn, nature, environment, image of the day
Fern Blatt.
PalmenGarten, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Comments
Your Central Houston fan club thinks you have a superb photographic eye.
Posted by: biosparite | March 10, 2010 7:34 PM
Wunderschön.
Posted by: Greenpa | March 10, 2010 7:56 PM
This appears to be one of the fishtail palms from the genus Caryota, and I'm thinking it might be Caryota gigas (syn. C. obtusa), the Giant Fishtail Palm, endemic to Burma and Thailand, so it would have been up to about 20' tall...?
Posted by: David Hilmy | March 10, 2010 8:04 PM