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PalmenGarten Fern Blatt

Topic Categories: Frankfurt through My EyeImage of the DayMy PicturesNaturePhotographyTravel
Posted on: March 10, 2010 2:59 PM, by "GrrlScientist"

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Fern Blatt.

PalmenGarten, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Image: GrrlScientist, 24 February 2010 [larger view]

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Your Central Houston fan club thinks you have a superb photographic eye.

Posted by: biosparite | March 10, 2010 7:34 PM

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Wunderschön.

Posted by: Greenpa | March 10, 2010 7:56 PM

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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

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