PalmenGarten Fern Blatt

By grrlscientist on March 10, 2010.

tags: PalmenGarten, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, flower porn, nature, environment, image of the day

Fern Blatt.

PalmenGarten, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Image: GrrlScientist, 24 February 2010 [larger view]

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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...?

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