Saturday, February 19, 2011

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Caryota urens

The name comes from the greek "karyotis" means that date, the adjective specific urens (stinging) but has Latin derivation and refers to the characteristic of the fruit juice contain a scalding to the skin.

E 'a palm tree originally from India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia, uncommon in Italy and difficult to fruiting. He erect, single, up to 30 m high, with annular scars left by fallen leaves.
The leaves are 3 to 6 m long, bipinnate, with cuneate leaves, toothed on the margins, which resemble the tail of a fish, the size of 9-10 cm and 10-20 cm x dark green.
Flowers are unisexual on monoecious plants, alternating branched inflorescences, apical, wrapped in two Spathes faired or fibrous edges.
The fruit, the size of a cherry, is rounded and dark red juice with pulp and cause burns to the skin.


Friday, February 18, 2011

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Brahea edulis chilensis

The genus name is dedicated to the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, the specific epithet refers to the possibility of being able to eat mature dates.

This palm is native to the island of Guadalupe, where he is in danger of extinction, was discovered around 1875.
E 'up to 12 m high, has a trunk diameter of 40 cm, wider at the base. The leaf has a stalk of about 1.5 m with margins serrated edges and prominent, in the attack on the barrel is covered with a thick reddish-brown fabric.
The lamina and palm with a radius of 1.5-2 m, concave top and divided into 70-80 segments and mid-green, stiff, about 3 cm wide and incised at the apex.
The inflorescence, with hairy Spata, is as long as the leaves or slightly less, branched (with 3 orders branches). The fruits are globose, mucronate, about 3.5 cm in diameter, the first green then yellow, then blacks and edible when ripe.
seeds which are the hardest I've ever work, especially because of the presence of a 'shield' protective only after 1 hour and more than polishing (electric, I dare not think of pedals) are beginning to reveal white exterior; even more special is the point of attachment of the petiole, botanically called a beak, forming a mass within the seed darker undetectable externally.