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Palms of the World  By: James C. Currach A reprint edition hardcover published by Horticultural Books in 1970 Green cover boards with gold writing to the spine & front cover, binding is tight & strong, bookplate on back of front cover, no dustjacket Postage within South Africa R50.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation ETHNIE  

Palms for South African Homes and Gardens  By: Lynn Lawler A first edition softcover published by the author in 1985 Picture cover boards are agecoloured & rubbed, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions Postage within South Africa R40.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation Abe #  

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The Indigenous Palms of Southern Africa By: Hein Wicht A limited edition nbr 64/1000 hardcover published by Howard Timmins in 1969 Cream cover boards with black writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, foxing to front & rear flyleaves, dustjacket is complete with agewear, nick & tear. Postage within South Africa R30.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postage Quote

Genera Palmarum A Classification of Palms Based on the Work of Harold E. Moore Jr. By: Natalie W. Uhl & John Dransfield A first edition hardcover published by The Palm Society in 1987 Green cover boards with gold writing to the spine, rub to spine top, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, dustjacket is mostly complete, loss to top right of spine. Postage within South Africa R50.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postage Quote

The Indigenous Palms of Southern Africa By: Hein Wicht A limited edition nbr 720/1000 hardcover published by Howard Timmins in 1969 Cream cover boards with black writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, foxing to fronmt & rear flyleaves, dustjacket is complete clean & bright, a nice copy Postage within South Africa R50.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation ETHNIE  

  The Foxtail Palm is endemic to a very small part of Australia, originally decorating the boulder-strewn, exposed gravel hills of the Cape Melville range, wholly within the Cape Melville National Park. Flowering: White flowers stalk that comes from the base of the crownshaft. Foliage: Variance of greenish colours; deep green to light green colours. Received its more commonly known Australian-English name from the appearance of its foliage, which is in a shape of a foxs tail. Fruits: 2 inches long. Olive green to green in the early stages. Orange red when ripe. Trunk: Similar to the king palm, the foxtail palm trunk is smooth, thin, and self-cleaning. It grows a single, double, or triple trunk that is slightly spindle-shaped to columnar reaching heights of about 30 ft. The trunk also has a closely ringed, dark grey to light gray colour which slowly turns more and more white. The crownshaft of the foxtail palm is light to bright green and slightly swollen at the base. After it became known to the world, the Foxtail Palm's seeds were so highly sought after that a thriving black market trade formed, with illegal collectors nearly decimating the in situ populations. The species propagates readily in cultivation and this ultimately reduced the pressure on the wild population. It has become widely distributed across the world, being progressively planted out as one of the "world's most popular" palms.   Please familiarise yourself with the shipping info below Shipping Rates are as listed below Approximate processing and transit times are listed below PLEASE NOTE THAT WE DO NOT SHIP OUTSIDE OF SOUTH AFRICA  

  Dictyosperma is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the palm family found in the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean (Mauritius, Runion and Rodrigues). The sole species, Dictyosperma album, is widely cultivated in the tropics but has been farmed to near extinction in its native habitat. It is commonly called princess palm or hurricane palm, the latter owing to its ability to withstand strong winds by easily shedding leaves. It is closely related to, and resembles, palms in the Archontophoenix genus. The genus is named from two Greek words meaning "net" and "seed" and the epithet is Latin for "white", the common colour of the crownshaft at the top of the trunk. The ringed trunks are solitary at 15 cm in diameter with a slight bulge at the base, occasionally reaching up to 12 m in height. The crownshaft is over a meter tall, swollen at the base, and covered in white wax which has given the palm its epithet album and small, matted brown hairs, producing a rounded leaf crown 4.5 m wide and 3 m tall. The 2.5 to 3 m leaves are borne on short 30 cm petioles; the arching leaflets are pointed at the apice, from 60 90 cm, dark green in colour, and emerge from the rachis in a single plane.  On flowering, they produce up to six inflorescences which ring the trunk below the crownshaft, branched to one order, with white to yellow flowers, which are male and female; both pistillate and staminate flowers have three sepals and three petals, the former being smaller than the latter. The ovoid fruit ripen to purple or black in colour, containing one brown, ellipsoidal seed.   Please familiarise yourself with the shipping info below Shipping Rates are as listed below Approximate processing and transit times are listed below PLEASE NOTE THAT WE DO NOT SHIP OUTSIDE OF SOUTH AFRICA