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Bactris gasipaes
It is a palm which can typically grow to 20 m or taller, with pinnate leaves 3 m long on a 1 m long petiole. The fruit is a drupe with an edible pulp surrounding the single seed, 4–6 cm long and 3–5 cm broad. The rind (epicarp) of the wild palm's fruit can be red, yellow, or orange when the fruit is ripe depending on the variety of the palm.
Tropical climate Cairns, Australia.
Unfortunately it’s not a peach palm, I’ve been on the lookout for these in cairns. I just went past and had a look, the base is connected to many others of the same palm which is not present in the peach palm.
Great group effort - that is one dangerous looking tree! According to what I read the palm nuts are a favorite and people have a method for climbing that tree to get them. Ouch!
Ahh! Yep, this is definitely it Cynthia.
Thanks everyone for such great effort! :)
The ring on the trunk indicates a palm tree so I searched spiky palm trees and got the above link to the Pejibaye Palm. Let me know if this is it!
I'm thinking in going to my high school this week and search for that tree and ask the biology teacher, maybe we are talking about different trees.
It looks like a tree I've seen in Costa Rica. I don't have a picture uploaded here yet, but I'll take a look through my photos and see if it's similar enough.
Nope, not a Wait-a-while. I went and looked through my Queensland photos and found one; it's here: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/554...
From what I can remember it had large, shady palm leaves, however it didn't branch off until the top. Also, the trunk is at least a foot in diameter (the photo makes it hard to tell). So it probably wasn't a wait-a-while.
Does it have palm leafs? Because the spikes make me think of wait-a-while trees.
Haha. I like the name untouchable trees, I've walked into them a couple of times when trying to take photos.
These trees have a thin trunk about 15 feet high and a lot of branches and foliage at the top, so they might be the same.
We have them too! I got pinched twice in high school, we used to call them untouchable trees, but I'm not sure if it is the same, it was smalled, but maybe it wasn't that old or something. I'm gonna ask for it common name.
Spotted on Mar 13, 2010
Submitted on Mar 13, 2011
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