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Identifier: ornamentaltreeso00rock (find matches)
Title: The ornamental trees of Hawaii
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rock, Joseph Francis Charles, 1884-1962
Subjects: Trees--Hawaii.
Publisher: Honolulu: (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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, and reaches a height of about forty feet, and a diameter ofover one and a half feet. The trunk is naked, that is not clothedwith the bases of the petioles. The leaves are suborbicular and exceedingly large, wTith manysegments, and a petiole of seven feet in length. The spadix is muchshorter than the fronds, and branches three times, with the flowersdensely set. The flowers are relatively large; the black shinyfruits are the largest in the genus. They are obpyriform, the vertexis rounded, while the base is very pointed, and symmetrical. Theseeds are brown shining, globose and depressed. This species occurs as a native exclusively in the Bermuda Isl-ands but has been planted in gardens a great deal owing to itsbeauty and ornamental value. It is one of the most distinct speciesof the genus Sabal which possesses about eighteen species. It differsfrom Sabal palmetto in its large dimensions, short spadix and ob-pearshaped fruits. This species is much less common in Honolulu than Plate XI.
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Washingtonia robusta H. Wendl.Another species of Washington Palms in Ainahou, Waikiki. Palmae. 29 Sabal palmetto. One fairly good specimen can be seen in theCapitol grounds. Sabal Palmetto Lodd. Palmetto Palm.Plate XII. The genuine Palmetto reaches a height of sixty feet in its nativehome, begins flowering rather early, and has the trunk clothed withthe old fronds, the petiole of which, especially the broad base, isdivided into two divaricating parts. The leaves are suborbicular andhave many segments (about eighty). The spadix forms large panicleswhich are drooping when in flower and are reflex-curved when infruit. The fruits are perfectly spherical, slightly less than half aninch in diameter; the seeds are globose-depressed and hemisphericalin the upper part. The Palmetto is widely diffused over the United States extendingfrom North Carolina to Florida. It is cultivated in Europe andother subtropical countries. In Honolulu it is much more commonthan Sabal Blackburmana. The specimen h

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