When I first became aware of these elegant trees, I was totally enchanted by their exotic "chandeliers" of flowers, on coral-like stems, so was not surprized to learn that they were named as the King of Palms:






These ivory or magenta flowers are succeeded by wonderful cascades of brilliant red berries:






I love their bright, lime green crownshafts, speckled with reddish-brown:


And eventually the brown overtakes the green...

Palm trees may not be as environmentally indispensable as many other trees (after all, they are officially PLANTS rather than trees) but to me they are certainly visually indispensable...
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Fascinating shapes and colours.
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