Pritchardia pacifica in habitat

[chris.oz]

The Age newspaper featured these photos from a bay in the Lau Group.

This is in the Fulaga Lagoon.

Note these palms are growing in dead coral....... dont believe Pritchardia dont like limestone.

Pritchardia mitiaroana also grow in coral

Shots of some other small palms:

[chris.oz]

Hey,

looking at these closely, maybe I misidentified. These are probably P thurstonii

[Daryl]

Judging by the inflorescences I'd say you are correct about the P.thurstonii Chris!

[Zeeth]

Very cool! It's no wonder that P. thurstonii does well in South Florida.

[Xerarch]

So it turns out that these aren't P pacifica, but I was already confused upon seeing the thread title because my understanding was that the origin of P. Pacifica is ambiguous, like maybe it's a hybrid of unknown origin or it is only known from cultivation and is not found "in habitat". Anyone care to enlighten me?

[chris.oz]

Yes sorry, I misidentified them when I posted them hence the wrong title , then I had close look at the inflors and because they are so long..... probably the easiest Pritchardia to identify and I muffed it even when in photographed in habitat ... LOL

What really attracted me in the first place was where they were growing. Clearly they dont mind lime and salt at all

[Al in Kona]

Thanks Chris, nice pics and I love Pritchardia thurstonii. They are used in landscaping here in Kona but P. pacifica are used even more.

[Kim]

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[JasonD]

Thurstonii really catches the eye with that club-like inflorescence and modest size.

[colin Peters]

Very cool shot. It shows just how hardy Pritchardia can be.

aloha

[Oliver K.]

This is an awesome picture, Chris. I wish I had a bigger format version to use it as a desktop wallpaper...