RHH's photos with the keyword: fan palm

The California Fan Palm is native to the deserts of southern California and Baja California. It keeps its dead fronds for a long time and they form a "skirt" around the palm that provides a habitat for birds and other creatures. The "skirt" of dead fronds also leaves them vulnerable to the action of idiots like the man who set many of the palms at this oasis, Fortynine Palms in Joshua Tree National Park, on fire. The skirt of this young palm reaches to the ground.

The California Fan Palm is native to the deserts of southern California and Baja California. It keeps its dead fronds for a long time and they form a "skirt" around the palm that provides a habitat for birds and other creatures. The "skirt" of dead fronds also leaves them vulnerable to the action of idiots like the man who set many of the palms at this oasis, Fortynine Palms in Joshua Tree National Park, on fire. On these older palms the bottom of the "skirt" has disintegrated.

The California Fan Palm is native to the deserts of southern California and Baja California. It keeps its dead fronds for a long time and they form a "skirt" around the palm that provides a habitat for birds and other creatures. The "skirt" of dead fronds also leaves them vulnerable to the action of idiots like the man who set many of the palms at this oasis, Fortynine Palms in Joshua Tree National Park, on fire. The skirt of this young palm reaches to the ground.

The California Fan Palm is native to the deserts of southern California and Baja California. It keeps its dead fronds for a long time and they form a "skirt" around the palm that provides a habitat for birds and other creatures. The "skirt" of dead fronds also leaves them vulnerable to the action of idiots like the man who set many of the palms at this oasis, Fortynine Palms in Joshua Tree National Park, on fire. The skirt of the young palms reaches to the ground.

Fortynine Palms is an oasis in the desert on the north side of Joshua Tree National Park. We hiked to the oasis the first morning of our stay in Joshua Tree and discovered that the oasis is a pleasant stand of palms in a rocky canyon.

These are some of the California Fan Palms at Fortynine Palms Oasis in Joshua Tree National Park. We hiked to the oasis the first morning of our stay in Joshua Tree.

These are some of the California Fan Palms at Fortynine Palms Oasis in Joshua Tree National Park. We hiked to the oasis the first morning of our stay in Joshua Tree.

This is the oasis we hiked to, Fortynine Palms, the first morning of our stay in Joshua Tree National Park. It is on the north side of the park and a separate entrance. The palms are California Fan Palms and some of them are burnt, the result of some idiot setting them on fire a shortly before we were there.

While visiting the Cape Tribulation area we enjoyed the Mardja Botanical Rainforest walk, a short walk through the mangrove forests along Oliver Creek. These fallen Fan Palm fronds caught my attention near the end of the walk.

Photographed along the Marrdja Botanical Rainforest walk in the area of Cape Tribulation, these palms are magnificent. We had traveled from Port Douglas to the area of Cape Tribulation and spent a day there exploring this remarkable place where "rainforest meets reef."