RHH's photos with the keyword: palm

This photo was taken at Cottonwood Springs in Joshua Tree National Park. Cottonwood Springs is an oasis from which we began our hike that day to another oasis, Lost Palms, and to Mastodon Mountain and its mines. The hike was not in an area like this but in the desert.

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.

The cold rainy weather we've had has made me nostalgic for tropical Australia. This was the beach at Cape Tribulation and it was winter there when the photo was taken! Wish I was back.

The beach north of Cape Tribulation. We walked the beach for a long distance but did not swim - there were signs warning of crocodiles.

These were photographed near the guest house in which we stayed in Port Douglas, Australia. They are all stems of the same kind of palm, though of different ages, the palm being the Red Sealing Wax Palm, Cyrtostachys renda. This palm is also known as the Red Palm, the Rajah Palm and the Lipstick Palm and though native to Thailand, Sumatra, Malaysia and Borneo, is a popular ornamental plant in areas where it will grow.