Comments on: New Monster Palm Discovered

By: plant girl

plant girl — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:23:11 +0000

Simply beautiful. What a great find. I should go picnicking more. I also recall an article from the archives on the cow-eating tree of Madagascar. Fascinating!

I want to believe that there really is such a tree out there.

By: YourPTR!

YourPTR! — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:11:14 +0000

An amazing find. What with this and the new monkey found recently as well, 2008 is shaping up to be an excellent year already for new crypto discoveries!

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:00:10 +0000

I’m not much of a botany guy, but this is still exciting news especially considering the size of this thing. The amount of biodiversity that is still out there to be found is stunning. Cool to see an article here about “cryptobotany”!

By: sschaper

sschaper — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:42:39 +0000

If flowering kills it, how are the seeds produced? Is this a male flower at the end of life, after having produced female flowers for years?

By: Mnynames

Mnynames — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:36:50 +0000

Kittenz, the article I read said it could grow to 66 feet in height with 16-foot-long leaves…

By: Mnynames

Mnynames — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:35:24 +0000

I was just reading about this elsewhere, and they said that it pretty much looks just like any of several other palm species for up to 100 years, until it sprouts this “candelabra” (The article I read called it a “Christmas tree”) which flowers, and then it dies. Personally, I think that’s pretty cool.

A thought follows this, however. If such a unique tree can go unnoticed for so long, looking completely normal to most everybody, then perhaps the more peculiar vegetable cryptids (At least one of which is rumoured to live on Madagascar, I believe) operate on a similar basis. Maybe that completely ordinary looking stump in India WAS a man-eating tree when it was in its active stage…

By: kittenz

kittenz — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:46:16 +0000

I’d love to see someone standing beside this tree for scale so I could get a good visual grasp of its size.

By: maslo63

maslo63 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:45:15 +0000

If gigantic stationary trees are still being discovered perhaps there is hope for some of our animal cryptids as well.

By: noobfun

noobfun — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:56:10 +0000

a botanical elephant!!

gotta love that phrase

kind of adds a little more hope to all the cryptids smaller then an elephant in the rest of the world

By: Artist

Artist — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:17:53 +0000

I want one for my back yard, just above the waterfall!