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All three are territories of Saab Island, which is a large island nation just off northwestern Australia.
Madison Reef is a part of an archipelago of 25 islands and reefs which surround a lagoon, collectively known as the Madison Islands. It's similar to many of those Pacific atolls. Madison Reef itself is a small sand and coral island, covered in coconut palms and other tropical palms, includiing the Saabetto Palm, one of the awesomest palms in the universe and endemic to Saab Island and its territories.
The main population center is actually on the much larger Medway Island, which measures about 15km long and 2-5km wide. The area is an awesome diving location, with hundreds of coral and marine species.
Medway Island also features an airport with a 8000' runway and offers turboprop flights to Mackenzie and Matilda Bay and a 737 flight to Sabtown.
It's an island nation?
Trying to stay away from Australian politics/tax?
Madison Reef sounds pretty.
What's Matlock Atoll look like?
You've GOT TO draw/photoshop us an image of a "Saabetto Palm" please!
Love gardening and palm trees.
When I tried imagining the most amazing "palmetto" (fan-palm)
I pictured fans as big as those large patio-table umbrellas with the hand cranks at the mast...
You know the one's that spread to about 8 feet in diameter.
I saw a lot of neat fan palms in Puerto Rico,
but I never learned their names.
One of my favorite fan-palms is the "chinese fan-palm"
because it has bold colour-contrasts;
bright green and bright yellow, with glossy-brown "saw teeth" covering the stalk.
When I tried imagining the most amazing "palmetto" (fan-palm)
I pictured fans as big as those large patio-table umbrellas with the hand cranks at the mast...
You know the one's that spread to about 8 feet in diameter.
I saw a lot of neat fan palms in Puerto Rico,
but I never learned their names.
One of my favorite fan-palms is the "chinese fan-palm"
because it has bold colour-contrasts;
bright green and bright yellow, with glossy-brown "saw teeth" covering the stalk.
By "Chinese Fan Palm" do you mean Livistona Chinensis or Trachycarpus Fortunei?
They are both called Chinese Fan Palm but Trachycarpus is more likely to be called Windmill Palm. They look very similar to each other except that Trachycarpus has loose rope like fibre around the trunk whereas Livistona doesn't. Here are some pics.
By "Chinese Fan Palm" do you mean Livistona Chinensis or Trachycarpus Fortunei?
They are both called Chinese Fan Palm but Trachycarpus is more likely to be called Windmill Palm. They look very similar to each other except that Trachycarpus has loose rope like fibre around the trunk whereas Livistona doesn't. Here are some pics.
What I had in mind is more like Livistona Chinensis.
Here's a pic of a close-up on what I "think" is a chinese-fan palm:
Cool.. I think that could be a Livistona for sure... hard to tell.
Believe it or not, they can be grown in a few sheltered locations here in BC.. not in Vancouver though... just on some of the Gulf Islands like Saltspring and Saturna. Many fan palms are typically a lot hardier than their feather palm cousins... they can take quite a few degrees of frost.
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