Let us first salute the Royal Palm (Roystonea regia), so aptly named, its elegant plume of long fronds set against the blue sky and tossed by the wind into gracefully languorous poses.
In Havana, on the lovely boulevard in Miramar.
How splendid this colonnade of Royal Palms, unparalleled trees to which I will return to show their age-old bonds with Cuban peasants.
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Marie-Victorin (Itin?raires), JBM
The royal palm, Cuba's national tree.
Marie-Victorin and Brother L?on explored the area around Havana.
The extraordinary abundance and the extreme density of Royal Palms in Cuba's cultivated plain appear to be the effect of a lengthy hominization of the country.
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Photo: C?cile Fugulin, JBM
The smooth trunks, impeccably vertical, rise everywhere.
Royal palms still reign.
Under the Cuban Sun with Marie-Victorin [Jardin botanique de Montréal]
Last Update: 2014-06-18
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