migrants
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The Arrowsmith Phoenix Palms. Part 3. Partial Removals in Hastings
In part 2 we jumped forward 63 years from when Donald Arrowsmith took his photographs in various locations which happened to also have Phoenix palms. We considered four cases where the palms were no longer growing due to the consequences of development. Below we’ll consider the interesting case of Photograph 258 – Street Scene in…
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The Arrowsmith Phoenix Palms. Part 2 Sixty-three years later …
Unless affected by disease or pests, the Phoenix palm can live for 200 to 300 years. This means that even if the first plantings (late 1800s) in New Zealand were still growing they would still be relatively young. There is a strong chance that the oldest specimen would be in Auckland, not too far from…
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The Arrowsmith Phoenix Palms. Part 1. An Extraordinary Resource
It is well known that New Zealand has only one endemic palm, the nikau (genus Rhopalostylis with several species). It has come up in a few posts within this blog, but more commonly discussed have been Phoenix palms (Phoenix canariensis) and the Chinese fan palm (Trachycarpus fortunei). This weighting is not due to dislike of…
