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Old 07-07-2003, 02:44 PM
Iris Cohen
 
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Default "Walking Tree" of Costa Rica. Is it Makainki ?????

Has anyone looked in AGRICOLA? BRBR

After asking that, I looked myself. There is one article available on stilt
roots in tropical palms.
Further searching revealed that the best-known species of the tropical stilt
rooted palms are
A HREF="http://www.pacsoa.org.au/palms/Iriartea/deltoidea.html" Iriartea
deltoidea/A.
and A HREF="http://www.pacsoa.org.au/palms/Socratea/exorrhiza.html"PACSOA -
Socratea exorrhiza/A

There is no mention anywhere of any of these trees "walking", so the whole
thing may be a myth, like the deadliness of the Upas tree.
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
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Robert Lowell (1917-1977)