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"Walking Tree" of Costa Rica. Is it Makainki ?????
In article 4cqNa.1716$7e.1643@fed1read07, wrote...
I was in the jungle of Tortuguero in north east Costa Rica, and was shown some trees that they called Walking Trees. They stood up in the air on their roots and actually could move a little distance each year. I believe they said their name was something like "Makainki" but I cannot find that word. Can someone tell me the proper name for the Walking Tree in Costa Rica? Didn't recall the name "walking tree", but lots of trees in CR and elsewhere do form stilt roots. Searching for "walking tree" finds a few sites with pictures but no scientific names: http://www.robjensen.com/month_featu...es/costa19.jpg http://www.chenry.com/PhotoAlbum/Cos...3/P0000160.JPG http://www.worldexperience.com/pv.ht...0&FileType=jpg might all be palms with large stilt roots. I recall _Iriartea_ species and Socratea species as both being like this. http://www.rachaelvanfleet.com/maste...ica/costa.html looks like an Socratea-type palm to me. http://llk.media.mit.edu/projects/eThinking/tree.html doesn't give a name. http://jajhs.kana.k12.wv.us/amazon/question.htm#ques1 asks your same question, but is just told that there are many trees with stilt roots. The "walking tree" in http://www.photo.net/cr/walking-tree-chantal.jpg isn't a palm, and I doubt it can "walk" http://www.trentu.ca/biology/TEWebPa...dplantlist.htm lists both Iriartea and Socratea species as "walking palm" http://www.strayreality.com/mystery1.htm briefly describes Costa Rica's "walking palms" [Socratea and Iriartea species] http://www.plantapalm.com/vpe/photos...exorrhizae.htm looks about right. http://hk.geocities.com/alhy731/trf/plants.htm http://bio.bd.psu.edu/biobd497g/Cost...tsandtrees.htm : "Walking Palm Socratea durissima" Okay, then. http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/treat/geonom.html has this to say: "Iriartea deltoidea is a widespread and familiar canopy palm, characterized by its dense cone of blackish, spiny stilt-roots and pinnately compound lf.-blades with "fish-tail" shaped, praemorse lflts. disposed in various planes. These features distinguish it from all other Costa Rican palms except for the related and vegetatively very similar Socratea exorrhiza. Close at hand, adult specimens of Iriartea may be told from S. exorrhiza by their darker, more numerous, and more densely aggregated stilt roots [...]" [Wet forests, 0--800 m; entire Atl. slope, Pac. slope vic. Palmar Norte (Fila Retinto) to Pen. Osa. Fl. 1--5, 11--12]. "Socratea exorrhiza is a canopy or subcanopy palm, recognized by its tall, open cone of brownish, spiny stilt-roots and pinnately compound lf.-blades with broadly cuneate, praemorse, longitudinally splitting. lflts., with the segments disposed in various planes. These features distinguish it sharply from all other Costa Rican palms except for the very similar and sympatric (though perhaps more widespread) Iriartea deltoidea, which differs in having a denser cone of blackish stilt-roots [...] [Wet forests, 0--750 m; Atl. slope Cords. Central (to RNFS Barra del Colorado and PN Tortuguero) and Talamanca, Pac. slope V.de El General, Golfo Dulce region. Fl. 2--3. Extr. SE Nic. to Bol., Fr. Guiana, Braz.] So, both species may be near Tortuguero. The ones with larger, looser-spaced lighter-colored stilt roots http://www.rachaelvanfleet.com/maste...ica/costa.html would be the Socratea palms, the ones with denser, darker stilts like http://www.robjensen.com/month_featu...es/costa19.jpg should be the Iriartea palms. Hope this helps. cheers |
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