Official journal of the South African Palm Society
Editor: Adrian van Rensen
Volume 18 No1 Front page: Hyphena compressa in Singapore Botanical Gardens Back page: Euterpe precatoria in Bajo Calima, Columbia
Main stories: King of Kings, Garden of Margot Scheepers in Pongola
Palms of the Amazon by Bernhard Fischer
Whats new in Chamedorea by Adrian Van Rensen
Book Review " Cultivated Palms of the World" By Dr Piet Vorster
Phytelephas macrocarpa
Chelyocarpus by Adrian van Rensen
Madagascan Palms for Temperate Climates By Bernhard Fischer
Local Palm Scene: The Editors visit Froman`s Eden
A closer look at Trithrinax campestris
Volume 17 No 3 Front page: Trachycarpus oreophilus Back page: Attalea maripa
Main Story: Guests for Palm Trunks Lots of colour pictures of Platyceriums, Aroids
Orchids, Bromeliads etc that can be grown on palm trunks.
Palms of the Amazon by Bernhard Fischer
Local Palm Scene: Plant name plates
Palmetum News
Manicaria saccifera
Chamedorea stolonifera
e-mail: gato@iafrica.com
Vol 17 No 2 Front and back cover: Jubeaopsis caffra on Msikaba River - South Africa
Main Stories: - A glance through time - by Adrian van Rensen
- Palm Trees on the French Mediteranean Coast - by
Robert Pelissier
- Fruiting and flowering Palms in South African Gardens -
by Adrain van Rensen
- Bogor Botanical Gardens - Peter Wunderlin
Vol 17 No 1 Front cover: Cocothrinax spissa
Back cover: Pseudophoenix ekmanni
Main stories: - Paradies lost - about the Transkei Wild Coast
- Palms in the Small Garden - by Dan Louw
- The Mystique of Inkomba - about Jubeaopsis caffra
by Adrian van Rensen
- Whats new in Chamedoreas - by Adrian van Rensen
- Germinating seed by Troos van der Merve
- Mkambati, unique palms - unique place by
Bernard Fisher
- in Search of Syagrus: Seven Years later
by Adrian van Rensen
- Dominican diary - by Steve Trollip
Vol16 No 3 Front cover: Bactris caryotifolia in Rio`s Jardin Botanico
Back cover: Areca vestiaria
Main stories: - Fortaleza Palm Growers` Paradies - by Bernard Fischer
- Whats new in Chamedorea - by Adrian van Rensen
- Book Review of D. Hodels & JC Pintaud
" The Palms of New Caledonia" , review by Piet Vorster
- Seed Bank News - by Faan Boshof
- Chamerops a variable species - by Bernard Fischer
- The Palms in Spain grow mainly on the plain
by Andre de la Rey
- Raphia Palms
Vol 16 No 2 Front cover: Chamerops humilis var. glaucecens growing in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco Back cover: Licuala grandis in Singapore Botanical Gardens Main Stories: - Singapore Botanical Gardens - by Peter Wunderlin - Hard Bread Dates Breeding - by Pramond Dharmasakti - Whats new in Chamedorea - Part 2 - by John Dipnall - Whats new in Chamedorea - Part 3 - by Adrian van Rensen AGM 1999 - Book review of Donald Hodels " The Palms and Cycads in Thailand" review by Piet Vorster - Growing Socratea - by Peter Wunderlin - The Caryota gigas of Nan - by Adrian van Rensen
Vol 16 No 1 Front cover: Copernicia hospita at Nong Nooch Tropical Gardens Thailand Back Cover: Erect from of Dypsis lutescens in the Prasart Gardens, Bangkok, Thailand
Main Stories: - Sawasdee welcome to Thailand - IPS Bienieal 1998
by Peter Wunderlin
- Corypha taliera - Endangered Palm, extinct in the
wild - by Shri Dhar
- Nong Nooch Tropical Garden - by Rolf Kyburz
- Whats new in Chamedorea Part 1 - by Adrian van Rensen
- Palmetum News - by Andre de la Rey
Vol15 No 3 Front and back cover: An Amazon forest scene with Syagrus inajai
and Mauritia flexuosa near Rio Preto da Eva,
Amazonas, Brazil
Main Stories: - In search of Syagrus - the saga continues
by Steve Trollip
- Impression of the 1998 Congress - by Piet Vorster
- AGM 1998
- The Hardiest Palm - by Mark Glicksman
- Pretty in Palms - the story of our Palm T-shirt
by Alice Biemond
- Palmetum Report - by Troos van der Merwe
Vol15 No 2 Front cover: Parajubea torallyi in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Back cover: Marojejya darianii in Madagascar
Main Stories: - Pigafetta in South Africa - by Peter Wunderlin
- Basket weaving craft of Hyphaene petersiana
by Alice Biemond
- Lest we forget - a story of a good friendship
with the late Philippe Cremer - by Adrian van Rensen
- Parajubea in cultivation at Homestead - by Adrian
van Rensen
- The Trithrinax tussle - how many species are in the
genus?
Vol15 No 1 Front cover: Parajubea cocoides
Back cover: Pelagodoxa henryana in glass house Sidney Botanical
Gardens
Main Stories: - Palms in the Nederlands, by Martin Soest
- Cocos nucifera - how far from the equator can it
survive - by Steven van Staden
- Ornamental Palms - 1997 Symposium in Tenerife
by Steve Trollip
- Paradies lost - the silent destruction caused
by Porcupines by Steven van Staden