PRICKLY Palm

Spring is a season of renewal and growth. This close focus photo of a Sago Palm Tree (that really isn’t a palm it is a Cycad) shows a combination of cotton like substance surrounded by a cluster of PRICKLY thorns about a finger length each that protect new palm fronds. I had to touch the thorns to see if they were soft or not, they were not.

7 thoughts on “PRICKLY Palm”

lsvejda April 25, 2011 at 12:24 pm

Those prickly thorns look like they could do a great deal of damage.

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Steven April 25, 2011 at 7:39 pm

Ouch! Such pain in the center of softness.

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jackscrap April 25, 2011 at 8:24 pm

Nasty looking thorns!

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Gisele April 25, 2011 at 9:02 pm

I could have told you they weren’t soft and spared you the pain 🙂

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Ellen April 26, 2011 at 12:46 am

Nice contrast between soft and sharp. Such very old plants, they could have evolved those thorns to keep dinosaurs away.

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KarenAnn April 26, 2011 at 10:04 pm

Looks wickedly sharp!

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investment advisors May 1, 2011 at 12:11 pm

That looks painful!

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