Use the "optional link URL" to post the URL of the photo, and call it something like "link to coconut photo" in the "name of link" field. That should work just fine.

IF you want to post the actual photo in this thread so it shows up as a picture in your post use the HTML. Do NOT use the periods I placed withi the link. Take ALL of the periods out as I only placed them there so you could see the HTML tag. <.img. scr.='.".then' put the url of photo here between quotation marks.> and that should make your photo show up like the photo below. Just remember to take OUT all of the periods i placed in the code, and to place your photos URL (internet address/ link address) between the quotation marks, instead of what I have typed there. Where there is still an extra space between the periods after you remove them, leave that space in the HTML code that is left.

Thats my baby windmill BTW... it has a 1 full new leaf now, 1 thats 1/2 way open, and 1 thats still a "spear" since that photo was taken on June 3rd. =o)

you can join a site like photo bucket and you can place the link in the post and it will open with your message. Here is a A.alexandrae triple

here goes...

Here is a link that might be useful: palms to be identified

Palm 2 is Adonidia merrillii.

Palm 1 I believe is a Veitchia. Not sure which species though.

thanks very much steve. i'll try and do some search on Veitchia to see which species it is. cheers.

wow, adonidia and veitchia look very much alike. adonidia merrillii is synonymous to veitchia merrillii ???

They are always changing these genus names. Originally Adonidia merrillii was Adonidia merrillii. Then it was changed to Veitchia merrillii. I still see them marked in stores this way. Then it was changed back to Adonidia merrillii. Go figure. Wild and crazy taxonomy guys.

As a matter of fact, some of the thrinax species were renamed just recently. Thrinax morrisii (keys thatch palm) is now Leucothrinax morrisii. Thrinax ekmaniana is now Hemithrinax ekmaniana.