PALMS & CYCADS Magazine

No. 135, April - June 2017

Contents this Issue

• Australian Philip John MacMahon (1857-1911) and the Palm Collection in the old Brisbane Botanic Gardens - John Leslie Dowe

• Sabal antillensis - A new palm from the Dutch West Indies - Mark Wuschke

• Depictions of Palms on Coins II - Ancient Carthage - Mark Wuschke

• Palm Oil App for you Smart Phone - Stuart Marckson

 

Front Cover: Tropical Cyclone Debbie devastates North Queensland.
 

No. 134, January - March 2017

Contents this Issue

• Australian Plant Communities at Brisbane Botanical Gardens Mt. Coot-tha - Stuart Markson

• A Survey of Syagrus Hybrids - Kelen Pureza Soares

• PACSOA Annual Show 2017 - Mark Wuschke

• The Palm Paintings of Augustus Earle - Mark Wuschke

• A Revision of Syagrus - Mark Wuschke

• Philippines Bans Cutting of Coconut Palms - Arnando Reyes

 

Front Cover: The Australian Plant Communites Lake at BBG, Mt. Cootha. It is lined with Bangalow Palms and other swamp lovers.
 

No. 133, October - December 2016

Contents this Issue

• The Vanishing Queen Palms of Brisbane: is the Reign Over? - John Leslie Dowe/Mark Wuschke

• Outstanding Gardens in the Mackay - Whitsunday Region - Hans Querl

• Will and Margaret Kraa Retire

 

Front Cover: A viewing looking up into an historic avenue of Cocos palms (Syagrus romanzoffiana) at Toowong Memorial Park, Brisbane.

 

No. 132, July - September 2016

Contents this Issue

• Palm Grove National Park - Mark Wuschke

• Ravenea louvelii - Mark Wuschke

• The Palms of Canada – Part 3 – Calgary Zoo - Mark Wuschke

• Tell Us About Your Coconuts!

 

Front Cover: Mt. Tamborine rain forest

 

No. 131, April - June 2016

Contents this Issue

• Review of Cultivated Ptychosperma - Mark Wuschke

• Maroochy Bushland Botanic Gardens - Heather Knowles

• Cycads in Chapel Hill - Mark Wuschke

• Gardens by the Bay - Carmen Forster

• Rhapidophylum in Cultivation - Will Kraa

• New AQIS Website

 

Front Cover: Ptychosperma furcatum
 

No. 130, January - March 2016

Contents this Issue

• Memoriam - Ailsa Boyden (1939-2016)

• Dioon planifolium - A new Cycad from Mexico - Mark Wuschke

• Walter Hill’s palm collection at the Brisbane Botanic Garden, 1855-1881 - John Leslie Dowe

• The Palm Collection of New Farm Park - Mark Wuschke

 

Front Cover: Dioon planifolium
 

No. 129, October – December 2015

Contents this Issue

• Review of the palm collections in the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney and the Wollongong Botanic Gardens - Garry Daly

• The CYCAD 2015 conference in Colombia - Nathalie Nagalingum

• Memoriam – Leo Gamble

 

Front Cover: Pinanga coronata
 

No. 128, July – September 2015

Contents this Issue

• Observations of cycads in Central Queensland, their habitat and conservation status - Trevor Meers

• A Survey of Ecuadorean Palms from the Southern Montane Forests to the Tropical Amazon - Garry Daly

 

Front Cover: New flush of growth on female Cycas ophiolitica. Photo: Trevor Meers
 

No. 127, April – June 2015

Contents this Issue

• Climbing Mt Gower, March 05 2015 - Troy Donovan

• Further observations of rainforest Cycads in SE Queensland - Trevor Meers

• The Methuselah Palm – 10 Years On

• Palms on Coins

• The Date Palm in Ancient Assyria - Mark Wuschke

 

Front Cover: Hedyscepe canterburyana atop Mt. Gower, Lord Howe Island. Photo: Troy Donovan
 

No. 126, January – March 2015

Contents this Issue

• The Queens Park Botanic Gardens, Toowoomba - Heather Knowles

• The Palms & Cycads of Canada – Part 1 – Calgary - Mark Wuschke

• The Palms & Cycads of Canada – Part 1 – Calgary - Mark Wuschke

• More Tell Us Your Horror Story!

• Memoriam Dr. John Price (1931 – 2014)

 

Front Cover: The Cycad Garden at Queens Park Botanic Gardens, Toowoomba. Photo: Heather Knowles
 

No. 125, October–December 2014

Contents this Issue

• Madagascar – Short Explorations in Tried and True Places of Interest - Gary Daly

• Observations of Rainforest Macrozamias in SE Queensland - Trevor Meers

• Tell Us Your Horror Story! - The Readers

 

Front Cover: Marojejy insignis, detail of inflorescence, Marojejy National Park, Madagascar. Photo: Gary Daly
 

No. 124, July–September 2014

Contents this Issue

• Costa Rica – Palms in the Neotropics - Gary Daly

• A new species of Welfia from Peru - Mark Wuschke

• Mackay – the City of Palms - Keith Boyden

• My Cyrtostachys renda - Keith Boyden

 

Front Cover: New leaf of juvenile Welfia regia. Photo: Gary Daly
 

No. 123, April–June 2014

Contents this Issue

• Pollination in Cultivated Cycads - Will Kraa

• A Palm Paradise in the Tropics - Fred & Jeanette Birkbeck

• Show Us Your Lipstick - Fred & Jeanette Birkbeck, Rudy Meyer, Ray Lawler, Jean-Charles Guex

• Memoriam – Loran M. Whitelock (1930 – 2014)

 

Front Cover: Naturally pollinated Zamia integrifolia ripe cones at Will Kraa’s garden.
 

No. 122, January–March 2014

Contents this Issue

• The Urbenville Bangalow - Daryl O’Connor & Wal Donovan

• The Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra – Cycads And Other Things - Heather Knowles

• Garden Pests – Feral Deer - Mark Wuschke

 

Front Cover: A group of Bangalow palms Archontophoenix cunninghamiana, near Urbenville, NSW. Note the unusual dark coloured crownshaft and upright leaves.

 

No. 121 - October–December 2013

Contents this Issue

• Borneo Revisited, Part 2 – Sarawak - Hans Querl

• The Palms of Vienna - Mark Wuschke

• The Seaforth Sabal - Keith Boyden

• A Survey of Dioon - Heather Knowles

 

Front Cover: Licuala orbicularis, one of the stunning palms found in Sarawak’s national parks. Photo: Hans Querl

 

No. 120 - July-Sept 2013

Contents this Issue

• Borneo Revisited Part 1: Brunei - Hans Querl

• Cycads In Italy - Mark Wuschke

• The Cycad House at Kew - Mark Wuschke

 

Front Cover: Korthalsia sp. rattan palm, at Ulu Temburong National Park, Brunei. Photo: Hans Querl

 

No. 119 - April-June 2013

Contents this Issue

• PACSOA Excursion to Brisbane Botanic Gardens - Heather Knowles

• Going Walkabout in the Territory No. 7. Cycas calcicola - Keith Boyden

• Going Walkabout in the Territory No. 8. Cycas angulata - Keith Boyden

• Who Says You Can’t?

• The Not-quite-Lost palm of Rodriques Island - Mark Wuschke

 

Front Cover: The elegant blue leaves of the African cycad Encephalartos princeps, at Mt. Cootha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane. Photo Heather Knowles

 

No. 118 - January–March 2013

Contents this Issue

• Palms & Cycads of Manorina - Mark Wuschke

• Never Give Up on a Cycad

• Sabal minor - Will Kraa

• What Ever Happened to… The Majestic Palm - Mark Wuschke

• PACSOA Annual Show – 2013 Review

• Fasciated Cones in Cycas revoluta

 

Front Cover: Majestic Australian Cabbage Palms (Livistona australis) and Bangalows (Archontophoenix cunninghamiana) at Manorina, D’Aguilar National Park, Queensland. Photo Mark Wuschke