History of the discovery of native American palm trees The
William Bartram, the famous botanist and explorer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was commissioned by the English aristocrats to collect, identify and record the animal and plant life growing in the English colonies. The English colonies were acquired from Spain after the Spanish colonies were conquered and abandoned to the English. John Bartram, father of William Bartram, accompanied by his son on several early, exploratory missions, and his father helped to obtain financial sponsorship of William Bartram on his exploits interesting but dangerous in the country of Indians, alligators, snakes and bears. Bartram lived in the wild throughout most of the time in the jungles U.S. The comfortable living among the Indians, and even the homes of settlers who found him a fascinating guest. The English settlers have generously opened their doors Hospitality === him drink and eat him and treat him locally and physically with herbs and medicinal remedies, when several occasions, he became mortally ill or injured. Native Bartram discovered many unknown birds and exotic native plants that he identified for the first both in his writings. William Bartram called "pompous palms of Florida in his book, Travels, page X. Bartram wrote "the pompous palms of Florida, and magnolia glorious strikes us with a sense of dignity and magnificence.
William Bartram in his book, Travels, page 59, says he left the island St. Simon, Georgia, and vividly described on his departure, "many curious vegetable productions, especially Corypha Palma", or "Grand palmetto. Corphya pumila, repens Corypha … … spinosa (Dwarf Saw Palmetto), Corypha obliqua, caudice Arboreo adscendente ", the latter being identified a mystery and today still unknown. Bartram used three terms to identify the Sabal Palm, (Sabal palmetto), palm "cabbage great" 'Corypha Palma ", and" pumila Corypha. "Bartram found" Corypha repens, which is a dwarf palm, Serenoa serrulata, and "spinosa (Dwarf Saw Palmetto), "today called, Sabal minor, which is also a synonym for" obliqua Corypha. Sabal palm trees is adopted State Tree in Florida and South Carolina.
From furtherest the southern tip of Saint-Simon, William Bartram, reported seeing a distant house and firm and he said "This delightful house was situated amid a large grove of oaks and palms, near the beach Bay. Travels, page 58.
Travel Cuscowilla Bartram to northern Florida, he wrote, Travel, page 113 ,…" palm trees here seem to be a different kind of tree sprouts, their straight trunks are sixty, eighty or ninety feet high with a beautiful candle, a brightly colored ash, until within six or seven feet high, where she is a beautiful green, crowned with a star of the rich Green Leaves feathers: I measured the stem of these plumes fifteen feet in length, besides the plume, which is roughly the same length.
William Bartram discovered evolution, the primitive Zamia palm, now called Zamia pumila growing near Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 1773, indicating that "grows in open pine forests in tufts or clumps, a large conical strobili disclose its large coral red fruit which appears in the middle of a beauty only the deep green fern-like pinnate leaves. "Travels, page 160.
William Bartram identified the Spanish bayonet, Yucca aloifolia as a royal Palmetto "…. A very beautiful and unusual production. It may be called a tree, its durability and grandeur. "Travels, page 69.
About the Author
Patrick A. Malcolm, owner of TyTy Nursery, has an M.S. degree in Biochemistry and has cultivated palm trees for over three decades.
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