Vida del Mar Manzanillo Mexico

Wow! Those are some incredible Ravenala madagascariensis (Traveller's Palms)! I've never seen any that large here in San Diego. They do get this tall in Hawaii, though.

Those Ixora coccinea hedges are pretty magnificent, also!

Manzanillo has tropical climate Delonix1. Very hot and humid. It is on the coast.

Yes, I know the climate, even though, I've never been there. Traveller's Palms are native to Madagascar. They can grow to more than 100 feet in their native habitat.

without the leaves they would look like garden rakes!! :))

:-)

Those are spectacularo! I saw a photo of one in a pot with 3' of clear trunk and those paddle leafs- just perfect miniature of those in your photos. There were 2 of them in a multi million dollar home with a bank of windows in soucal's coast.
With enough light,anything makes a nice houseplant, I guess.

They grow outside in Southern California pretty well. They just typically grow about half the size.

The largest ones here in San Diego have trunks of 15' tall...not 25 or even 40 feet tall like they grow in the tropics.

Interesting too? In California,they tend to a fan of 10-2 on a clock face. Tropical Travelers can be 9-3pm.
I might try one . Years ago on the palm board? A member had a young one in a gallon pot. I almost ordered one myself off the net.
He posted that thing last month,and it was huge. It must have grown a full trunk foot per year since 2006.

I know that they wouldn't grow like that here...but any "resemblance" to the real thing is good enough.

I have seen some very full ones here in San Diego and other areas of Southern California.