Monday

A surprising Semi-Tall Red variety from Tarawa, Kiribati

When surveying Tarawa, we met several occurrences of a surprising kind of semi-Tall variety bearing red orange fruits. This variety could be useful to create new seed gardens, and particular to inter-plant with Green Kiribati Tall, or a green Dwarf. We provide here some detailed pictures about this variety. This is sure this is not a Dwarf, as the picture under well illustrate it: the semi tall is on the left side, and very close is planted a Kiribati Green Dwarf with thin stem and no bole (on the right side).

Stems of a Red Semi-Tall (left) when compared
to the stem of Kiribati Green Dwarf (right)
(1.359310° 173.155632°)
Same Red Semi-Tall than in the upper picture
(1.359310° 173.155632°)
Same Red Semi-Tall than in the upper picture
(1.359310° 173.155632°) 

Another Red Semi-Tall located at
(1.364643°  173.133018°)

Stem of the same Red Semi-Tall located at
(1.364643°  173.133018°)
A very nice young palm located at
( 1.384187° 173.137045°)