Thank you to a new contributor today, Morabeza79@Flickr for today's photograph. I highly recommend visiting the original posting (and this related one) for Morabeza79's accompanying write-up. He also has a set of 150 (as of today) palm photographs.
As noted by Morabeza79, this is IUCN Red List vulnerable species (VU B1+2c). It is endemic to Madagascar, where it can be found in only 2 to 5 lowland rainforest localities (IUCN states 3 localities). The number of total individuals in the wild is approximately five hundred.
Few photographs of the species in the wild are available online, but here are two of the same individual plant: Orania ravaka via Palm and Cycad Societies of Australia, and Orania ravaka from the commercial rarepalmseeds.com site.
Woohoo! Welcome, Jacob!
Nice photo, and thank you for working to save this species.
Very interesting photo.
How interesting . I like the detail in the Photograph.
Each day I learn more and more.
Thank you,
Margaret-Rae
Beautiful Pic :) Im setting some land aside for growing a few rare species of plants for the public to enjoy :) Ive got a naturally green thumb and have studied Botany to identify plant problems and rectify the situation if a problem arises.Most are in movable containers so they can be moved to a greenhouse in the winter months where they get tender treatment and alot of attention so far have a zero failure rate.Hope to add pictures soon :) Mark, Happy Gardening :)
yeah thats tite, nice photo.