49 Palms Oasis in Joshua Tree National Park, California
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- čas přidán 4. 03. 2022
- The 49 palms oasis is a native California fan palm (Washingtonia filifera) oasis in the Mojave Desert, located in the northwestern part of Joshua Tree National Park.
One of my favorite palms,very nostalgic for me, was one of the first palms I bought.
That's so cool, yes one of my favorites as well, I just love them! And the oases where they grow are stunning. Thanks for watching!
THIS IS MY FAVORITE PALM IN THE WORLD.
Love it! They are so amazing!
Great video, thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much, yeah that place was so cool, those oases are amazing and the palms are so beautiful. Thanks for watching!
That is stunning! They look so natural in thar setting. But thank you! Someone else realizes that golf courses are a huge waste of water, like nothing against those who play golf, but golf courses are unsustainable in an arid climate like California. It's no wonder there's no water in California and lake mead is in record low levels.
Yeah seeing these palms in the wild in those oases is just incredible, they’re so stunning and look amazing against the backdrop of the desert mountains. Yes golf courses are a HUGE waste of water, especially in places like California, Nevada, and Arizona, which are under extreme drought and have extreme water insecurities. Thanks for watching and take care!
Really neat stuff!
Thanks, yeah it was so cool to see, I LOVE these palm oasis ecosystems in the middle of the desert, incredible.
So beautiful! But all I can think of is OMG SNAKES SNAKES SNAKES, as you walk along.
Yes it was gorgeous, haha LOL, yeah there are lots of snakes out there but thankfully I didn't come face to face with any. Cheers!
@@palmplanet Thank god! 😂
@@uranusneptun5239 Haha yes, probably better for me and the snakes that we didn’t come into contact, LOL.
@@palmplanet At least it would have made a cool viral video LOL! 😂
@@uranusneptun5239 Haha yes that's true, I definitely would have filmed it, that would get a ton of views, LOL.
There is a wasintonia palm that has picked up a lot of seeds and sprouted a lot at home.
That’s awesome, the seeds that I collected from another oasis out in the desert sprouted as well and are now seedlings. Keep us updated on yours! Thanks for watching and stay tuned for more videos, take care!
Never seen anything like it. Thanks for showing us!
It's an amazing place, such a cool and important ecosystem and those palms are gorgeous. Thanks for watching!
I remember in of the couple times I’ve been to Florida you usually see more robusta than filifera because they grow better but when I was at a rest stop there was a an Atleast 20 foot tall filifera
Yeah robusta are more wet-tolerant, they do better in Florida, but that said filifera still do well and there are tons of big ones there, as well and countless filibusta. Generally robusta is more common in cultivation, in California too, but out in the desert there is more of a mix in cultivation with lots of filifera as well. Cheers!
Brother you move to quick. Please stay on one object for 20 sec or longer when you are doing voiceover as this will increase your views and place you closer to professional development Insha'Allah. Nice work all in all. Thank you
Sorry about that, I will work on my camera skills, check out some of my recent videos. Thanks for watching!
I witnessed me first self grown fan palms in Woodland Ca recently . Had to go seed hunting . They are now sprouting thinking of throwing some around my town.. but I know ppl will pluck em 😭 . Fk it
Wow that's awesome, yeah lots of palms in that area. Go for it, it can't hurt to try, and I bet you at least some of the seedlings will avoid being plucked and grow into big palms, you should do it. Thanks for watching and stay tuned for more videos, take care!
Senseless you always find a was to destruct.golf course in the desert to drain the water below
Yes very sad that all the golf courses and development, plus of course largely agriculture, use up so much water, it drains the water table as you said and dries up the palm oases, a real shame.
Why does it actually scare me that filifera oasis could possibly go extinct in the direction were going, I don't think the palm would go extinct because of the growers around the world but naturally grown filifera oasis not existing anymore would be so sad. I also have a fear of pure filifera and robusta getting lost because of filibusta
Wow, I'm so glad I'm not the only one, I have the exact same worries, I actually think about it a lot. Yes the extreme drought in the Southwest combined with lower aquifer levels due to pumping for agriculture, cities, and, yes, gold courses (that really infuriates me, wasting precious water in the middle of a drought-stricken desert to have a lush green golf course) sadly may end up leading to the death and drying out of many of these oases, and unfortunately it's happening already, with many oasis showing signs of drought stress and some with almost entirely dead palms, it is so sad. Yes hopefully some of the larger and/or more remote oases will remain in wetter areas where they receive more water, or if we actually get a grip on climate change we can try to mitigate and reverse the long-term effects of this further desertification. If that area continues to dry out as it is currently I suspect that we may see W. filifera's range shift further west towards the coast, where it is wetter. As for the hybridization, I also worry about that. Although I actually like Washingtonia x filibusta a lot as an ornamental, my worry are stray robusta seeds from cultivated palms making their way into wild filifera oases, hybridizing, and completely messing up the gene pool. Unfortunately it's happened already in a few oases in Southern California. Hopefully some oases will manage to persist despite the challenges and hopefully the more remote ones will stay pure and can avoid hybridization so that we still have pure filifera. I have a number of pure filifera seedlings that I germinated from seed I collected at the 1,000 Palms Oasis in the Coachella Valley, they are the real deal, no hybridization. I wanted to get seed right from the source as many palms sold as filifera are actually hybrids, and that problem will only worsen as more and more robusta and filifera hybridize. Thanks and take care!
@@palmplanet I would love to give pure filifera a try here in NC, We do have an awesome filibusta here and I really do like that hybrid because it's more likely to survive in my 8A area than a normal filifera being that it's too humid and wet in the summer and winter, I'm sure you've seen it on palm talk of that amazing filibusta that I'm hoping it has the perfect genetics for my area because that washie has been here for more than 16 years from what I can physically note, and I believe it seeded for the first time at the end of last year, probably in October, but I really hope robustas and filibustas don't make it into the oasis's, I'll be so upset if I don't get a chance to see one for myself one day in its pure form or alive in general, I really dislike goft courses. We had a couple in my area, but they have all shut down and have turned back into natural fields and parks. I hope we can get a update on your seedlings soon! 👍😎
@@ZPalms Yeah I bet it would do well. Yes exactly, filibusta is best for those marginal climates, there is a huge one in Fayetteville, NC which I think you were mentioning, that is certainly marginal, and some in Virginia Beach. Yes the one in Fayetteville has seedlings all around its base, there are people on Palmtalk that are growing its seeds, that's one tough Washy! That said there is also what appears to be a pure filifera on the Outer Banks not far from the Virginia line, so they can definitely make it there. Yes I dislike golf courses as well, especially in the desert where they just waste all the water and drain the aquifers that keep the oases alive, killing all the palms and with them the whole ecosystem. I'm glad to hear that. Yes I will do an update soon, they've grown a lot, Washys are super fast growers. Thanks!
This is where I would want to get palm seed because they are actually in their purest form, and not hybridize like in most California! Nothing about California that really makes me angry Except. They have an abundance of ocean water that they can create freshwater from. They claim that it's too expensive to do that BS. If they can do everything else that is expensive in California turn the saltwater into freshwater and then their water problem will be solved.
Yes this is the purest of pure filifera seed, I collected seeds from the other oasis I went to a few months back and they're good sized seedlings now, Washy seedlings grow super fast. Yeah I agree, the drought is devastating and only getting worse. They actually have 12 desalination plants along the California coast, with one in Carlsbad, San Diego that is the largest in the Western Hemisphere, and more are proposed. The problems with the plants are the immense amount of energy required and the large quantities of salty brine waste left behind, but I totally agree they are the best solution to the state's drought and are the future of California's water infrastructure. Thanks and take care!
No robusta palms show up there yet just pure washingtonia filertria palms.
Nope, despite the number of robusta planted in Southern California they mostly just naturalize by the coast where it's wetter, inland in the desert where it's drier they have a harder time becoming established and rarely show up in wild Washingtonia filifera groves. I love Washingtonia filifera, seeing them in the wild is amazing!
@@palmplanet yep even Arizona and las Vegas Less show up. Me too and they like some moisture area. Yep natural groove is best.
@@frankiemeyer8372 Yes exactly right. Yes the desert setting with the mountains as the backdrop for the palms is gorgeous.
@@palmplanet yep cheers
@@frankiemeyer8372 Cheers, thanks Frankie!