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Title: Palm Tree colours
Post by: Argonor on March 21, 2009, 01:04:03 PM

I've been wondering...

Is it so that in humid climates, palm tree trunks are greyish, and in dry/desert climates they are yellowish brown?

Or am I completely wrong?

Title: Re: Palm Tree colours
Post by: itchy on March 21, 2009, 01:38:16 PM

 just text my friend who works at local botanical gardens ,apparently its not that simple but he says check here 

http://palm-trees.org/

its explained there ?

Title: Re: Palm Tree colours
Post by: Argonor on March 21, 2009, 01:54:38 PM

Hmmm... I'll have to read this through to get to grips with that..... A nice resource, that webpage!

Thanks!

Title: Re: Palm Tree colours
Post by: Ray Rivers on March 21, 2009, 02:13:38 PM

My feeling was that in a tropical rain forest they would be brownish.

So that is why I painted them brown.  I also tanned up the edges, but that was more artistic license to give the palms some depth, more than anything else.

Title: Re: Palm Tree colours
Post by: Argonor on March 21, 2009, 02:40:23 PM

Quote from: Ray Rivers on March 21, 2009, 02:13:38 PM

My feeling was that in a tropical rain forest they would be brownish.

So that is why I painted them brown.  I also tanned up the edges, but that was more artistic license to give the palms some depth, more than anything else.

Yeah, I think people should paint their trees as they like - I just try to understand where and when the trunks have/get the different colours in real life.... I have sometall  Pegasus palms of the other type painted, and I went for a greenish grey for the trunks - I'm just not sure if that's appropriate for desert..... I'm not sure if that kinsd of palm should even grow in North Africa or it it is native to the Carribean and/or the American continent...

Title: Re: Palm Tree colours
Post by: Ray Rivers on March 21, 2009, 02:46:58 PM

Personally...

I don't think it is so important.   :)

Title: Re: Palm Tree colours
Post by: itchy on March 21, 2009, 04:01:37 PM

same here i have dozens of trees that have been hidden behind on almost every battlefield from gettysburg to culloden and middle earth to japan, and i have a few palms for pirate games and ww2 pacific, its hard enough getting the uniforms right never mind the flora lol

Title: Re: Palm Tree colours
Post by: Argonor on March 21, 2009, 04:39:10 PM

No, I do use those trees for the Harad desert - as I wrote, I was just wondering...  ;)

Title: Re: Palm Tree colours
Post by: marianas_gamer on March 23, 2009, 01:34:18 AM

Personally, I think  that it comes down to what you are comfortable with.  Since I live in the Pacific and often work in the jungle I am sensitive to tropical vegetation in my wargames and all of my many palms have grey highlighted trunks (except for two that I bought from Grimm).  To me dark brown trunks can be jarring, maybe sort of like yellow painted pine trees would be to those who live in northern climes.
LB

Title: Re: Palm Tree colours
Post by: Ray Rivers on March 29, 2009, 05:55:35 PM

Not to kick a dead horse here...

But a friend of mine named Pedro, who authored the book PALMERAS: MORFOLOGIA, CULTIVO Y REPRODUCCION (https://www.laislalibros.com/libros/PALMERAS/L0982000145/978-84-282-1430-8) dropped by my cafe today and I took the opportunity to ask him about the color of palm tree trunks.  He told me that of the more than 3,500 species of palm trees, brown is a very common color.  So also is yellow, green and gray.

The "traditional" grayish palm trees folks are so used to seeing at beaches and seaside resorts are planted, he told me, because they have a life span of 2 to 300 years.