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'In her prime': Rare blooming of palm trees in Rio
Talipot palms bloom once in 40-70 years, producing up to 5 million fruits this season before dying, with seeds collected to replace aging trees, experts said.
- In Rio de Janeiro, several talipot palms planted some six decades ago by Roberto Burle Marx are blooming for the first and last time at Aterro do Flamengo park and the Botanical Garden.
- The talipot palm's lifecycle explains the event, as it flowers only once late in maturity and begins to die after fruiting.
- Marcus Nadruz said the inflorescences unfurled in October and the palms can produce up to five million fruits, with the flowering-to-fruiting cycle spanning about a year.
- After fruiting, the parent palms will begin to die, and the Botanical Garden will collect seeds to cultivate replacement seedlings for public landscaping.
- Some visitors traveled from Sao Paulo to see and photograph the bloom, with Deborah Faride saying `I was born in 1961, so she's my age and in her prime`.
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