Spectators will be impressed not only by the action on the sea but by the giant boulders and wild palms strewn along this rugged coast.

The house is on a property, which was called Izotitlán, meaning "izotes" a type of wild palm to make hats.

Larry confides to the actress Dana Delany, "You know, I'm known to have wild palms myself."

He toppled on his side and saw out over the bumpy sand, out to a point of land where wild palms, in silhouette against a vivid purple sky, shook their fronds like plumed African dancers, writhing up, ecstatic.

The Palm Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) began in 1984, and has performed a series of three studies to find basic information on the status of palms in the wild, use of wild palms, and palms under cultivation.

An 1880 description said the village was enclosed, with wild palms that produced inedible dates but had useful leaves and branches.

Many species of birds feed on this wild palm, notably macaws, parrots and parakeets, all members of the family Psittacidae.

Harvesting of many non-cultivated or wild single-stemmed palms results in palm tree death (e.g. Geonoma edulis).