Konrad Wothe / Fan Palms (Licuala ramsayi) in rainforest, Daintree National Park, North Queensland, Australia, October

Konrad Wothe / Fan Palms (Licuala ramsayi) in rainforest, Daintree National Park, North Queensland, Australia, October

Konrad Wothe / Looking up through the canopy of Fan Palms (Licuala ramsayi) in rainforest, Daintree National Park, North Queensland, Australia

Jouan & Rius / View up through Palm trees in swamp forest, Borneo, Sarawak, Malaysia

Alex Hyde / Lined Leaf-tailed Gecko {Uroplatus lineatus} showing darker nocturnal colouration, camouflaged amongst dead palm fronds. Masoala Peninsula National Park, north east Madagascar.

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Date palm {Phoenix dactylifera} looking up at the ripening dates, Muscat, Oman

Anup Shah / Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) juvenile female 'Joya' aged 6 years using rocks as tools to crack open palm oil nuts, Bossou Forest, Mont Nimba, Guinea. December 2010.

MYN / Seth Patterson / Anacua tortoise beetle (Coptocycla texana) Sabal Palm Sanctuary, Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA, September. meetyourneighbours.net project

David Kjaer / Chinese Water Dragon (Physignathus cocincinus) on palm leaf, captive

Hiroya Minakuchi / Palm leaves in rainforest, Costa Rica

Konrad Wothe / Red Lored Amazon Parrot (Amazona autumnalis) on palm leaf. Captive. South America.

Konrad Wothe / Buffon's Macaw / Great Green Macaw (Ara ambigua) on palm leaf. Central America.

Piotr Naskrecki / Modjadji Cycad (Encephalartos transvenosus) young leaves, Modjadji Cycad Reserve, South Africa

Rob Tilley / Travelers Palm (Ravenala madagascariensis) leaf detail. Maui, Hawaii, February.

Piotr Naskrecki / Ferocious Blue Cycad (Encephalartos horridus) leaf, South Africa

Pete Oxford / Huaorani Indian woman making a shigra. Shigras are hand-knotted bags made from a fibre extracted from a palm leaf. The fibre is dryed and sun bleached before being rolled into sting for either bags or...

Nature Production / Japanese Fern Palm (Cycas revoluta) leaf, close-up

Kevin Schafer / Licuala Fan Palm (Licuala ramsayi) leaves, Licuala State Forest, Mission Beach, Queensland, Australia

Kevin Schafer / Licuala Fan Palm (Licuala ramsayi) leaf, Licuala State Forest, Mission Beach, Queensland, Australia

Chien Lee / Fan Palm (Licuala orbicularis) leaves, Kubah National Park, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Fan Palm (Licuala bintulensis) leaves, Similajau National Park, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Pete Oxford / Single Palm leaf used to make basket by the Macushi people in an Amerindian village, Savannah, Rupununi, Guyana, August 2008

Konrad Wothe / Licuala Fan Palm (Licuala ramsayi) in forest, Mission Beach, North Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Konrad Wothe / Licuala Fan Palm (Licuala ramsayi) fronds, Mission Beach, North Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Konrad Wothe / Licuala Fan Palm (Licuala ramsayi) frond and leaf shadow, Daintree National Park, North Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Konrad Wothe / Licuala Fan Palm (Licuala ramsayi) fronds, Daintree National Park, North Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Konrad Wothe / Licuala Fan Palm (Licuala ramsayi) forest, Daintree National Park, North Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Konrad Wothe / Licuala Fan Palm (Licuala ramsayi) forest, Daintree National Park, North Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Konrad Wothe / Licuala Fan Palm (Licuala ramsayi) fronds, Daintree National Park, North Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Konrad Wothe / Licuala Fan Palm (Licuala ramsayi) fronds, Daintree National Park, North Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Konrad Wothe / Licuala Fan Palm (Licuala ramsayi) leaves, Daintree National Park, North Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Konrad Wothe / Licuala Fan Palm (Licuala ramsayi) group in rainforest, Daintree National Park, North Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Pete Oxford / Golden Palm Tree Frog (Dendropsophus ebraccatus) peeking through leaf, northwest Ecuador

Tim Laman / A man processing 'Sago' the primary staple food on Waigeo Island. First the pulp of the Sago Palm tree is gathered. The starch is then extracted by water filtered through a sieve of coconut palm leaf...

Tim Laman / A man processing 'Sago' the primary staple food on Waigeo Island. First the pulp of the Sago Palm tree is gathered. The starch is then extracted by water filtered through a sieve of coconut palm leaf...

Tim Laman / A man processing 'Sago' the primary staple food on Waigeo Island. First the pulp of the Sago Palm tree is gathered. The starch is then extracted by water filtered through a sieve of coconut palm leaf...

Tim Laman / Processing 'Sago' the primary staple food on Waigeo Island. First the pulp of the Sago Palm tree is gathered. The starch is then extracted by water filtered through a sieve of coconut palm leaf cover,...

Tim Laman / A man processing 'Sago' the primary staple food on Waigeo Island. First the pulp of the Sago Palm tree is gathered. The starch is then extracted by water filtered through a sieve of coconut palm leaf...

Alex Hyde / Lined Leaf-tailed Gecko {Uroplatus lineatus} showing darker nocturnal colouration, camouflaged amongst dead palm fronds. Masoala Peninsula National Park, north east Madagascar.

Alex Hyde / Lined leaf-tailed gecko {Uroplatus lineatus} hunting invertebrates amongst leaves of Pandanus palm {Pandanaceae} at night. Masoala Peninsula National Park, north east Madagascar.

Pete Oxford / Palm leaves used for thatch by Macushi people, Yupukari Village, Rupununi, Guyana

Adrian Davies / Paper Wasp (Polistes sp.) at nest in Palm leaf. Everglades, Florida, USA

Murray Cooper / Palm (Arecaceae) leaf abstract, Amazon, Ecuador

Ingo Arndt / Travelers Palm (Ravenala madagascariensis) frond, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Territory of Australia

Ingo Arndt / Travelers Palm (Ravenala madagascariensis), Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Territory of Australia

Juergen Freund / Stalk eyed fly (Diopsidae) resting on palm leaf, Philippines

Piotr Naskrecki / Modjadji Cycad (Encephalartos transvenosus) male cones, Mkambati Nature Reserve, South Africa

Piotr Naskrecki / Modjadji Cycad (Encephalartos transvenosus) young female cones and new leaves, Modjadji Cycad Reserve, Limpopo, South Africa

Juan Carlos Munoz / Silvered langur {Trachypithecus cristatus / Presbytis cristata} in palm tree, Labuk Lake sanctuary, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

Konrad Wothe / Salai-pathi (Licuala peltata) leaves, North Andaman Islands, India

James Christensen / Striped Yellow-eared Bat (Vampyressa nymphaea) trio roosting in palm tree, Panama

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Giant Strangler Fig (Ficus aurea) and Woka Palms (Livistona rotundifolia), Tangkoko Batuangus Reserve, Indonesia

Juergen Freund / Looking up through the leaf canopy of Australian fan palm (Licuala ramsayi) Australia

Martha Holmes / Detail of palm leaf, back lit.

Albert Lleal / Palm (Washingtonia sp) leaf, Spain

Nick Garbutt / Leaf tailed gecko {Uroplatus lineatus}, palm and bamboo forests near Maroantetra, Madagascar

Ingo Arndt / Palm Leaf showing midrib and veination, Yavari River, Amazon Basin, Peru

Ingo Arndt / Palm Leaf showing midrib and veination, Yavari River, Amazon Basin, Peru

Martha Holmes / Boys in dugout canoe in rain with palm leaf used as umbrella, Papua New Guinea

Pete Oxford / Chambira palm leaf strands drying - used to make hammocks & bags, Llanchamacocha Ecuadorian Amazon

Christian Ziegler / Red-eyed Tree Frog (Agalychnis callidryas) egg clutch under palm frond overhanging pond, Soberania National Park, Panama

Nick Garbutt / Lined Leaf tailed Gecko {Uroplatus lineatus} walking along Pandanus / Palm vegetation, Eastern Madagascar.

Philippe Clement / Barred / Splendid Leaf Frog (probably Cruziohyla sylviae, formerly Cruziohyla calcarifer) resting on palm leaf, Costa Rica.

Philippe Clement / Barred / Splendid Leaf Frog (probably Cruziohyla sylviae, formerly Cruziohyla calcarifer) on palm leaf, Costa Rica.

Philippe Clement / Barred / Splendid Leaf Frog (probably Cruziohyla sylviae, formerly Cruziohyla calcarifer) on palm leaf, Costa Rica.

Pete Oxford / Eyelash palm pitviper (Bothrops / Bothriechis schlegelii) silhouetted behind palm leaf. Esmeraldas, Ecuador.

Juergen Freund / Detail of travellers palm leaf {Ravenala madagascariensis} Queensland, Australia

Fabio Liverani / White bats roosting under palm leaf {Ectophylla alba} Tortuguero NP, Costa Rica

Pete Oxford / Tropical leaf frog on palm leaf {Phyllomedusa tarsius} Amazonia, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Tropical leaf frog defensive posture {Phyllomedusa tarsius} Amazonia, Ecuador

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Tiger-striped Leaf Frog (Phyllomedusa tomopterna) or Barred Leaf Frog, portrait, side view, South America

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Red-eyed Tree Frog (Agalychnis callidryas) portrait with palm fruit, rainforest, Costa Rica

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Eyelash Viper (Bothriechis schlegelii) on palm leaf over stream in rainforest, Costa Rica

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Green Palm Viper (Bothriechis lateralis) camouflaged on palm leaf, Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Leaf Beetle (Alurnus sp) in the rainforest, portrait, side and top view, Costa Rica

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Fer-de-lance (Bothrops asper) snake, venomous snake coiled on palm leaf in rainforest, Costa Rica

Norbert Wu / Peters' Tent-making Bat (Uroderma bilobatum) roosts under palm leaf, peels fig before eating, rainforest, Panama

Norbert Wu / March's Palm Pitviper (Bothriechis marchi) silhouette of venomous snake through leaf, tropical rainforest, Costa Rica

Norbert Wu / Peters' Tent-making Bat (Uroderma bilobatum) roosts under palm leaf, peels fig before eating, rainforest, Panama

Mark Moffett / Red Palm Weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) larvae in leaf cooked by Kutapae family, Hala, Papua New Guinea

Phil Savoie / Eyelash viper, pale form on palm leaf {Bothrops schlegeli} Costa Rica

Martha Holmes / Detail of palm leaf - back lit.

Doug Wechsler / Tropical rainforest understorey with palm leaf Rio Napo Ecuador

Dietmar Nill / Tent building bats (Uroderma bilobatum) in palm leaf. Panama, Central America

Pete Oxford / Coconut crab on palm leaf, Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles

Onne van der Wal / Local children playing in the small village of Matantas, Vanuatu, Pacific Islands. ^^^ Most houses in the village are made of split bamboo and sago palm leaf roofs.

Onne van der Wal / Local children in the small village of Matantas, Vanuatu, Pacific Islands. Most houses in the village are made of split bamboo and sago palm leaf roofs.

Onne van der Wal / Local man sitting in front of his home in the small village of Matantas, Vanuatu, Pacific Islands. Most houses in the village are made of split bamboo and sago palm leaf roofs

Christian Ziegler / Leaf Beetle (Speciomerus giganteus) emerging from Palm (Attalea butyracea) seed, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Piotr Naskrecki / Cardboard Palm (Zamia furfuracea) leaves, Mexico

Dietmar Nill / Tent building bats {Uroderma bilobaturm} roosting under palm leaf in rainforest, Panama

Juan Carlos Munoz / Silvered langur {Trachypithecus cristatus / Presbytis cristata} in palm tree, Labuk Lake sanctuary, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

Juan Carlos Munoz / Silvered langur {Trachypithecus cristatus / Presbytis cristata} in palm tree, Labuk Lake sanctuary, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

Roberto Rinaldi / Young boy wearing palm leaf headdress and decorations for traditional feast, with young girl behind, Yap, Micronesia.

Roberto Rinaldi / A white sandy beach viewed through palm leaf fronds, Lighthouse Reef Resort, Belize