No, that's just the small flowers of the talipot palm falling and covering the ground. A musty-sweet smell is in the air. If you look close at a flower, you can see the six dark stamens that produce the pollen.
Telly is a Talipot palm (Corypha umbraculifera) living at Foster Botanical Garden in Honolulu, Hawaii. This palm makes "Nature's Biggest Bouquet" - the world's largest inflorescence! Its leaves are 10 feet long and up to 16 feet wide. Talipots only flower once and then die. These giant palms are native to Sri Lanka and Southern India. Telly was planted at Foster Botanical Garden in 1967.
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