New giant palm species flowers itself to death

This article is so amazing that I find myself asking if it is real, or a hoax:

Botanists on Thursday announced they had identified a new species of palm that is so enormous it can be spotted from space and whose bizarre life cycle requires the plant to kill itself after it has flowered.

The gigantic, pyramid-shaped plant was discovered accidentally by a French family walking in remote north-western Madagascar, according to the publishers of their study.

The palm's trunk is more than 18m high and its leaves are an extraordinary 5m in diameter, which could make them the largest known to date among flowering plants.

A French couple, Xavier and Nathalie Metz, who run a cashew farm in Madagascar, stumbled upon the palm as they were walking with their family at a limestone outcrop in the hills of Analalava district, Blackwell said. Stunned by the sight, they took pictures of it and posted them on the web.

Very disappointing that there isn't a picture.  A Google search for the couple turns up nothing but a bunch of genealogy web sites.  Does anybody have access to the famous picture?

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