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What Is This Growing Under My Palm Trees?


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These green stalks (now about 1" wide) suddenly appeared about two or three weeks ago.

I'm assuming they are new baby palm trees, but I've never noticed them before in the last 10 years.

 

 

If I gently pull them out they look like this:

 

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I suppose I could dig one up and find out what it is growing from.

Maybe it's the birds' droppings that contain the palm tree seeds - the trees are full of birds eating the fruit.

 

 

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1 hour ago, worgeordie said:

Palm seedlings , What kind of Palm trees are they ?

regards Worgeordie

 

I don't know what type.

I only know about these 3. They started off quite small in 2008:

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Then they just got bigger...

 

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and bigger...

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and today:

 

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I think these devils are the culprits for dropping the seeds everywhere:

 

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2 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

Are they palm oil palms? 

 

I guess they must be! ????  I just googled that name and found this:

 

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- and that's what mine look like! Particularly the spikes on the edges on the branches! Aargh!

 

I've spent hours every year cutting branches off with various saws, sharp knives and axes.

But they've grown so tall that I can't reach any more, even from the top of my step ladder with one foot on the very top of it and the other on a cut off branch, while holding a saw on a long pole!

I got my landlord to cut all the 30, 40 & 50 foot trees down to about 4 to 8 feet last year, and I also got his men to hack off all but 6 to 8 of the palm tree branches.

 

The garden was considerably brighter afterwards.

But, now that the palm trees have grown back again, the garden is like the dark and gloomy forest in Little Red Riding Hood.

 

 

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3 hours ago, JetsetBkk said:

 

I guess they must be! ????  I just googled that name and found this:

 

477665352_PalmOilTreecrop.jpg.6bd0c11b0d95ab3e5b8fe6218ca669e8.jpg

 

- and that's what mine look like! Particularly the spikes on the edges on the branches! Aargh!

 

I've spent hours every year cutting branches off with various saws, sharp knives and axes.

But they've grown so tall that I can't reach any more, even from the top of my step ladder with one foot on the very top of it and the other on a cut off branch, while holding a saw on a long pole!

I got my landlord to cut all the 30, 40 & 50 foot trees down to about 4 to 8 feet last year, and I also got his men to hack off all but 6 to 8 of the palm tree branches.

 

The garden was considerably brighter afterwards.

But, now that the palm trees have grown back again, the garden is like the dark and gloomy forest in Little Red Riding Hood.

 

 

Ah, well, at least it will be a cool and shady garden in which no one wil get dark skin or sunburnt.  Also you can make some cooking oil from the nuts. 

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Yes , these are Palm Oil palms.

Like animal embryos the 'baby' plants of  various species of palms look surprisingly similar whilst young ,  and will thrive in a warm damp and shady spot till they get up a bit. Thereafter these need sun , and require an 8 metre spacing to do well.

Keep pulling them , or run them over with a mower and they will not be a problem.

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6 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

Ah, well, at least it will be a cool and shady garden in which no one wil get dark skin or sunburnt.  Also you can make some cooking oil from the nuts. 

Sure can - but give it away as it's not fit for humans. Just research palm oil a bit.

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Interesting, my friend in California mentioned how these "parasite" palm seedlings feed off the main palm.  Many people remove them and replant them to start a new tree.  That how the do it in palm tree nurseries.  

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