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Carnivorous palms

Laaz

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Tree rats playing in my Washingtonia's again. I guess they didn't learn the first time around...   :floor::bemused::D

 

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awkonradi Mentor

awkonradi

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Life is harsh.

Andrei W. Konradi, Burlingame, California.  Vicarious appreciator of palms in other people's gardens and in habitat

Really full garden Grand Master

Really full garden

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I have been "bitten" by Livistona saribus before. The petioles are armed with crocodilian sized "teeth". 

El Oasis - beach garden, distinct wet/dry season ,year round 20-38c

Las Heliconias - jungle garden ,800m elevation,150+ inches rainfall, year round 15-28c

Las Palmas Norte Grand Master

Las Palmas Norte

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Had a rodent nest in the crown of a CIDP for a while this past winter. May have been the reason, at least in part, it had the spear pull recently.

Cheers, Barrie.

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TexasColdHardyPalms Grand Master

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I wish my palms would/could kill squirrels and rats.

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Sir Oxylon Collaborator

Sir Oxylon

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A fiend of mine saw a pigeon impaled on a spine (acanthophyll) of a Phoenix canariensis once. 

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Sir Oxylon

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Friend not 'fiend' sorry.

msporty Rising Star

msporty

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If they only ate pocket gophers I would plant a whole field of them!

Dave-Vero Grand Master

Dave-Vero

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I can imagine giant Pleistocene shrikes impaling rodents on palm spines.  I once suggested that the new NFL team in Jacksonville should be the Shrikes.  The birds have black masks, are predators, impale their prey, and like football fields.  

Here, an Eastern Gray munching Archotophoenix tuckeri.  They won't touch Carpentaria.  

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Fla. climate center: 100-119 days>85 F
USDA 1990 hardiness zone 9B
Current USDA hardiness zone 10a
4 km inland from Indian River; 27º N (equivalent to Brisbane)

Central Orlando's urban heat island may be warmer than us

Darold Petty Grand Master

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Dave, that is a great photograph !

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San Francisco, California

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Kris Grand Master

Kris

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Dear Todd,

Here are few visuals from our washy...i hope these guys too have the same fate.They virtually have ripped all the sprouts of germinating seeds and have damaged new emerging spears of palm trees.

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love conquers all..

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