Multiheaded Palms

[Palmsbro]

  It appears that multiheaded palms are quite rare. In fact, I haven't seen a multiheaded Sabal palmetto in person or a multiheaded Washingtonia ever. I have seen a couple of multiheaded Syagrus though. What multiheaded palms have you seen. Photos are encouraged.

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

A search on the forum will generate a lot of results with pics of butia, syagrus and sabals. 

[Stevetoad]

Here’s my father in laws freak show. This Med must have 30 heads on it

[Palmsbro]

13 minutes ago, Stevetoad said:

Here’s my father in laws freak show. This Med must have 30 heads on it

That's a lot of heads. I wonder what made it do that.

[cm05]

Hyphaene thebaica branches profusely. I’ve never seen one in person though.

[Palmsbro]

19 minutes ago, cm05 said:

Hyphaene thebaica branches profusely. I’ve never seen one in person though.

  I just looked that up. Some of those have so many branches that they bear a small resemblance to Cordyline australis (which is is not a real palm). It looks really neat and exotic (in a good way).

[tropicbreeze]

This Hydriastele ramsayi consists of two trunks. One has 2 heads and the other 3 heads.

Archontophoenix alexandiae with six heads.(This site keeps turning the image on its side!!!!)

 

[richnorm]

From an old book.  I do know of one alive today but never had the chance to see it.

[Pal Meir]

Only two heads: Hyphaene thebaica in »Thêbai Θηβαι« ≈ Luxor/Egypt (1999-03-08)

[Laaz]

We have multiple two headed butia's in the area. Do a forum search, I've posted a few.

[fiji jim]

[indianapalmguy]

A triple-headed queen palm in North Palm Beach.

[Silas_Sancona]

Another 2 headed Queen.. Gizella Kopsick Palm - Arboretum, St. Petersburg, FL. June 2011

[Rd003]

The Queen palm in my neighbors yard had its spear partially ripped out by Hurricane Irma, but the spear is still alive, but it's still producing from the middle, so I guess it just split  

P.S. How do y'all make the Images so small to fit them in a post, I'm constantly getting the 8 mb pop-up

[Chatta]

saw this on fb. double headed coconut in mexico 

[Umbrae]

Edited April 8, 2018 by Umbrae

[Umbrae]

Doum palm routinely branches this one belongs to a friend of mine ....mine froze his has prospered 

[Daryl]

Livistona chinensis

I've seen  a couple of these in our local area...this one has a nice shape to it. The other one had maybe 30 heads but looked like a real mutation!

 

[BillAndy]

I think this is a multi-headed queen. It’s a windy day in this pic. There’s another multi-headed queen a block away but I didn’t take a picture. 

[Little Tex]

Haha It looks like a saguaro! Can you drop the location so I can visit it the next time I go to Florida?

[SeanK]

On 4/7/2018 at 5:11 PM, Rd003 said:

The Queen palm in my neighbors yard had its spear partially ripped out by Hurricane Irma, but the spear is still alive, but it's still producing from the middle, so I guess it just split  

P.S. How do y'all make the Images so small to fit them in a post, I'm constantly getting the 8 mb pop-up

When I want to reduce images, I edit with MS Paint. I just resize. 50% yields 25% file size. 

[BillAndy]

On 3/3/2023 at 12:53 PM, 813PalmsnCycads said:

I think this is a multi-headed queen. It’s a windy day in this pic. There’s another multi-headed queen a block away but I didn’t take a picture. 

Updated picture from a less windy day.  Also including a triple head from the same neighborhood.