Mutant Palm Tree

[Ventura]

I spotted this palm tree outside the West Marine Store in Oxnard.  A little sucker tree is growing out of EVERY leaf base.  It looks like a Butia cross.  Anyone ever see something like this?

[Fusca]

That is incredible suckering!  But it is a Phoenix hybrid with, I'd guess, dactylifera and canariensis.

[DAVEinMB]

If Cousin It was a palm tree

[GoatLockerGuns]

1 hour ago, Fusca said:

That is incredible suckering!  But it is a Phoenix hybrid with, I'd guess, dactylifera and canariensis.

That thing is unbelievable.  Yeah, I would suspect a hybrid as well.  I have never seen Phoenix canariensis sucker like that.  The fronds look more canariensis-like though, and that trunk is so freaking think.  I wonder what the drupes look like.  Here are some shots of local Phoenix dactylifera (at least, I think they are Phoenix dactylifera) suckering that I took the other day.  I suspect (again, only a suspicion) that suckering like that may be a result or after-effect of some trauma? These suckering Phoenix dactylifera below are in recovery mode after experiencing a brutal cold snap last year (one that outright killed most of the Phoenix dactylifera around here).  I am sure that Phoenix sps. pictured did not experience anything like that, but possibly some other trauma?

[GeneAZ]

3 hours ago, Ventura said:

I spotted this palm tree outside the West Marine Store in Oxnard.  A little sucker tree is growing out of EVERY leaf base.  It looks like a Butia cross.  Anyone ever see something like this?

I have seen one such plant here in central Phoenix in the oldest part of town.  I don't have an image, and the plant here is quite blue for dactylifera and is closer to sylvestris.  Your plant takes the cake, hands down.

[Ventura]

if they quit pruning it i imagine those would be branches.  each branch would then sucker as well.

[Palmarum]

Just now, Ventura said:

if they quit pruning it i imagine those would be branches.  each branch would then sucker as well.

A unique bushy phenomenon. I wonder if it would get so massive it would collapse under it's own weight if allowed to grow as it wants to.

Ryan

[Little Tex]

41 minutes ago, Palmarum said:

A unique bushy phenomenon. I wonder if it would get so massive it would collapse under it's own weight if allowed to grow as it wants to.

Ryan

I don't think it would get enough nutrients. I think it would look like a small tree. In my neighborhood there is a CDIP that looks like this.

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4 hours ago, Little Tex said:

I don't think it would get enough nutrients. I think it would look like a small tree. In my neighborhood there is a CDIP that looks like this.

pictures of your cidp? 

[96720]

CIDP palms don’t sucker it would have to be a hybrid 

[awkonradi]

Very interesting!  Do you think you could root any of the suckers on that palm?  Seeing how they have been chopped back, I think it would be OK to swipe some.

[JubaeaMan138]

9 hours ago, GoatLockerGuns said:

That thing is unbelievable.  Yeah, I would suspect a hybrid as well.  I have never seen Phoenix canariensis sucker like that.  The fronds look more canariensis-like though, and that trunk is so freaking think.  I wonder what the drupes look like.  Here are some shots of local Phoenix dactylifera (at least, I think they are Phoenix dactylifera) suckering that I took the other day.  I suspect (again, only a suspicion) that suckering like that may be a result or after-effect of some trauma? These suckering Phoenix dactylifera below are in recovery mode after experiencing a brutal cold snap last year (one that outright killed most of the Phoenix dactylifera around here).  I am sure that Phoenix sps. pictured did not experience anything like that, but possibly some other trauma?

This looks to have some reclinata in it ? 

[Las Palmas Norte]

This is why you should never have kids with your cousins. 

Edited March 12, 2022 by Las Palmas Norte

[Manalto]

3 hours ago, Las Palmas Norte said:

This is why you should never have kids with your cousins. 

No? Guess I'll get working on Plan B.

[GoatLockerGuns]

9 hours ago, JubaeaMan138 said:

This looks to have some reclinata in it ? 

Yeah, I was thinking that might be a possibility as well.