Please help! Is my tree infested with conk?

[Nicole Milner]

[Fishinsteeg234]

Welcome to PalmTalk!
 

How’s the rest of the palm looking? What species? More photos of the whole palm may be helpful for the more knowledgeable people on here then me to help confirm or deny a fatal conk disease. 

[JLM]

The area looks very wet, that may have something to do with it. As said above, pictures of the whole palm would be very helpful. Also, where are you located? Are you in Florida?

[Mandrew968]

Those are fruiting bodies but completely benign. As long as the palm is healthy-which we can't tell from your photo, keep doing what you're doing. 

[Nicole Milner]

Hi everyone! I don’t know how to reply separately to the comments or edit my original post so I hope this is ok.

I have 3 of the same palms in my yard and this baby seems to look sad and droop. Just my opinion. I have had only a couple months of being a palm mommy. They are mule palms. Yes it has been crazy wet for the past week and the rain just keeps coming. I am in Katy, TX. I don’t have a full pic of the tree except the one I took after it was planted. I will put that one first and the pics that follow that one are more recent.

[Mandrew968]

They look great to me. Welcome to Palmtalk. Palm growers have a lot of sayings but one good one is, palms take up a lot of room-but they give most of it back. I say this because unless you have a Gaussia, then palms are not meant to look like candles. Only cut dead fronds and if a frond is in the way, I often tie it to another frond, rather than cut it off. Good luck!

[Merlyn]

Mules are variable palms, since it is a hybrid of queen and pindo.  Some end up more vertical, some more droopy, and most are somewhere in between.  It really just depends on the genetics of that particular palm's parents, but even seedlings from the same batch end up different.

As far as the fungus goes, it looks a bit like Ganoderma conks...but much smaller.  I'd guess they are just random dirt spore mushrooms, but keep an eye out for any larger conks that might form.  Here's some more info:  https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/PP100

Make sure that you don't have any sprinklers spraying on the trunks, as this can cause rot and eventually kill palms.  Watering the root zone is good...watering the trunk is baaad! 

[Mandrew968]

Merlyn, 100% not Ganoderma zonatum-also trunks can get wet, you just dont want things to STAY wet.