That looks like it. Thanks for the warning too. I was wondering if they were poisonous because just handling them made my hands feel weird. I will try to grow it anyway cause as a container plant in the north there is not much chance of it bearing fruit. My friend said they had cut down the tree. Maybe because its dangerous.

Though I couldn't get the photo , when I tried to copy and paste that address, I suspected since most folks loosely define "palms" as any plant with a long bare "trunk" and a cluster of leaves at the top, that it might not be a palm that was being described. Lucky in that case however, since unlike plams, the other "palm-like" plants may have their tops completely removed and can recover to start regrowth, whereas palms may not have the tops removed and survive in most cases. Pruning in that case consists at most of trimming off dead or brown frond and leaf tips and removing old dead fronds, but never the crowns!

You might have to wait a while for that one to fruit, but there should be a lot of them all over the Philippines fruiting any time.

The tree is from near West palm Beach, FL. I got it on 6 months ago when we were on a trip there. It is not a store bought plant. I looked at the Dracena family- I can see the similarities. But mine has such thick trunk for such little height, not very typical for dracena. Thank you. Do you think the cocoon is a flower bud or is it a new branch coming out? Thanks.