Tree vs Palm, Tree won...
So in my yard there is a palm next to a big shaving brush tree. I understand from the previous owner of the property the palm wasn't planted there intentionally but grew from seeds from a nearby palm.
If you look at the palm you will see a vertical line germinating from it's base. It is actually a crack.
The crack also appear on the other side of this palm. The other side is actually much worst.
In fact, the you can see through the crack!
The palm is over 25' tall, and the crack goes to about 8' above ground.
Yet if I look up the palm fronds seems healthy.
I think the shaving brush tree root grew into the base of the palm, expanded and broke the palm in half at the base. I can't think of another explanation.
Should I cut down the palm? I don't think it will survive the next storm.
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Dave in NoVA • N. Virginia • zone 7A
5 years agoMiami Cuse thanked Dave in NoVA • N. Virginia • zone 7A
Miami Cuse
5 years agoI guessed the palm was damaged by the roots of the adjacent shaving brush tree, because the shaving brush tree roots were doing a lot of damages farther away from it's trunk.
It has lifted a whole section of wood fence pickets about 20 feet away.
I have a walkway on the side of the yard that is lined with a grid of 20"X20" stepping stones, about 20' away in another direction, it lifted these stepping stones a few inches off.
It even lifted the two central air conditioning compressors and the concrete slabs they sit on.
That's about 10 feet away. The palm is 10 inches away from the main trunk. It's not a lightning strike that I know, I have seen a lightning strike on a tree.
I worry about what this tree's root may do to my concrete foundation.
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