Dwarf Canary Island Date Palm at the Koreshan

[Loxahatchee Adam]

I was at the Koreshan State Historic Site this past weekend and came across this:

[Ben in Norcal]

Wow, that's fugly.

[PalmatierMeg]

Pitiful. CIDPs are so not suited to FL.

[Neil C]

Is that not a roebelenii?

[Jim in Los Altos]

I don't care what the sign says. That's no Phoenix canariensis! It may be a hybrid roebelenii cross or even a pure roebelenii. Either way, it's pretty homely at best and outright ugly at worst.

[NorthFlpalmguy]

That palm needs to meet a chainsaw. The CIDPs around here look great. Especially the ones around St George Island and Panama City Beach.

[Josh-O]

for sure a roebelenii something..

fugly no doubt

[akamu]

YUCK

[Phoenikakias]

Most probably advanced boron deficiency! I would keep it there as a very weird spectacle.

[Alicante]

What kind of CIDP is that? No way! This is not a CIDP im 100% sure.

In Spain the people (in the Spanish eBay) sell "coconuts" and in fact they are Syagrus or Dypsis. And the best is that they sell a lot, so I think that here happens the same... who did that did not know what he was talking about.

I've never seen that in my entire life. I've seen 10cm, 20cm, 30cm, 1m, 2m etc CIDP and naturalised ones and they grow fat and wide, not tall and thin. those leaves also aren't from a CIDP

[Pal Meir]

I found this photo at Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sjkln/15628209824

Here (near the outmost left margin) you can see in relation to the other palms that it is only a tiny Phoenix, maybe a sick P. roebelenii in its final stage.

[MKIVRYAN]

Finally someone found a palm uglier than the Newport coco.

[Gonzer]

Finally someone found a palm uglier than the Newport coco.

Thank you Lawdy, there's hope yet.

[Cikas]

That palm is not a CIDP.

[Eric in Orlando]

That is an unirrigated and unfertilized P. roebelenii.

[Loxahatchee Adam]

Yes, just a sickly roebelenii. It's just funny to me how at the site it's a historic palm that they've even documented as such.

I'm guessing that somewhere "Pygmy Date Palm" got lost in translation to Dwarf Canary Island Date palm.

[Pal Meir]

One of my Phoenix roebelenii had similar sunburned leaves after it had been exposed for several weeks to full summer sun:

[Kris]

Most probably advanced boron deficiency! I would keep it there as a very weird spectacle.

yes,even i felt so about boron deficiency !

[Brad Mondel]

That's a roebelenii. I disagree that Canary island date palms don't do well in Florida. I think they look better there than they do in California.

[Matthew92]

Reminds me of a REAL canary I saw in Crescent City, FL that was pretty messed up.

Edited October 25, 2015 by Opal92

[Matthew92]

From Betrock's Landscape Palms: "Tall palms that have reached close proximity to high voltage powerlines have been observed with yellowed or necrotic leaves despite regular fertilization and no evidence of pests or disease, suggesting that the electromagnetic fields around these lines can injure them."

Wonder it that's what is going on with the above palm.

[Josh-O]

it looks pretty sad