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Laisla87

By Laisla87
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Hi all 

My Kentia palm has some strange deformed leaves emerging from the trunk...I apologise for the poor pics (the lighting is off) but the new leaves are half their normal size and the latest one is emerging brown/dead. Initially I thought it was burnt in an earlier heatwave, but now not so sure. There has been construction next door beside it. Any ideas on what this could be?

Many thanks in advance!

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Steve Mac Grand Master

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Mate I have seen on here over the years, that sort of thing happen to a lot of species of palm.

Reasons vary, in America (the most numerous contributors here) it is usually cold, a pathogen, a bug (weevil) or unknown.

Here in Sydney, cold will not do that to a Howea (Kentia). Especially before winter.

If it is one of the lethal pathogens or weevils, well it's lethal.  http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/56370-beetle-infestation/ 

i think that a lot of the unidentified problems like yours are usually a crown fungus that the plant often recovers from.

Cheers Steve

It is not dead, it is just senescence.

   

 

 

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