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multi trunking phoenix

Patrick

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Perhaps someone can help me with this?

When a palm tree trunk splits, making two growing points from the same trunk, is that considered a genetic trait that sometimes happens or a freak mutation? I'm talking specifically of those multi-trunked Pigmy dates (P. roebelnii). I know that palms like Hyphaene do this regularly. What I'm also wondering is wether seeds from a mature multi-trunk phoenix will produce offspring that will have a tendency to follow the parent with it's multi-trunk wackyness.

For all you SD guys, I was just visiting down there and at the Holiday Inn on the harbor (right next to the airport) they had one of these multi-trunked specimens- naturally the question arose and I thought I'd ask you all. Any thoughts? Thanks for the info.!

Oakley, California

55 Miles E-NE of San Francisco, CA

Solid zone 9, I can expect at least one night in the mid to low twenties every year.

Hot, dry summers. Cold, wet winters.

Kim Grand Master

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The multi-trunking palms you saw along the harbor in San Diego are Phoenix reclinata, a massive suckering (mulit-trunking) species.  The multi-trunk feature is characteristic of this species.  This is not the same as the occasional freak multi-crowned Phoenix roebelenii you see from time to time (possibly from crown damage); the suckering on the reclinata is a new shoot coming up from the roots. (Not a botanist, couldja tell?).

Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
All characters  in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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