Hello guys.

Strange sighting of this queen palm in Artesia, CA.

Experts please chime in and explain what happened here.

First time for me to see this......

Thank you.

Did the seeds grow within itself?

New and younger leaf growing at lower level?

But again you also see at lower level what looks like branches

of a tree(lateral growth/branches cut off) as old leaf bases? on a queen palm?

There's got to be an explanation.

Yes,it looks like many branches cut of before.Would be interesting to try grafting some branches,as on P. dactylifera?

someone say something about a bizarre Queen.................

Well, I guess if the experts are stumped like me......

Ill try to talk to the owner.

Has anyone else seen this before?

Cheers.

I'd say seeds probably germinated in the areas where the old petiole stumps collect water.

Looks like it is forming multi heads. Notice the original crown has a stunted look to it.

Looks like a monstrose mutation.

Someone recently posted a similar queen somewhere in Socal. Might want to try to find the thread.

So Queens are now marsupials?

Stopped by the place today...owner has no clue whats goin on.

The palm has been growing over 20 years and has juvenile leaves (gallon size and up).

Closer look, seems like it has close to a dozen separate growth points/spears.

TampaScott you might be right...multi head mutation.

Cheers.

Tampa Scott your right on with the multi head and (original crown with) stunted look observation.

I found another one like this in El Monte, CA.

Apparently, this is what happens when the palm was trimmed too low by the tree trimmer.

I was told the trimmer or owner wanted the queen to look like a canary/pineapple palm.

They removed all the leaves and probably cut a bit of the crown/growing point on top.

Wow a palm that branches...mystery solved.

Woww, so it was intentional.

I'm guessing if they just stopped trimming it would just branch out everywhere and eventually you'll have a main trunk then split into many trunks. I've always loved the branched P.roebelenii look, I wonder if I could make one branch the same way.