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Could This Hurt a Coconut?

PalmTreeDude

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This may be a stupid question, but it was raining here for a long time and a mushroom is growing out of the actual coconut on my coconut palm, I have pulled it out but I am wondering if this could hurt the palm or if there is a root problem or anything like that. Or is this completely normal if it has been rained on for multiple days straight? 

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kinzyjr Grand Master

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I had a few around my Green Malayan Dwarf a few years ago.  I removed them and nothing bad has happened.

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30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

PalmatierMeg Grand Master

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The husk is decomposing. Once the plant has rooted in and used up seed's stored energy the rest of the nut is superfluous.

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I had some shrooms in my Lytocaryum pot. Probably at the locations where little flowers had fallen and started decomposing. I always regarded it as a topsoil event and had nothing to do with the rootsystem beneath it. The palm has never suffered from it. Might have been a bit psychedelic for the palm but I wouldn't know.

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On ‎5‎/‎26‎/‎2018‎ ‎3‎:‎00‎:‎24‎, PalmatierMeg said:

The husk is decomposing. Once the plant has rooted in and used up seed's stored energy the rest of the nut is superfluous.

Fungi is part of the breaking down process. The mushroom is the fruiting body. Remove the mushroom the fungi remain. 

Plenty of mushroom action going on in the humid subtropics and tropics where Coconuts flourish

What really hurts Coconuts is when try to grow them where the winters drop below and stays below 35 F for long periods or in a place with cold wet winters 

Coral Gables, FL 8 miles North of Fairchild USDA Zone 10B

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