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Will Needle Palm Suckers Flower?

PalmTreeDude
PalmTreeDude
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This is probably a very basic question, but I have a nice sized Needle palm with a larger center trunk and smaller suckers all around it. Will the suckers ever flower like the center trunk will? And if they do flower, can the suckers polinate the other suckers and trunks flowers and produce viable seed? Thank you for reading. 

Edited by PalmTreeDude

PalmTreeDude

They should flower when the suckers mature but I doubt they will germinate the main plant since they will all be genetic clones. 

Zone 8a/8b Greenville, NC 

Zone 9a/9b Bluffton, SC

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    Needle palms are dioecious, i.e., each plant is either male or female. Suckers will grow up to be whatever sex the parent palm is.

    Meg

    Palms of Victory I shall wear

    Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
    Florida
    Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
    Elevation: 15 feet

    I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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    Thanks for the replies. I posted this thread before with replies but it posted twice. Does anyone know if Sabal minor are dioecious? 

    PalmTreeDude

    All Sabals are monoecious.

    Meg

    Palms of Victory I shall wear

    Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
    Florida
    Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
    Elevation: 15 feet

    I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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