Palm ID Help

[Ras]

Hello Palm Community...

This guy has been growing in my front yard for a while now (bird must have dropped a seed?), and I have no clue what it is. Really hoping it is the "pineapple" pam tree. Anyone know what this bad boy is? 

Thanks!

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[Ras]

Just now, Ras said:

Hello Palm Community...

This guy has been growing in my front yard for a while now (bird must have dropped a seed?), and I have no clue what it is. Really hoping it is the "pineapple" pam tree. Anyone know what this bad boy is? 

Thanks!

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[awkonradi]

Looks like a Canary Island date palm (Phoenix canariensis), or less likely another Phoenix species.  I imagine that "pineapple palm tree" means Canary Island date palm, so I think you got your wish.

[Jim in Los Altos]

1 hour ago, Ras said:

Hello Palm Community...

This guy has been growing in my front yard for a while now (bird must have dropped a seed?), and I have no clue what it is. Really hoping it is the "pineapple" pam tree. Anyone know what this bad boy is? 

Thanks!

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“Pineapple” palm is better known as Canary Island Date Palm. That’s what you’ve got. I have a volunteer one too that’s getting really big now. 

[96720]

It’s definitely a Phoenix but it looks like it’s suckering to me therefore it’s not 100% CIDP

[Jim in Los Altos]

4 hours ago, 96720 said:

It’s definitely a Phoenix but it looks like it’s suckering to me therefore it’s not 100% CIDP

Not seeing any suckering on his palm. Suckering  Phoenix typically don’t send out offsets until their trunks develop more. 

[96720]

The color definitely looks CIDP but at the very base it looks like a crumpled frond coming out from in between the frond base which is what I see my date palms do I have never seen that on a CIDP maybe a closer up picture of the base would cleaify if that is what I’m seeing.

[Fusca]

2 hours ago, 96720 said:

The color definitely looks CIDP but at the very base it looks like a crumpled frond coming out from in between the frond base which is what I see my date palms do I have never seen that on a CIDP maybe a closer up picture of the base would cleaify if that is what I’m seeing.

I think I see what you're seeing.  I think it's just a dried up leaf up next to the base of the palm and not a sucker.  If you look to the right of photo #1 you'll see another similar leaf.  If you ignore the reddish stem of the leaf it does kinda look like a newly emerging sucker.  @Jim in Los Altos I actually have a Phoenix dactylifera juvenile even smaller that the palm in question that started suckering this past summer.  It surprised me that it suckered that early!  Probably an anomaly. 

[96720]

Mine always sucker even in pots then I know I don’t want them and throw them away. I bought a bunch of seeds that were supposed to be rectinalatas and they started suckering in the leaf bases that is not the way they are supposed to sucker so I threw them away.

[Ras]

Thanks all for the responses!! This is great news as I love me some pineapples

It is not suckering at the base, just dried leaves and some fronds that I cut a few weeks back. There is a second one that is much smaller growing in another location that I need to move as it is right next to the driveway. Any tips on the best way to do that would be much appreciated.

Cheers!