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It’s so BIG!

DoomsDave

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DoomsDave

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Sitting in my home office yesterday in the middle of one of those Eternal Zoom Conferences when I hear this sudden crash thud and see a shadow across my nearby window.

it turned out to be an abscised leaf from my watermelon hookeri. Okay, not big like a royal but still big. 

Maybe you have palms and/or parts of same with unexpectedly large size?

 

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It's not mine and not exactly unexpected but certainly BIG!  😆  Spent frond from a young Lodoicea maldivica.

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I have a friend a few blocks away had the same thing happen that happened to @DoomsDave. A Chambeyronia frond dropped and made a frightening sound . I can see how that can happen , they have a large frond and a self cleaning crown. Harry

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That’s a chunky Chamby frond Dave! Here’s a 28 foot P. torralyi frond stretching across my entire front lawn area that I just removed the other day. 
 

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2 minutes ago, Jim in Los Altos said:

That’s a chunky Chamby frond Dave! Here’s a 28 foot P. torralyi frond stretching across my entire front lawn area that I just removed the other day. 
 

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Holy what a beauty 😮

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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10 minutes ago, Jim in Los Altos said:

That’s a chunky Chamby frond Dave! Here’s a 28 foot P. torralyi frond stretching across my entire front lawn area that I just removed the other day. 
 

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Oh yeah. Let dry out and it makes great kindling in the Pyromania Fireplace.

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3 hours ago, Fusca said:

It's not mine and not exactly unexpected but certainly BIG!  😆  Spent frond from a young Lodoicea maldivica.

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I thought this species needs purely tropical conditions to survive. Is this specimen in Texas?

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1 hour ago, Jim in Los Altos said:

That’s a chunky Chamby frond Dave! Here’s a 28 foot P. torralyi frond stretching across my entire front lawn area that I just removed the other day. 
 

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Good Lord, man. 

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Harry’s Palms

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OK I’ll play along . These don’t fall on their own like Dave’s Chambey frond or Jim’s super long frond , but last time I cut an overhanging Obtusa frond ( hanging over a neighbor’s driveway) , it took almost an hour to cut it up in order to dispose of it! I had to drag the frond out into the street to cut it up . HarryIMG_1002.thumb.jpeg.29b7dbe855286644f92ea388ac2e437d.jpeg

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Fusca Grand Master

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8 hours ago, Than said:

I thought this species needs purely tropical conditions to survive. Is this specimen in Texas?

No, this palm is in a private garden in south Florida.  It's quite rare in cultivation.

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Nobody has made a "that's what she said" joke yet. What's happened to us? 

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