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It’s so BIG!

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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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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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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On 12/3/2025 at 7:07 AM, JohnAndSancho said:

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

A lady visitor to my garden said that about the royal.

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Spanky is getting ready to drop one, right above the BBQ grill.

 

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Have been to busy to walk the jungle finally got some time and found these fronds!!!

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On 12/3/2025 at 12:15 AM, DoomsDave said:

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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Dave, do you have royal pythons - Python regius ?

They are very sweet animals, unless you take their food away when they don't eat it and just leave it next to them. It only hurt a little, like tiny needles—acupuncture 🤭

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8 hours ago, Mazat said:

Dave, do you have royal pythons - Python regius ?

They are very sweet animals, unless you take their food away when they don't eat it and just leave it next to them. It only hurt a little, like tiny needles—acupuncture 🤭

No snakes like pythons here in California. At least not that I know of.

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On 12/3/2025 at 10:07 AM, JohnAndSancho said:

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

I thought of it but I view us as "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", so I kept quiet.

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29 minutes ago, SeanK said:

I thought of it but I view us as "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", so I kept quiet.

This is probably the only group on earth with "society" in the name where I'm accepted. So I'll say it. 

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3 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

This is probably the only group on earth with "society" in the name where I'm accepted. So I'll say it. 

😍😂

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Caryota maxima when they fall they hit hard, they don’t call them maxima for no reason at all! 

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Urens are pretty max when they fall over.

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5 minutes ago, DoomsDave said:

Urens are pretty max when they fall over.

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A Porta Power and a couple rachet straps and a tree - well, a different tree - and that van is just fine. 

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32 minutes ago, DoomsDave said:

Urens are pretty max when they fall over.

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I’ll say it god oh mighty! 

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Neighbors probably thought it was just another California earthquake! Harry

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12 hours ago, DoomsDave said:

Urens are pretty max when they fall over.

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A little rubbing compound and that'll be just fine...

Butch

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