Are my foxtail palms dead from this winter’s freeze?

[cgarlick]

I live on the east coast of Central Florida. My triple foxtail trees received frost damage this winter. The center spears are brown and dry. There has been no new growth in that area for three months. There is some visible green under some of the dead fronds. Are my trees dead?

[aztropic]

Yes. Those trees are dead. Also, you can see that prior to the freeze,the trees were already in declining health, showing a pencilling down of the growing point. Eventually, they would have died anyway WITHOUT a major freeze. 🤷‍♂️

 

aztropic 

Mesa, Arizona 

[Harry’s Palms]

Yes , as @aztropic says , the Wodyetia let you know when they are not happy and usually never fully recover . Some palms can rebound very well but these are not forgiving , in my experience. The narrowing trunk near the crown is usually followed by smaller than usual fronds ….death sign. A healthy one is robust all the way up to the crown , only slightly tapering. Harry

[PalmatierMeg]

All dead. I gave up on foxtails because they have major issues with cold and long term cool weather. You are not alone; many people are going to lose palms after this past winter - I already have and expect to lose more. Hurricane Ian is still killing my palms nearly 4 years after it roared through.

[Merlyn]

@cgarlick welcome to Palmtalk!  I had a triple and a single Foxtail before the freeze, but 22.5F likely killed all 4 of mine.  One looks like it is trying to push a new frond, so I suppose it has a chance.  Anything below 25F is likely to kill a Foxtail, even a mature one.  

Any palm that is visibly "weeping" near the crown probably has a severe crown infection.  Any palm where the main trunk or upper crownshaft changed from round to irregularly sunken in probably has an internal trunk rot.  When those two symptoms become visible the palm is already dead.  So like in the first photo that left trunk is definitely dead.