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Palm tree Base trunk looking not good

10 years ago

Hi I got thus palm last year I informed the company when it came it looked like damage to root ball attached to main trunk they advised me to plant and wait till spring and no growth from top and this happening at Base just where the damage was any advise would be great

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Josue (Zone 9b, Central, inland California)
10 years ago
I'm not sure what damage you're talking about. Is it the cracked leaf base? You have a trachycarpus there. These palms hold on to old leaf bases, but these are not vital in any way to the palm - most palms actually drop their leaf bases on their own. Some people who grow these actually remove all of the old leaf bases to expose the woody trunk underneath.
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