Twin Leader Cocos Palm

Davo The Terrible

Saw this Cocos Palm (Syagrus romanzoffiana) in Southport, Qld and am quite intrigued by it's ability to develop twin leaders. (I apologise for the pic quality) Has anyone else seen this sort of thing? Or got a good explanation?

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Garry Brockley

I have never seen a codominated head on a cocus i didn't think they had the dna to do that.

Oh god slay it slay it! i cant look any more its hideous after a week of purely palms 26 of which were cocus im over them too many cockroaches spiders ants and rotting debis down my shirt

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Bowani Siam

Hahahaha!!!!!!!

Twin leader Cocos. Ahhh it's ghoulish! Look away! Look away!!!!!!!

According to something I read and saved a long time ago, "Because of sublethal damage to the growing point by insects or a physical force such as lightning, aerial branching can occur abnormally in solitary palms. Examples of this are found in the coconut (Cocos nucifera) and palmyra (Borassus flabellifer). No technique has yet been devised to induce abnormal aerial branching for economic purposes."

ALSO there is a cool example of a branching Howea as seen on pages 10-12 of this PDF.

http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/e...ivateTrees.pdf

I must admit I am most fascinated by branching palms, especially Hyphaene. - Totally awesome...

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Bowani Siam

Another occurrence of branching in a typically solitary species..

http://www.springerlink.com/content/...r/fulltext.pdf



Ok, back to work now..

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old school

fantastic,rare,i lol was told the palm at first goes into a serious stressed moment where the heat in the head almost dies, so it without a correct cut,as if you were to do in a hardwood,subordinate or remove a codominate leader,and you see those spouts comin off your cut,the tree pushing the secondary food storage trying to replace what was cut off,so the palm was stressed the heart damaged and tapped into its storage and produced another heart inwitch collected protien starch and symbeoticly fed the damaged heart back ,now you got 2 healthy hearts working together,,i dont no this was told 2 me, i no local and cant wait to get the pic stay in touch wit me i no of a queen palm wit 7 heads and off corse 7 different hearts amazing ill get it soon

Eric Frei

Yes, get the picture of the Queen palm with 7 heads.

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old school

no prob. eric exspect it soon, im gunna trim it for free, ill take before and after pics but if i trim it up pretty there is a great possability theres another head im sure there is ,the association just had us take the frons hittin the roofs off ,so im gunna offer my services free lol ,the palm is relitivly healthy but just the weight man wait till you see it ,its got to be 900 to 1100 pound head ,its gunna break evently.......

Jeff Darby

With seven heads I would be careful climbing this mofo....there mutating cause Eric flogged them up so much..lol.. Go the palm slayer..

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old school

not climbing it,its in an asociation of maybe 200 houses, gated comunity ,nice place but cheap,its in the front yard and will fail and destoy the house,i myself would not put a ladder on it ,polecat wud be my choice,its only 20 ft. or so,dont worry ill get the pics, its definaly cool as sh_t

Eric Frei

It'd be like Clash of the Titans, I think it'd need some torture before being slayed just for having so many heads, decapitation one by one would be a galactic event IMHO!

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