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Old 29th January 2008, 05:55 AM   #1
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Hey guys, just a few pictures of a washingtonia takedown i did on saturday...
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Old 29th January 2008, 06:04 AM   #2
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nice job.thats the first codom palm i've ever seen.
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Old 29th January 2008, 12:52 PM   #3
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I wouldn't really call it codominant, more like 2 palms grown together.

BTW what type of washingtonia is it? looks like a filifera, didn't know you'll had those in NZ
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Old 29th January 2008, 04:08 PM   #4
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Sorry to be pedantic, but I think you would have to describe that as 'double-planted' rather than 'double-leadered' - the latter would be a much rarer beast indeed!
What a pity it wasn't worth transplanting !
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Old 29th January 2008, 05:58 PM   #5
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They suck those palms, palms come in doubles, triples, quads etc ... bad spot for it anyway.
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Rather you than me Matty haha
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Old 29th January 2008, 10:07 PM   #7
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Every time I do one I say "Never Again", did 2 last month, never again.

I've got 30 of the things in pots ready to sell, so look out in a few years.
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someones got to do it lol, just hate those damn infected cuts after spiking myself too many times!!! and having to find a place to dump the logs and the crap!
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Old 30th January 2008, 07:36 AM   #9
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Nice work Treekiwi, In the Palm Springs area of CA, i used to see W. robusta that would have an extra trunk branching out 20 -30 feet off the ground? That's the only place i've seen them like that.
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That's weird Mike, get some pics of that if you can as I have never seen palms branching out anywhere but the base.
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Old 30th January 2008, 09:05 PM   #11
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Some palms self seed on themselves and end up with two "leaders"

Good takedown kiwi
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Old 31st January 2008, 12:52 AM   #12
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Hi Guys
Phoenix roebelinii multi-heads from time to time - I once saw one only 2m tall with 15 or so heads. It had two or three levels of division. Alpine Treemovals in Sydney had a corker 3m tall x 4m wide with 30 heads approx. It was used in one of the garden expos, but unfortunately died -it was worth $10-20k but even more as a rarity to be admired. I'll see if I can get you a pic.
Phoenix are promiscuous, so hybrids with roebelinii may acquire multi-stem genes.
I once saw a Cocos with codom trunks - it must have had its growing tip damaged but recovered.
Doum palms in Nth Africa branch regularly - its its normal form.
But ones like the Washingtonia are just the result of multiple seedlings being planted initially, I think you'll find.
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Old 31st January 2008, 12:22 PM   #13
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If i ever get out to Palm Springs area again, i take some photos (it's about 2000 miles from me) I never could figure out how they branched out off the trunk so high off the ground?
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