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Nick,

Sweet place, did you buy or are you renting?

Is this the 'palm' you were talking about?
It looks like a NZ Cabbage Tree (Cordyline
australis or Dracaena australis).
Genus is Cordyline so it's not a palm.
 
Glad you guys like the house. We are buying. It costs us sever thou' per month.

The palm I was inquiring about is not in any of the photos on this thread. You can see it if you go to the other tree site and look under the "residential" section.

Here's a pic of the palm in our yard.

[image]http://www.arboristsite.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=206741[/image]

It's a fine house and I love the property. I didn't show pics of the back part, but where there is no irrigation the land is all dried up and crusty with little living plants. The dog likes it there. But man, orange, avocado, and apparently loquat and maybe cherry trees?! Who can complain? Live oaks, palms, a big ol' cedar out front. I'm content, that's for sure.

Now...if only we didn't have to make payments on the thing!

love
nick
 
Nick,
Congrats on the new house then. A house
like that is lots of $$$ around here.

I hadn't seen the palm in your pictures and
assumed that was it. Sorry about that.

Your palm looks like a Phoenix (date palm),
I can't tell which, most likely Pheonix canariensis
(Canary Island date palm), Phoenix dactylifera (Date Palm)
or maybe Phoenix rupicola (wild date palm, india palm),
I don't know what grows down there.
Around here we have the canariensis and they are awesome.
AFAIK all Phoenix grow slowly and the first leaflets
on the petiole develop into spines.

I would clean it up by removing the dead and loose stuff.
I think they look best with a full head of fronds, a bit
like Sideshow Bob.

Btw, If you have an Oriental cherry, you will get
pretty flowers but most likely, no fruits.
 
Ptar- what do you make of the fact that it is a big clump of many palms, not just single stemmed. I don't know palms very much, but I imagine this thing later on down the road with 8 40'stems. Will they hold on? Seems like a wind will know one of those over, right onto the house, right quick. How strong is the stem union on palms?

love
nick
 
Ptar, all the palms you listed are single trunk palms. The one Nick has is a clumper, possibly Phoenix reclinata? I am not familiar with what is commonly planted in S. California.

Nick, I wouldn't worry too much about palms failing. From what I have seen, palms can withstand winds that make nearby trees fail, and phoenix palms are particularly strong.

I've attached a picture of what your clump might look like when it is mature.
 

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Leon,

That's a good point. I thought there were multiple
solitary stems. The main trunk looks a bit thick
for a P. reclinata don't you think?.
"Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms" describes
P. dactylifera as a 'sparsely clustering species
that only suckers with age'. It also says that
all species hybridize freely. So who knows...
P. nickfromwisconsinisis
 
YES, MY OWN PALM!!!!

I know that palms in general are very wind resistant. I've seen pictures of some palms being blown over so far that they are touching the ground! But if there are seven or eight coming out of the base, are they still as strong?

How fast do these things grow?

love
nick
 
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