Q.
Here’s a fascinating palm tree photo I’ve taken in Las Vegas of a date palm, a
monocot, bifurcating at about 30′ above
the ground into a dicot. There are several of these bifurcated date palms in the same parking lot. What is
the reason?
Here’s a fascinating palm tree photo I’ve taken in Las Vegas of a date palm, a
monocot, bifurcating at about 30′ above
the ground into a dicot. There are several of these bifurcated date palms in the same parking lot. What is
the reason?
A. I will post it
with an explanation. It is not common but occasionally things like this occur
when the terminal bud is damaged but not killed and regrowth from the terminal
bud creates multiple new growing points. It has such strong terminal growth
that it created two instead of more. Sometimes it creates only one new one. The
alternative would have been death of the entire palm. What caused the damage?
Who knows. Bugs, disease…physical damage during transport…