I need a positive ID on this palm tree

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  1. GulfcoastGuy

    GulfcoastGuy New Member

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    Hi everyone, brand new to the site, hoping there is a palm expert who can help me positively identify this palm in my yard. It's about 8 years old and fast growing. I have cultivated this to only have the 5 stalks.

    I believe it is a recilinata, but there seems to be a lot of confusion between that and the Senegal. Some people even claim they are the same, but I don't believe that is true because my neighbor has a much taller and skinnier trunked cluster palm with more delicate frons that I believe is the Senegal palm from other pictures I've looked at.

    The frons on my palm are stiffer and more rigid, but they have the same flat/twisted style to them which tells me they're related. The seed pods are also the same in shape, and similar to a large indian date palm I have if that helps.

    Thanks!
     

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    saltcedar Rising Contributor 10 Years

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    P. reclinata is Senegal Date according to the USDA.
    However yours looks like it may be a hybrid of reclinata x rupicola or dactylifera.
     
  3. GulfcoastGuy

    GulfcoastGuy New Member

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    Thanks for the feedback. I hadn't considered a hybrid and didn't know they existed. Again, the primary difference I see in these particular clustered varieties is on the fron rigidity and trunk diameter, so maybe it's just a matter of how healthy it is, the soil it's in, etc.

    If anyone else has some input it will all be appreciated. I'm about to have this professionally re-located to be the centerpiece of my from yard, so I want to make sure I give it the proper care in the process.
     
  4. Ron B

    Ron B Paragon of Plants 10 Years

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    Which particular one of these it is wouldn't be expected to have any specific bearing on how the transplanting operation is undertaken.
     

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