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Originally Posted by Quixote

We have a Sago that at one point became heavily infected (infested?) with a white fungus. Several nowledgeable people who looked at it intimated that it was doomed, that there was no cure for it, to enjoy the plant for as long as we could.

One day I was working outside when a passerby, seeing the plant, stopped, looked more closely at it, and said (I'm not making this up), "WD-40...." Wha'? Thinking that the plant was doomed anyway, I gave it a good spraying of WD-40.Today we have a vibrant, healthy, growing Sago!

I'm nor auggesting one-size-fits-all but rather that unless the horticultural folks have a definitive solution, it may be worth exploring, for lack of a better way to say it, a non-traditional approach. We would not have had penicillin when we did if not for a fluke, possibly like this.

Sago palms are prone to getting scale. Neem oil, which is readily available, is a great treatment.