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Palm tree ident
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Can anyone give me the name of this palm? Are they fast geowing and maint intensive?
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Appears to be a Sylvester palm, part of the Date palm family. They put out a ton of messy seed pods in spring that drop a ton of seeds. You can pay someone to trim 'em each year, but I got tired of that. They are a very pretty tree, though. Good luck.
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There are two sexes to a Sylvester palm, (only two!) male and female. If you are lucky you get a male. The male only has pollen stalks, no dates. The female has dates and some people like to cut off the dates as they can be messy. If you have a natural landscape with bark or pine straw mulch you can just let them fall. |
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Home Depot also has Lesco fertilizer with Magnesium, which is what Palms need.
I used Fertilizer Direct for a bit before Home Depot carried Lesco. I had some poor service from Fertilizer Direct, paid but no delivery, etc. |
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Here are some pictures of more mature Sylvester Palms. The first two photos are male trees, the third is a female tree. The female produces the dates.
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What about the palm rats? I just discovered that rats climb the palm trees to eat the fruit/seeds. Then they make a hole in your roof and breed. If the tree is too close to your home - trouble. Anyone else have this problem? Oh, The Villages!!
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I remember when I was in college out for an evening with friends drinking down in an old Irish bar down in Greenwich Village. (New York City) We were walking back uptown in the wee hours of the morning and we saw so many huge rats scurrying around that we were careful where we stepped! There were no palm trees around! Roof rats live in trees, attics, and wherever they can. There are snakes, rats, squirrels, mice, bats, opossums, raccoons, spiders, coyotes, alligators, etc., in the Villages. Most of the time they aren’t a problem. |
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I told my husband that the only palm trees I wanted are those I can see from afar. They require a fair amount of attention and cost to keep up and I spend a lot of time in my garden but will not do a palm and I was correct. They are pretty though.
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Had a Sylvester Palm here in TV for 15 years. Grew in that time to 18 feet tall with no Fertilization except what was put on to feed the grass. It was a good-looking tree. We had a landscape company out of Tampa that came by and wanted to buy it. We had been thinking about getting rid of it anyway due to with that height it became a burden to trim.
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There are two sexes to a Sylvester palm, (only two!) male and female. If you are lucky you get a male. The male only has pollen stalks, no dates. The female has dates and some people like to cut off the dates as they can be messy. If you have a natural landscape with bark or pine straw mulch you can just let them fall.[/QUOTE]
Great response. Very informative and right on. Thanks very much. We have one as well. A male and love the tree. And, relatively slow growing. And, TOTV might consider having a category each month of “best, most helpful, informative response” — yours would be at the top of the list. TOTV at its best. |
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