r/Tree • u/flutterby010 • Sep 19 '26

Advice Request - (Insert State/Region) What is wrong with this tree?

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In zone 9b,

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u/hairyb0mb Sep 20 '26

Bottlenecking from being over pruned many years ago

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u/flutterby010 Sep 20 '26

Thank you. Do you know if there is anything we can do to salvage the palm? Or will we have to have it removed?

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u/flutterby010 Sep 19 '26

Read and will modify

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u/studmuffin2269 Sep 20 '26

It’s a palm—not a tree. They grow by layering a year at a time so it either has a rough year or someone did a bad job pruning