Palm Tree Doctor

Palm of the week:

Carpentaria acuminata
Common name: Carpentaria palm
Origin: Australia
Max. Height: 40’-50’

Palm of the week:

Latania loddigesii
Common name: Blue latan palm
Origin: Mauritius Island (off East coast of Africa)
Max height 30'-35'

Don’t Top Trees!

Topping is perhaps the most harmful tree pruning practice known. Yet, despite more than 25 years of literature and seminars explaining its harmful effects, topping remains a common practice.

Topping is the indiscriminate cutting of tree branches to stubs or to lateral branches that are not large enough to assume the terminal role. Other names for topping include “heading,” “tipping,” “hat-racking,” and “rounding over.”

Sometimes a tree must be reduced in height or spread, such as for providing utility line clearance. There are recommended techniques for doing so. Small branches should be removed back to their point of origin. If a larger limb must be shortened, it should be pruned back to a lateral branch that is large enough (at least one-third the diameter of the limb being removed) to assume the terminal role. This method of branch reduction helps to preserve the natural form of the tree.

However, if large cuts are involved, the tree may not be able to close over and compartmentalize the wounds. Sometimes the best solution is to remove the tree and replace it with a species that is more appropriate for the site.

https://www.treesaregood.org/treeowner/pruningyourtrees

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Palm of the week: Latania loddigesii or Blue latan palm. This slow growing palm is under-utilized here in South Florida. This is one of the tallest blue latan palms in Fort Lauderdale

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