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Apologies for the poor picture quality, hopefully this will help. It is growing directly in a flower bed.
24 May, 2010
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I believe Seaburn is right, this is some sort of flowering process - nice palm, but I can see why you don't like the parts at the top of the trunk. Perhaps you should leave them, or one or two and see how they develop.
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wow nice one,whats your question
24 May, 2010