Marble Like Palms Disease

Note the two canary island date palms in the small blog picture.

Marble like palms disease.

New growth is stunted and is pale green or yellow in color. This disease is caused by the fungus ganoderma zonatum which can infect many types of palms. The disease that afflicts these trees lethal bronzing has a name similar to the color it turns diseased leaves a brown that slowly. Something is killing florida s palm trees.

The conks are the give away clue that it has ganoderma butt rot disease. However little is known about the environmental conditions that encourage the condition. Dupuytren s du pwe tranz contracture is a hand deformity that usually develops over years. There is no cure.

The bayoud disease attacks mature and young palms alike as well as offshoots at their base saaidi 1979. The condition affects a layer of tissue that lies under the skin of your palm. It is considered to be the prototype of. Osteopetrosis can cause bones to dissolve and break.

For some background all palms as well as cycads and other palm like plants are susceptible to ganoderma butt rot a fatal disease with no known cure. Knots of tissue form under the skin eventually creating a thick cord that can pull one or more fingers into a bent position. Osteopetrosis literally stone bone also known as marble bone disease or albers schönberg disease is an extremely rare inherited disorder whereby the bones harden becoming denser in contrast to more prevalent conditions like osteoporosis in which the bones become less dense and more brittle or osteomalacia in which the bones soften. Something is killing florida s palm trees.

Ganoderma root butt rot. The first symptom of infection is the withering and drooping of older fronds. It is frequently found on queen palms areca palms canary island date palms and all other palms to a certain degree. Fronds collapse and droop parallel to the trunk.

The disease that afflicts these trees lethal bronzing has a name similar to the color it turns diseased leaves a brown that slowly. This disease has been observed in a wide range of palms including coconut palms cocos nucifera chinese fan palm livistona chinensisa windmill palm trachycarpus fortunei and the canary island date palm phoenix canariensis among others. Ganoderma is caused by the pathogen ganoderma zonatum and any palm tree can come down with it. It is easily spread by wind blown spores and.

It can kill palm trees.