Additionally, if you hire a tree service to prune, don’t allow them to climb palms with tree spikes. These also cause permanent damage to the trunks. Remember: In pruning, less is always better!

Like deciduous tree leaves, palm fronds perform photosynthesis, giving the tree the food it needs to live. Some palm fronds can last for five years or longer. They come in many sizes and shapes too.

‘Skinning’ is the practice of removing pendant but living fronds from a palm tree. In the case of Canary palms, ... for that matter — is climbing with the assistance of spikes.

A tree trimmer was rushed to a hospital in extremely critical condition after part of a 50-foot palm tree's "skirt" — the dried fronds that hang from the trunk — fell on him.