At a glance Water In their natural habitat, majesty palms develop a trunk as any ... may be damaged by rot before they have a chance to emerge and unfurl." Since the majesty palm is slow-growing ...

Our 20-plus foot palm tree has a hole ... mean for plant requirements? Majesty palms can grow to 30 or 40 feet tall with a crown spread of 10 to 15 feet. The trunk is gray, often bulging at ...

The fungus degrades the lignin in the lower four to five feet of the palm trunk. This is not a soft rot so the trunk will still be very hard. If a palm dies, with all the fronds hanging down ...

This is what’s known as butt rot. The mushroom-like ... Visual symptoms start with withering palm fronds. Eventually, a fruiting body or conk shows up on the trunk, and at that point, it ...

The palm tree probably had been infected by a disease known as ganoderma, a fungal infection that attacks mature palms. The common name for the disease is “butt rot.” “It’s very sad.