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A clumping palm with many slender yellow green canes rising from a single base, each ringed like bamboo, topped with arching feather fronds. Quite different from the single trunked Bangalow or Cocos Palm.
Planted in enormous numbers as a screening palm across the Eastern Suburbs, Inner West, Northern Beaches and North Shore, usually along boundaries and around pools.
The canes come down quickly, but the job is the root mass, which is dense, fibrous and usually wedged against a fence, pool shell or paving. Budget for excavation rather than a simple stump grind. On the Northern Beaches it falls under the general palm exemption, since only the Cabbage Tree Palm is carved out; elsewhere check the council, as most exempt lists name Cocos Palm specifically rather than palms generally.
Only where a council exempts palms generally. The Northern Beaches exempts all palms other than the Cabbage Tree Palm, so it is covered there. Most other councils name Cocos Palm by species, which does not extend to Golden Cane.
Yes, individual canes can be taken out at the base to reduce density and width, and it is a good alternative where the clump is only just outgrowing its space. It needs repeating every couple of years.
