The head (top) fell off my palm tree, is it dead?

Question

I think it's a Philippine palm (short, straight), I have a few others, most are short 6-7ft. but this one is probably about 10ft. The head recently fell off it. I wasn't able to examine the head, but the rest of the tree looks healthy. Kind of a bummers because it's a set. One on each side of my driveway.

Anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

Palm growing point is right where the "head" joins the "trunk."  If everything fell out, I'd suspect some crown rot problem which probably took the growth point.  Unlike other trees, if palms loose that central growing pot thru disease, that's it, the plant can't sprout out the sides.

Get a ladder and look, feel, smell.  Hopefully when you get up there you'll see a green point of a new frond coming up.  It it's black and bare you may have a disease that will spread to the others.  Not a happy thought.