Robellini palm thorns...ouch

Six weeks ago I was out mowing the yard in our new house. Bumped into one of the palm trees and got stuck with a thorn in my left index finger. Burned like hell but didn't think anything about it. Over the next week or so it swelled. I figured their was a foreign body in there and was waiting for it to abcess and drain. Didn't happen. Swelling continued and it got painful especially when hit just right, then it felt like somebody was sticking a needle into my bone. Finally Monday I went to the Dr who sent me to the orthopod...ultrasound showed a foreign body in there. So today I went in for surgery, no bid deal as it was just a local and dig it out. Well turned out to be a 1 inch long thorn embedded in the tendon. Sumabitch!


https://floridata.com/static/images/..._ro_spines.jpg

https://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/20...bob/1df3c2.jpg

http://www.islandwidepalmtrees.com/u...53/3298429.jpg

not my hand but looks just like it

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Yikes.

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You are going to cut the thing down right?

What kind of idiot plants that in their yard? I can see it being planted as a security fence, but no other reason comes to mind.

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Originally Posted by dan_bgblue

What kind of idiot plants that in their yard? I can see it being planted as a security fence, but no other reason comes to mind.

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LOL, its at our house we just bought but have not moved into. We are renovating before moving in. However I have them at our current house too. They are nice palms. Small, inexpensive, hardy.... just have big ass thorns

I think id' go with a moat and gators versus those things, dang. Are they from Australia, that country is full of stuff that kills you flat dead.