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Amen to deep roots. I had to remove a tiny 5 inch diameter palm tree from my back yard and it took me about 2 hours of heavy pickaxing and the shoveling. And u

Amen to deep roots. I had to remove a tiny 5 inch diameter palm tree from my back yard and it took me about 2 hours of heavy pickaxing and the shoveling. And ultimately, I had to tie a rope on the tall end, and have my wife lever it from the root with the pickaxe. Extremely hard to remove these bastards.

daniel-cussen 4y ago
They have to be strong because they're beautiful and people want to uproot them. You know people want to exploit these trees? In Chile you have Chilean wine palms, men topple the tree and tap the root, get the sap and sell it, it's like honey people put them on bananas, it's a Chilean dish, using the sap, called miel de palma. The wine of the wine palm. So they have to be strong. These trees survived the 9.6 degree earthquake in 1960, and the 8.8 degree earthquake in 2010. Moreso than hurricanes, different palms, not as tall and skinny, though that kind, the matchstick palms like in Los Angeles, they are present here too, like in front of Universidad Católica campus near Metro Universidad Católica (that's the name of the station, Universidad Católica on Línea 1, Line 1). They're all beautiful. Those trees are currently surviving urban warfare at that intersection, every Friday evening it's a collective struggle on both the police and protester's sides. So they have to be strong.