Three or four years ago I planted a nice pony tail palm (Beaucarnea recurvata) in my Manouria rain forest. These are the pictures I posted back then after the tortoises had started eating the plant:
It was a real nice plant, about 3 and a half feet tall, and the caudex was about a foot in diameter.
Well, they ate it to the ground. That was, like I said, three or four years ago.
So this a.m. I'm out there planting some Alocasia and I discovered something very interesting:
You can see the remains of the caudex on the left, but notice the bright green little plantlet on the right of the caudex. The darn tree is growing!!!
![pony tail palm-1.jpg pony tail palm-1.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/132/132320-4774f2676cd6118055df9663062149db.jpg)
![pony tail palm-2.jpg pony tail palm-2.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/132/132321-1f68ede5c3b56302ea2ff2e6c056e5c4.jpg)
It was a real nice plant, about 3 and a half feet tall, and the caudex was about a foot in diameter.
Well, they ate it to the ground. That was, like I said, three or four years ago.
So this a.m. I'm out there planting some Alocasia and I discovered something very interesting:
![pony tail palm 8-30-15 a.jpg pony tail palm 8-30-15 a.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/132/132322-56911c7d46e9ce19e86d9ab46e6b6b9f.jpg)
![pony tail palm 8-30-15 b.jpg pony tail palm 8-30-15 b.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/132/132323-6bc7e6c62e3efc13a3743b3b24ac1b0c.jpg)
You can see the remains of the caudex on the left, but notice the bright green little plantlet on the right of the caudex. The darn tree is growing!!!