Texas phoenix palm decline known to attack palm trees in Florida. The introduction of this disease has left the state of Florida struggling to control the potential damage to palm trees in landscapes statewide. It has been observed to almost exclusively attack the Canary Island palm, but is seen on other species. Since 2009, Texas Phoenix palm disease is known to severely affect the "Phoenix spp." and "Sabal spp." palm trees: Canary Island date palm, silver or sylvester date palm, Queen palm, Sabal palm, and cabbage palm. All of these trees have been observed to have the same symptoms. The complete host range of
Beautiful fruit dove from trees, palms and vines. In the Port Moresby area, birds were found to eat a mixed diet in May. Large "Tristiropsis canarioides" fruit were taken when available, but the species gets displaced from fruiting trees by larger pigeons such as the collared imperial pigeon ("Ducula mullerii"). Small "Endiandra" sp. fruit were very often eaten, but made up only a small quantity of food volume. Other food were "Gymnacranthera paniculata" and small quantities of "Polyalthia" sp., "Livistona" palm fruit, and occasionally pepper ("Piper") berries. Despite their small size, they are able to swallow fruits of 5 cm³ volume, which would