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A friend was cleaning and re-landscaping a property. He called, offered up some palms and I'm like sure.
While planting 2 of them out on the front lawn I thought, "This tropical plant would look nice by the pool". So the 3rd one was planted there. I don't know the exact name of this species so I'll call it needle palm. Ours is above ground pool. Beach balls, floats, every inflatable that went over that side of the pool.... pishshshshhhh. One new pre-inflated vinyl ball didn't last a full minute. Are you laughing yet?
The rest of the story... A few months later, the wife was push mowing the front lawn. She backed her leg into one of those needle points. It raised a huge whelp. So yeah this species can both deflate and inflate. That needle poke hadn't bothered me much but she is definitely allergic. I had to dig up all of them.