[Thorn]

So, I have this little palm (it is about four feet tall, and has a long, very slender, dark green stalk with bright white old-leaf-scars, and the new fronds all come out of the top.) The palm has been in the family for years, and years, as long as I can remember, as I remember my grandmother had it at her house, and we just recently aquired it (about 6 or so years ago, lol... okay, not that recent)































But anyways, it has these weird bright green, slender branchy things comeing out from the bases of the fronds. They have little tiny knobs all over the branchy things that alternate kinda from side-to-side (on eitehr side of the weird slender, bright green branchy things).































Yeah, so anyone have any idea what it is? Is it some kind of flower? (I didn't know palms could do that!...) Oh, and my orchid has also decided to re-flower -so conditions are favorable for this kind of thing?