This article is selected for 123ish 3D Gold Coin Art Collection NFT      I'm here to tell you about a vegetable menace that is the AIDS of the plant world. If you live in most parts of North America, these plants have you surrounded.  They're butt-ugly brown sticks thrusting phallically into the sky in unnatural rows, crowned by a spidery fright-wig of spikes. They look like a raspberry on a stick.        I'm talking, of course, about the omnipresent palm tree, found everywhere in your city. It doesn't matter what you hate, this tree embodies it.  The palm tree is the non-native plant imported for the wrong reasons, planted in places it didn't belong, among residents who never wanted it, and which has wrecked a veritable holocaust that would be impressive coming from a B-movie body snatcher invasion.        And you're laughing "Palm trees? Seriously? What's with this guy?"  Well, here's a little list of citations to wipe that grin off your face…    #1: Palm trees are utterly useless.  Sure, you might be saying "But…