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I thought it may be interesting to create a catalog of how many and which palm species are native to each of the 56 USA states and inhabited territories. Who else is on board and wants to help? Feel free to point out any errors I may have made. So far, I've counted the following numbers of palm s...
Catalog of palms native to each USA state/territory? - DISCUSSING PALM ...
This little palm from Fiji is quite a stunner with it’s dark grey almost black crown shaft, thin trunk, and droopy crown. I originally acquired three bare root seedlings, one died, one is on the puny side, and the other one is swoon worthy.
This feather palm is a Pindo Palm, Butia capitata, and has survived near zero degree temperatures in Midland, El Paso and Fort Worth. Another feather palm, the Canary Island Date Palm, Phoenix canariensis, with its attractive trunk, thrives in Austin's climate .
Hello fellow palm lovers, I live in the Washington, D.C. area but have recently become interested, some might say obsessed, with Albuquerque and its climate and palms. I don't know what it is but something about it fascinates me in particular, the fact that it has such variable microclimates and ...
New York City is a high end zone 7b, cold hardy palms are very rare, but they’re there if you know where to look. Tropical palms, however, are all over the place during the warmer months. Sabal minor growing out in the open in Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan: It’s flowering, hopefully it seeds ...