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Hairball
Yet many are similar, and both states have quite a variety!
California Fan Palm as seen in my previous post:
The Washingtonia filifera or California fan palm (also referred to as the Arizona fan palm) is the only native palm to the United States, specifically the Southwest...
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Hairball
Yet many are similar, and both states have quite a variety!
California Fan Palm as seen in my previous post:
The Washingtonia filifera or California fan palm (also referred to as the Arizona fan palm) is the only native palm to the United States, specifically the Southwest...
Someone needs to learn about palms that are native to the United States.
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roryg
It's a bit chilly here right now: -25F with a wind chill around -55F. Gues I'll have to put on long pants to shovel snow.
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Hairball
Yet many are similar, and both states have quite a variety!
Someone needs to learn about palms that are native to the United States.
Hmmm yeah, seems whoever wrote that made a booboo - I should have double checked before copying and pasting.
This might be more accurate, though I'm no palm expert:
US Palm Trees
For starters, consider those states that have native species of palm tree. For example, Texas not only has palm trees that are native, but has more indigenous species than Hawaii. You heard right: Texas has more native species of palm than Hawaii - which only has one as opposed to Texas’ three. California has one native species, which is the most commonly planted native palm tree in the United States, with specimens growing from Los Angeles to Houston to Miami. Florida has twelve native species, its most spectacular being the Florida Royal Palm, which is a cousin to the more famous non-native Royal Palm.
So one can find native palm trees in California, Arizona, (Nevada, but disputed) Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia.These states are where one will see the most palms in the outdoor landscape, even along the Virginia seacoast, especially Virginia Beach. Thousands upon thousands of palms are commonly seen in such cities as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas, (here and there in Las Cruces, New Mexico) Houston, New Orleans, Mobile, Miami, and all points between. The palms range from the hardiest Chinese Windmill Palm all the way to the Royal Palm and the Coconut Palm, with the latter growing from Los Angeles to Brownsville, Texas to Miami. At Fairchild Tropical Gardens in Miami, for instance, over a thousand species of palm are grown outdoors, and a similar garden in Southern California (Huntington Botanical Gardens) grow hundreds more.