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Sep 4, 2023 1:08 PM CST
Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Greenhouse Tropicals
Alice I was looking at their website. I have some of the palms that they have for sale in the 'Shivering Palms' (I am assuming they named it this because the palms are kind of cold hardy) nursery in my greenhouse. Some would probably be considered hardy here, but I'm too scared to risk it.
Lytocaryum weddelianum, I have 2 in my greenhouse, these have become endangered. They are supposedly hardy to 25F.

Allagoptera arenaria, I also have 2. These are maybe the most cold hardy they offer, 20-25F.

Chuniophoenix nana has a documented cold hardiness to 9B, I am not a 9B so best if I keep that under protection too

Kerriodoxa elegans, the White Elephant Palm, is only cold hardy to about 34F. Although...there is a specimen up on the UF campus in the McCarty Hall palm garden that was planted years ago by a friend of mine when he was a college student here, that has survived all these years. But the microclimate there, between the buildings on the campus with all the radiant heat generated, is undoubtedly helping that out.

Most of the other palms on their site are common here in North FL
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