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Canal Cruise Through My Cocoa Beach Hood

Cocoa Beach Jason

By Cocoa Beach Jason
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My wife and son go on little boat cruises through the canals in my neighborhood. I figured I would snap a few pics just to show some of the palms in the hood up here. Most are obviously pretty common. But we are pretty far north latitude wise in central Florida.

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Bizzies, Travelers, and good size hyophorbes. By the way I am only narrating this bc it is making me post some content other than pics. Clearly you guys know what these are so forgive.

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Ribbon, older cocos nucifera, foxtails. Supposedly this is zone 9 but i've been claiming 10a bc coconuts like this are everywhere.

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Small Dypsis, Paurotis, rookie archontophoenix (please tell me which one bc I can't tell these apart).

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Coconutman, This past winter I saw 37 in the coldest part of my yard which was the lowest I recorded in my yard the last few years. I know we saw frost in 2010 but I can't tell you the ultimate low (I heard it got down to 30f then and 2010 was known as an epic cold year for low and mainly duration of cold). I didn't measure back in 2010 bc my palm addiction wasn't yet in full swing. Last year (2013-2014 winter) we got down to only 42.

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Eric in Orlando Grand Master

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Nice specimens! Cocoa Beach is definitely zone 10.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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Cool pics. Thanks for posting.

Andrei W. Konradi, Burlingame, California.  Vicarious appreciator of palms in other people's gardens and in habitat

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I enjoyed the cruise, thanks for posting.

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Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
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In Cocoa Beach, even the native gumbo limbo (Bursera simaruba) trees died in the 1989 freeze, and there's been bad years since. In my neighborhood, about half of the coconuts died in 2010-11. In the photos, I'm impressed to see so many coconuts and Carpies, which have suffered cold damage in my yard.

Fla. climate center: 100-119 days>85 F
USDA 1990 hardiness zone 9B
Current USDA hardiness zone 10a
4 km inland from Indian River; 27º N (equivalent to Brisbane)

Central Orlando's urban heat island may be warmer than us

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1989 is the modern day litmus paper test for Florida. By far it was not the worse freeze ever but it will happen again in the next whatever years. In the mean time even those South of Miami, as I am, will get away with growing a lot of things that will die the next time it happens.

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Call me anytime to chat about transplanting palms.

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Here are some more pics as we launched this evening for a little sunset cruise. Again all of these are very common but just growing in an uncommonly northerly location.

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Thanks for the pics Jason. Albeit common to you guys, they are still cool to see by us northern Floridians. I have always liked the gumbo limbos as well.

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Awesome

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Unbelievable micro climate you enjoy there that far north...envious!

David Simms zone 9a on Highway 30a

200 steps from the Gulf in NW Florida

30 ft. elevation and sandy soil

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Eric in Orlando Grand Master

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That is an awesome specimen of Pandanus utilis!

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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I envy you, and it looks like your area is a solid 10B. No way is it 9B! I wish Corpus Christi could grow coconut palms like that. There are a few nice mature ones similar to those in deep South Texas around Brownsville, Port Isabel, and South Padre Island, where coconut palms and sea grape (go well together) should be used A LOT MORE OFTEN!!!

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oo-wee baby doll

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