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native palm oasis in western Arizona?


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I was just reading this article (excerpt below) about Washingtonia Filifera:

http://www.desertusa.com/mag99/may/stories/fanpalms.html

"Fossil evidence indicates that 10 million years ago, this species extended throughout the Mojave and Sonoran deserts, to the Pacific Coast of California. Today, due to geologic and climatic changes, they are found only in southeastern California (Death Valley National Park south into Baja California) with a few specimens ranging into extreme southern Nevada and western Arizona."

Are there any palm oasis locations in western Arizona and the southern tip of Nevada? If so, are they like the palm canyons in the inland deserts of southern California?

This article seems to suggest that there are still some old native/wild patches of Washingtonia Filifera trees growing in western Arizona and even the southern extremity of Nevada. True or false?

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Hmmm?

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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True!

Kofa in Arizona and Moapa in Nevada both have wild/native filifera

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And now we need pictures. ...to confirm. ..lol

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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Do you mean inside the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona?

When you say "Moapa" in Nevada, do you mean the town itself or one of the two state parks immediately to the south of Moapa?

Thanks.

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There are (or was) a pretty great oasis of Washingtonia at Guadalupe Hot Springs in Baja, Mexico. Been a long time since I've been there, hell of a drive on a dry riverbed. Guadalupe is situated at the base of the Sierra Juarez mountains, about 80 miles south of Tecate and Rumerosa. The area is full of caves and petroglyphs and there are thousands of native brahea armata growing up the side canyons. Wonderful place. Unfortunately some idiot people liked to torch the washingtonia beards and watch them light up so I don't know what kind of state they are in these days.

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