Is there really a place in Baja with three palm species?

[Yunder Wækraus]

Visited Licing Desert in Palm Springs and saw sign saying there is a place in Baja with three palm species growing together. Is this true? Has anyone been there?

[JLeVert]

That Ceiba is not really a good climbing tree!  If you got up, the coming down would be brutal....

[Silas_Sancona]

More than likely this is correct, and in more than just acouple places. If you spend some time looking over pictures taken up and down the east side of Baja, via Google Earth, there are several areas where you can see both Washingtonia and Brahea growing side by side, or above/ below one another in a given canyon. Lots of wild dates as well.

 It is also possible, at least according to SEINET data, that both Brahea armata and b. aculeata may occur in.. or very close together in Guadalupe Canyon, approx. 25mi. south of the 2D hwy. that runs between Tecate and Mexicali just south of the U.S. border.

If true ( Data was originally collected in January of 1997) the B. aculeata specimen might be one of../maybe  the one and only? specimen recorded ( to that time) outside of mainland Sonora and Sinaloa where it has been more commonly recorded. 

Despite being motocross heaven, Baja is huge, and still reletively desolate. Even with all the people who have done botanical work across the region over the past several decades, i'm sure continued field trips further into the less explored areas will turn up surprises, especially using time tested collection techniques, and more modern ways of research ( use of drones to explore harder to access sites, specially equipped with high-zoom capacity cameras to record a specific target)

As for this Cebia, like Bombax and Chorisia, the knobby "spikes" on the trunk can be knocked off, or greatly reduced, with a hammer or steel toed boot so more than likely you would loose your footing trying to climb one, (esp. a younger specimen like the one pictured,) rather than end up impaled. Great tree, can't wait till mine is big enough to start flowering. Barely has any spikes on the trunk yet.