Cold hardy palms

[jimmy sequoia seed]

Do you think where palms seeds are harvested ( northern soarced)  will be more cold hardy ?

[GregVirginia7]

I'll find out about cold storage of needle seeds...squirrels took my ripe seeds right off the parent plant in late fall before I had a chance to harvest them! Hopefully some got buried and forgotten and I'll see some volunteers pop up......if that happens, they will germinate from seeds the squirrels stored in cold winter ground.

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

Probably, but only if taken from their native range or decedents of that range.  Planting a florida minor in Tennessee and then proclaiming the seeds that plant produced as more cold hardy offspring is not accurate.  The most hardy needle and Sabal minor seeds come from Northern Alabama.

Frank has pictures of a stand of needles in GA that stays very subterranean and never gets that large.  Due to keeping most of its trunk below ground it would be more cold hardy.