Copernicias good choice for warmer 9b locations

[mike-coral gables]

Slight frond burn but otherwise performed well with lows around 29F 

[mike-coral gables]

Some others

[mike-coral gables]

My C Ridiga chugging along ....

[Mandrew968]

I would ask what Copernicia you can't grow rather than what you can...

I would say really only ekmanii and berteroana are the 'probably won't grow for me'. All other species should be fine for you.

 

[mike-coral gables]

That’s good to know , copernicias are a fav of mine . Excuse my untrained eye but what variety is the silvery blue specimen in my first pic ? It did better than the Baileyana. 

[Mandrew968]

I can't make out much detail on individual palms in the first pic but the two most cold hardy Cuban Copernicia are macroglossa and hospita. I am guessing by your description that you are talking about a hospita...

[JubaeaMan138]

Really hospita and macroglossa are more cold hardy than bailey and fallaensis ?

[Eric in Orlando]

Those looks great! They will really stand out in a few years if you are on the Mt. Dora boat tour!

There was a local palm collector who had a non trunking C. macroglossa survive the big 1989 freeze just north of orlando . He recorded 18F 2 nights in a row. And it barely got above freezing in the day in between. That was a brutal duration freeze. Here, all the Cuban Copernicia have grown well. The hardiest I have noticed is C. macroglossa and C. glabrescens. Suprisingly this past winter C. bertroana has hardly any burn. It is a young specimen just a couple feet tall. C. baileyana, fallaense, gigas, hospita, yarey, x sueroana and x vespertilionum have very light burn. 

I can never keep C. eckmanii alive here. I have tried 3 times and it always bud rots in summer, exactly like Brahea edulis does also.

[Missi]

Ahhh....never tire of seeing Copes! 

[Mandrew968]

Interesting to hear about glabrescens being hardy to cold... Too bad it's not a looker... I have heard from Bret and Mike that hospita is very cold hardy too-surprised it burned for you, Eric.

[mike-coral gables]

Some more pics of mine , an ID on the slivery one would be appreciated 

[mike-coral gables]

Better pic of one of my Baileys

[mike-coral gables]

Think the most cold hardy?

[Mandrew968]

Yeah, Mike-the South American Copernicia are a lot more cold hardy.

[Beespalms]

I have bailey, macroglossa, hospita, cowelii, and alba in my backyard in winter park.  This winter I got down to 30 & 28.  

The bailey only had tip burn.  The hospita and cowelii were seemingly unaffected.  They yellowed a bit but no tip burn.  They are both 4-5 year old seedlings. Alba was unaffected.  However the macroglossa burned pretty bad.  It is the largest of the bunch probably 15 years old and 6’ tall.  It defoliated to the bud.  It has recovered nicely so far pushing 2-3 slowly opening leaves.

28 killed a lot of my zone pushing palms.  Chambeyronia, satekentia, burretkentia, euterpe edulis, archo. Cunninghamiana Illawarra.

[Mandrew968]

You mentioned a lot of palms that can handle the cold you got... Sounds like frost got on your plants; frost is very damaging...