FREEZE DAMAGE DATA

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   Acrocomia aculeata

   August 20, 2010 by Kathryn

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   Grown from seed and planted in the ground in spring 2005 Damaged in hurricane Gustav in 2008 - lost leaves on all but the north side Experienced snow in December 2008 with a low temperature of 32ºF warming up later in the day - no damage from this cold other than the bent leaves due to the weight

   

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   Actinokentia

   January 17, 2007 by Geoff

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   Two seedlings in yard, 2' tall plant somewhat protected by a nearby bush was only barly hit by 27F (slight leaf burn). 1' tall seedling in back in raised bed with shade cloth lost all but one leaf.

   

   Last reply by avb, June 25, 2007
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   Adonidia merrillii

   March 30, 2007 by Joe palma

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   10 one gallon plants, +1 yr old, 2 leaves, 8-10", saw 32F, under 65% shade cloth, no wind exposure, frost at least one night, all dead.

   

   Last reply by D. Morrowii, February 17, 2022

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   Advice for Dypsis decaryi in 9a

   February 18, 2022 by Almisa

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   Well - here’s my précious Triangle palm -I rescued her 2 years ago - she survived last year’s 14 freeze temps here in St Augustine while tucked against the east side of the house during a construction project. She is now placed in a lovely but lonely location in the open on the south end of the house near the pool. Our last frost day was 2 weekends ago. Fronds have evolved to this deep bronze over the past week. I applied copper fungicide to the spear area but that’s it. Any suggestions?

   

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   Aiphanes minima

   February 18, 2012 by Jason in Orlando

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   From February 2012 advective freeze. The ultimate low temp is unknown. I had a 15 gallon A. minima left outside when the forecast low was to be about 37F/2C. Cold front came through about 4am local time and dropped the temperature from about 40F to near freezing in two hours with high winds. Water in bird bath was frozen. There was no frost. The palm had no overhead protection, but it was sheltered from the NW wind by the house and the orchid shadehouse, as well as the fronds of other neaby palms of similar size. A week later there is no damage other than some minor leaf spotting on one of the more exposed fronds and some slight burn. Temperature was likely not …

   

   Last reply by naraj, August 14, 2013
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   Allagoptera arenaria

   April 12, 2012 by blake_tx

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   Allagoptera arenaria in a 5g A dry 24f - No Damage

   

   Last reply by DAVEinMB, July 11, 2022

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   Allagoptera leucocalyx

   January 11, 2010 by mnorell

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   Small pinnate specimen (1gal size), planted mid-2009, exposed position. Looked fine through a few light/moderate frosts & freezes as low as 28.6F. Began to show moderate-to-major foliar damage with two back-to-back freezes to 25.9F. The big freeze of 2010 (64 hours continuously below freezing, lows of 23, 18.4, 19.7, 19.8) has completely toasted exposed foliage. I have it mulched to the spear and expect it to recover from below this point. This one is not as leaf-hardy as I had hoped, it seems no hardier from that perspective than A. arenaria.

   

   Last reply by Jamesasb, March 6, 2018

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   An Early Jan 2008 FL freeze

   January 2, 2008 by fastfeat

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   OK folks, I've been in Texas for a few weeks, chilling my bones for a while, but I've been watching the pending gloom and doom for the first week of '08 in FL. Not saying I want to see the damage, but let's start seeing the results. Here's to a warmer rest of 2008... Ken.

   

   Last reply by waykoolplantz, January 19, 2008
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    Any hope?

    February 26, 2022 by LI_Pets

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    In Florida a few weeks ago we had low temps. I see new growth, how might I proceed to save this palm?

    

    Last reply by LI_Pets, February 27, 2022
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    Archontophoenix alexandrae

    January 19, 2007 by Jim in Los Altos

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    26F minimum, very little frost. My unprotected almost 3' tall one is showing about 40% leaf burn.

    

    Last reply by Palmsbro, March 31, 2018

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    Archontophoenix alexandrae -freeze damage and recovery.

    December 16, 2022 by cbmnz

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    See this pdf. Easier to properly lay out the story and not have to reduce the resolution of each photograph to stop the post becoming huge. Untitled document-5.pdf

    

    Last reply by cbmnz, December 16, 2022

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    Archontophoenix alexandrae severely damaged

    March 11, 2009 by Rafael

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    Hi everybody, I am a portuguese friend of palms, since I got a new home and needed to buid a landscape. I have some cocos plumosa, and archontophoenix alexandrae. The weather here is not so good as in other places in wich you live, but we have temperatures, medium, betwen 5 and 25 degrees. In Winter, sometimes we have -5 degrees, and this winter we got there, and my specimes became almost totaly burn. Two small have the center burn, and i thing they wont recover, but another bigger has few parte green, however the new part growing is burn at the top. I dont know what to do, must i have some special care? I will wait for the spring effects. I will upload some fotos lat…

    

    Last reply by Rafael, December 14, 2009
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    Archontophoenix alexandrae x cunninghamiana

    January 4, 2012 by Palmə häl′ik

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    Anyone else growing this hybrid King Palm... Thanks. ~Ray.

    

    Last reply by Jeff Searle, January 6, 2012
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    archontophoenix c Archontophoenix cunninghamiana

    January 27, 2021 by ExperimentalGrower

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    Vallejo, CA, (USDA Zone 9b/Sunset Zone 17) Advective freeze last night, with frost. Dew point hovered just below actual temperatures during the coldest hours. Humidity was considerably high for an event like this in Northern California. Generally during similar cold events humidity levels out in my area are consistently quite low. ~70% damage on horizontally exposed leaves. This is a juvenile 5 multiple clump planted last July 4th, 2020 so a pretty dense set of leaves packed into a small area, which coincidentally results in some leaves being exposed and damaged, and others protected and damage free. This clump is under wide open sky near a west facing wooden fence, less …

    

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    Archontophoenix cunninghamiana 1 2

    January 15, 2007 by elHoagie

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    30F (night one) - no damage 27F (night two) - no damage to three of them, one with a few brown spots on the leaves. All 4 specimens have some trunk, but are not mature.

    

    Last reply by Foxpalms, July 17, 2022

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    Archontophoenix cunninghamiana

    January 12, 2010 by Rafael

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    This one faced three back to back nights with -1,8ºC, -2,6ºC and -3,8ºC, this one with not light frost. This in December. These recent days, one isolated and frosty night at -3,6ºC. In the middle one night at -0,5ºC. Then, some strong frost in two nights. Light frost in another two nights. However, this palm is located in the south side of the yard, in a place almost non atacked by frost. And is a big sized palm. As you see, not yet totaly burned. I am expecting the recovering, after February

    

    Last reply by Rafael, August 14, 2016

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    Archontophoenix cunninghamiana after the freeze

    March 18, 2009 by Walt

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    Last January I had three back to back nights/mornings when temperatures dropped into the 20s F, with my worst night dropping to 23.5 degrees in the open yard. Under tree canopy my lowest low was 28 degrees. As such, about 80 percent of my crown shaft palms were devastated, except for some, for some reason, that were located on two particular areas of my property. For some reason these palms had very little cold/frost damage. But to my point, the A. cunninghamiana palm below was totally defoiliated from the three nights of freezing temperatures. Last year I made a posting asking when I could expect my A. cunninghamina and alexandrae species palms to start producing seed…

    

    Last reply by enigma99, December 15, 2009
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    Archontophoenix cunninghamiana, maybe hybrid

    April 23, 2010 by Rafael

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    One night -3,8ºC, another -3,6ºC, three nights -2,8ºC, and many other with 0ºC to -1,5ºC, not in more than four consecutive days. This palm is 4,5 mts tall, 2,5 mts trunked. Leaves almost 100% burned, is now coming back, but still looks bad. Maybe in October it will be looking green all over or almost...

    

    Last reply by Rafael, April 23, 2010
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    Archontophoenix maxima

    January 15, 2007 by PALM MOD

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    Archontophoenix maxima, in ground, 8 feet tall overall, 12" of clear trunk. 24.1F, no frost, no overhead canopy 50%-60% leafburn, some of the understory leaves were spared.

    

    Last reply by Yunder Wækraus, December 19, 2016
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    Archontophoenix myolensis

    January 16, 2007 by MattyB

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    Archontophoenix myolensis, in ground 12" clear trunk, 6 foot overall. 24.1F, no frost, no overhead canopy 50% leaf burn (took 28F, no frost, night before w/ no damage)

    

    Last reply by falcon1988, February 6, 2009
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    Archontophoenix purpurea

    January 15, 2007 by doubravsky

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    24 degrees... two specimens in different areas of the yard. Both from 5 gallon pots 3/05. The more exposed one - severe browning on all leaves. The other - some spotting, some brown tips. Definitely seems more tender than cunninghamia Edit 1/30/07.. both appear dead. Way more tender than cunninghamia.

    

    Last reply by avb, June 25, 2007
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    Archontophoenix tuckeri

    January 16, 2007 by frisbee

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    Back in the summer day (Aug'06)...

    

    Last reply by Dave-Vero, July 11, 2011

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    are my queen palms dead?

    June 5, 2010 by pondlover

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    I live in South Louisiana and we were hit really hard this winter by continuous long lasting freezes. I have 16 queen palms in my backyard around my swimming pool and pond area that have not started sending out green shoots yet. A local nursery suggested topping them off so we did that 4 or 5 days ago down to where you could see a little white center( not green). On some, we had to go down about 2 feet to find this. We also fertilized with a liquid palm fertilizer. 4 of these trees are about 20 ft tall, with trunks 1 1/2 ft across. Most of the rest are 2-4 yr old trees. I already replaced 4 of the really small ones I know were dead. Is it time to give up and start rep…

    

    Last reply by Steve the palmreader, June 16, 2013
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    Are my Queen Palms dead?

    May 24, 2017 by maholla

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    New to Palm talk, so please excuse me if this is a redundant topic. I live on the North side of Houston TX - and have, or had, seven queen palms in the 8-10 ft range that were in the ground in my yard for 3 full years. In Jan 2017, we had a hard freeze, around 19 degrees, that lingered well into the next day. All the queen palms took it very hard, with all losing all their fronds over 1-2 months. I waited a couple of months, and saw nothing positive happening even though we had an extraordinarily warm Feb - in the upper 80's. I'd read about stumping, cutting off a foot or so until you didn't see any rot. I cut three - still about 8' tall - on two I saw cores in th…

    

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    Areca catechu

    February 3, 2010 by bubba

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    Two weeks after cold:

    

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