Southernmost Archontophoenix...?

[sipalms]

Came across this photo of some works at a property at Akaroa Harbour, 43.8 South..... noted a healthy looking Bangalow palm in the background. This surely has to be the southernmost known one in the world - even further south than Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Apologies for the low res pics.

 

[Tyrone]

You could be right. The only way to get further south than NZ would be to look in South America in Chile somewhere.

[RedRabbit]

Wow, interestingly that's exactly the same latitude as the northernmost Archontophoenix (that I'm aware of at least):  

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.7737275,7.5015195,3a,75y,342.99h,97.18t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sWhoAa4t2UD9fKret46taNA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

The equivalent latitude in the US is Portland, Maine.  

 

Edited April 17, 2019 by RedRabbit

[GottmitAlex]

Wow

[LivistonaFan]

Not an Archontophoenix, but a few streets further away I found two big Caryota and one of them is flowering! That should be quite rare at this latitude as well: 

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.772275,7.4972352,3a,90y,328.44h,122.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJip6UvTjLDRozuekFqHxNw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[NorCalKing]

Crazy!

I'm at 37° and mine gets a little roughed up some winters. (Northern hemisphere btw)

Edited April 17, 2019 by NorCalKing

[Rickybobby]

That’s .8 degrees more than me and I’m in. Canada 

[cbmnz]

Good find. Must be the most Southern, unless somewhere on the West Coast there is one hiding.

According to Page 26 (27 of the PDF) here https://www.niwa.co.nz/static/web/canterbury_climatology_second_ed_niwa.pdf

Akaroa has seen a temperature of -8.0C, that looks very low.  Lower than Christchurch City. That most likely occurred a very long time ago then, way before that Banglow was planted.  Some NZ stations have record lows lower than others, contrary to expectations, that usually turns out to be because they have much longer duration of records, and some low temperatures occurred in the 1940's or earlier that just don't seem to occur any more. 

 

 

 

[cbmnz]

Actually the -8C there was in 1978. Nothing much below -3C since 2000 and Bangalow's can handle that.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xWJml0irx1RjZpe0CzpHYPPWJXOTmhC2/view?usp=sharing