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Eric in Orlando is right. I live in El Paso, Texas and found this Phoenix growing in the middle of concrete buildings. This palm has been here in the past fifteen years and it survived the epic freeze we had in Feb 2011 of 2F. That freeze killed many other palms in the area, specially the washingtonia robustas, but the canariensis and dactyliferas have been growing fine somehow. Here is a picture of this date palm. This winter had a low of 17F, two weeks ago so yeah the leaves are a bit burned off but it will make it.

I don't know if D. minuta is smaller, but I have Rhapis 'Super Dwarf' which is very small. However I think they only exist as one sex, so they can't reproduce, and it's not something you would find in the wild, like D. minuta. By the way, does anyone know for sure if 'Super Dwarf' is a hybrid of Rhapis excelsa? That is what the label said. Thank you!