Palms in Medellin

[Xerarch]

3 hours ago, GMann said:

I was curious as to how long those Lipstick palms would survive in a city with an average daily low temperature of 62 degrees year round. With a little sleuthing of the background buildings I was able to locate the palms on Google Street View. 

They survived until at least July of 2017:

Then on the next Streetview update in November 2018 they had vanished

 

Still they lasted at least 4 years. Not bad. 

The fact that the Latania is also gone at the same time may indicate that they were just removed all together and did not succumb to cold damage. But then Latanias are also quite cold sensitive. Perhaps there were some cold nights at some point in late 2017 / early 2018 that took both palms out....

Yeah but highs in the low 80's all year, daily mean in the low 70's all year.  I have a hard time thinking even lipstick could die from cold there, had to have been removed for whatever other reason.  BTW those photos are crazy, something about that fence, palms, guys on bike, traffic light posts, looks photoshopped, I'm not saying it actually is, just turned out funny.

[Xenon]

4 hours ago, GMann said:

Still they lasted at least 4 years. Not bad. 

The fact that the Latania is also gone at the same time may indicate that they were just removed all together and did not succumb to cold damage. But then Latanias are also quite cold sensitive. Perhaps there were some cold nights at some point in late 2017 / early 2018 that took both palms out....

Cold nights aren't happening at 6 degrees from the equator and less than 5000 feet elevation. Medellin actually has a very similar climate to the wetter parts of Hawaii at sea level, and you know how well the palms grow there! 

[howfam]

On 4/1/2013 at 11:32 PM, Jeff in St Pete said:

 

Some people thought I was a little crazy for going to Medellin, but I fell in love with the area and felt it was definitely somewhere I could live. I agree that Archontophoenix is widely used in landscaping, but in the area where I was staying in El Poblado, there were more S. sancona planted out.

Thanks a lot Jeff.  The pictures really speak volumes on the quality of the palm flora in this area. I'm especially interested in Syagrus sancona, a very neat, clean palm that has a lot of potential for cultivation here in N. Florida where I am. I just sprouted some seeds and can't wait to pot them up.  Again, thanks.