Mature, fruiting coconut in St Cloud FL

[Keith N Tampa (ex SoJax)]

I was amazed to find this large tree so far north.  St Cloud is a suburb of Orlando.  My Webpage

[Palmy]

thats amazing.

[Walt]

Very nice. No doubt that coconut (and Ficus lyrata/fiddle leaf fig) is growing close to or around a lake , and St. Cloud is situated at the south end of East Lake Tohopekaliga, a good sized lake.

I can state empirically that good sized lakes in central Florida can account for a 1/2 to 1 USDA hardiness zone, at least during a radiational cooling night.

Trivia: And speaking of St. Cloud, Florida, in 1963 a movie was filmed there (released in 1964) called Two Thousand Maniacs. It was a grade B horror flick I saw at the local drive-in theatre at the time. It was the 100th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, and dead Confederate soldiers were raising from the dead and stopping and torturing and killing Yankee tourists that drove through the area, shouting "The South Shall Rise Again!"