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Moutain Palms?

PalmTreeDude
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in COLD HARDY PALMS

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What are some species of palms that grow at high elevations? I know South America has a lot, it would be interesting to be in tropical mountains. And doesn't some date palms grow in, or near mountains in the middle east? 

PalmTreeDude

Nannorrhops grows in the mountains in iran and Afghanistan. 

Phoenix loureiroi var. humilis - 6000ft (1800m)

Trachycarpus martuanus 'Nepal' - 7900ft (2400m)

Trachycarpus takil - up to 8200ft (2500m). Not tropical at all.

Trachycarpus latisectus - up to 7900ft (2400). Subtropical climate and it grows in rainforest.

 

 

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    Inside the tropics (22°17’S) Lytocaryum insigne = Syagrus insignis up to 1800 m altitude.

    My photos at flickr: flickr.com/photos/palmeir/albums

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    On 7/4/2017, 12:06:42, Sanips said:

    Phoenix loureiroi var. humilis - 6000ft (1800m)

    Trachycarpus martuanus 'Nepal' - 7900ft (2400m)

    Trachycarpus takil - up to 8200ft (2500m). Not tropical at all.

    Trachycarpus latisectus - up to 7900ft (2400). Subtropical climate and it grows in rainforest.

     

     

    Wow I looked up some pictures of Takil and I wish I saw that growing in the mountains here.

    PalmTreeDude

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    Phoenix reclinata - 3000m in equatorial Africa

    Pinanga capitata - 3000m in Borneo

    Calamus spp. - 3000m in Indonesia and vicinity

    true Ravenea glauca - 1800m in Madagascar

    Basselinia moorei - 900m - 1600m in New Caledonia

     

    Jason Dewees

    Inner Sunset District

    San Francisco, California

    Sunset zone 17

    USDA zone 10a

    21 inches / 530mm annual rainfall, mostly October to April

    Humidity averages 60 to 85 percent year-round.

    Summer: 67F/55F | 19C/12C

    Winter: 56F/44F | 13C/6C

    40-year extremes: 96F/26F | 35.5C/-3.8C

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    Not to forget the south american Ceroxylon species

    Carambeí, 2nd tableland of the State Paraná , south Brazil.

    Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm

     

    I am seeking for cold hardy palms!

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    Prestoea acuminata montana

    many species of cloud forest Chamadoreas

    Juania

    Lepidorrachis

    Meg

    Palms of Victory I shall wear

    Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
    Florida
    Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
    Elevation: 15 feet

    I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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