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Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden - Miami, FL

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kinzyjr Grand Master

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Just a few photos from my visit to Fairchild over the holidays:

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Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone (2012): 9b | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (1985, 1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a | 30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone (2012): 9b | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (1985, 1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a | 30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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An ideal lawn:

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An Arenga Engleri:

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Waterfall:

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The Jungle Floor:

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Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone (2012): 9b | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (1985, 1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a | 30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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There were lots of mature coconuts laying on the ground and sprouting from the different types present:

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You can see a young sprout in the background:

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Fiji Dwarf:

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A nice group of palms on the way out:

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Ficus:

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Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone (2012): 9b | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (1985, 1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a | 30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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An island full of coconuts:

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The last three pictures are from the butterfly exhibit:

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Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone (2012): 9b | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (1985, 1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a | 30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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Kinzy, great pictures of an iconic South Florida Tropical Garden! Did you see the Copernicia fallaensis and the Suessian Hyphorbes

What you look for is what is looking

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37 minutes ago, bubba said:

Kinzy, great pictures of an iconic South Florida Tropical Garden! Did you see the Copernicia fallaensis and the Suessian Hyphorbes

I know that I saw the Copernicia and and I think I saw the hyophorbes.  Might have a picture of both somewhere, but it's in a mix of over 300 pictures if I have it.

Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone (2012): 9b | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (1985, 1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a | 30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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gorgeous!!!! great picks man

 

 

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Looking for:  crytostachys hybrids, Pseudophoenix sargentii Leucothrinax morrisii, livingstona canarensis

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