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Edit: forum functionality is weird right now.

Would like to build a list of desert native palm species/genera.  Not just ones that live well here, but ones that come from deserts, too.  So far I have:
 

  • Livistona
    • Livistona carinensis
       
  • Medemia
    • Medemia argun
       
  • Hyphaene
    • Hyphaene thebaica
    • Hyphaene compressa
    • Hyphaene petersiana
       
  • Phoenix
    • Phoenix dactylifera
    • Phoenix atlantica
    • Phoenix caespitosa
    • Phoenix theophrasti (?)
    • Phoenix reclinata
       
  • Brahea
    • Brahea armata
    • Brahea brandegeei
    • Brahea moorei
    • Brahea clara
       
  • Nannorrhops
    • Nannorrhops ritchiana
       
  • Washingtonia
    • Washingtonia filifera
    • Washingtonia robusta
       

What am I missing?!

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The Livistona species of central and northwestern Australia.

Sabal uresana

Jubaea - but difficult here

Trithrinax species

Ravenea xerophila

Copernicia species of South America

Hi 70˚, Lo 41˚

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Casas Adobes - NW of Tucson since July 2014

formerly in the San Carlos region of San Diego

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  On 3/16/2021 at 3:28 AM, Tom in Tucson said:

 

Sabal uresana

 

 

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I was gonna recommend Sabal uresana

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Habitat photos of Chamaerops humilis sure look desert-y

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Corpus Christi, TX, near salt water, zone 9b/10a! Except when it isn't and everything gets nuked.

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Those Brahea Bella are really that close to US border? Man it's like when they determined the border they made sure to put it just keep all the Brahea's out of the US.  Brahea almost stone throwing distance from Big Bend in TX, also others just over the border from AZ, and CA.  On a similar note, Palo brea, my personal favorite of the palo verde trees just misses being native to AZ but is native a short distance over the Mexican border.

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Corpus Christi, TX, near salt water, zone 9b/10a! Except when it isn't and everything gets nuked.

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  On 3/16/2021 at 2:26 PM, Xerarch said:

Habitat photos of Chamaerops humilis sure look desert-y

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This one along with Jubaea are natives of Mediterranean climates with enough winter rain to avoid desert classification and should not be considered desert palms.  Part of the reason why these palms do fine in my dry summer / wet winter PNW climate while true desert species (W. filifera and N. ritchiana) fail. 

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Zone 8b, Csb (Warm-summer Mediterranean climate). 1,940 annual sunshine hours 
Annual lows-> 19/20: -5.0C, 20/21: -5.5C, 21/22: -8.3C, 22/23: -9.4C, 23/24: 1.1C (so far!)

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  On 3/16/2021 at 3:28 AM, Tom in Tucson said:

The Livistona species of central and northwestern Australia.

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The Livistona palms of northwestern Australia are in a monsoonal climate in sandstone/tropical woodland environment rather than desert. Although they go through a long dry and hot dry season they are usually near water, in creeks, springs or seepage areas. Livistonas mariae mariae and alfredii are more your desert palms but they also are near water.

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