will Beccariophoenix alfredii grow in Geelong, Victoria Australia?

[AKS74]

hello im from Geelong. i love palms and would love to start a garden. ive been looking at Beccariophoenix alfredii. they look like coco palms (i used to live in Townsville. feeling nostalgic) and ive heard of people having success in colder areas with them. 

[sonoranfans]

they like heat and full sun to grow their fastest.  They are good to about -3C

[Harry’s Palms]

Welcome , you are in the right place! You have a lot of palms available to you in Australia . We have many active members in your area that can help find what you need. Harry

[flplantguy]

There is an active member on here from that area that can give you great advice.  I think chill and possibly frost will be your challenges there, but there are a lot of palms that can take that weather too.  Not sure if the B alfredii can but someone here will know.

[Merlyn]

@AKS74 I have 5 trunking Alfredii here in the NW Orlando area.  They have taken repeated frosts in the 27-28F range with minimal leaf tip burn, roughly -3C.  Three of them were in the backyard cold spot at ~24-25F (-4C) with medium frost back in January 2022 and were also ok.  They had some significant leaf burn, but grew back fine. 

As an example, here are two of them in the backyard in February a couple of days after 24.4F.  You can see some bronzing on the older fronds, especially on the far right side.  The bronzed areas did die off a few weeks later, but all the newer fronds were totally fine:

And as a contrast with some common species, this Alfredii was in a slightly warmer area at ~26F (-3.3C).  It took basically zero damage while the Dypsis/Chrysalidocarpus Lutscens on the left, Caryota Mitis behind it, and Hyophorbe Lagenicaulis on the right were completely defoliated.