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Another 2021 Texas Coconut Survivor

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Found this today when I was taking my kids to a local park.  It's off Southmost Road and Monterrey Drive in Brownsville.  I only got a street view snip and not a photo because there wasn't really a good place to stop and get a picture.

I didn't get a chance to talk to the owner, but I'm inferring it's a 2021 survivor because:

a.) It's got like 10 ft of trunk

b.) It's in a good microclimate

c.) the house and the neighborhood aren't super bougie... and a coconut planted at that size since 2021 would have had to be trucked in and craned into the backyard.  I feel comfortable making the assumption that the owners of that house don't have $15k to drop on a palm, transportation cost, craning and planting.

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Very nice find, that's also one of the warmest areas. I think it was "only" 24-25F there in 2021

Hard to make out but looks like it was there in 2011 too

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Jonathan
 

Neighbor down the street had a coconut back in the day too. Notice the the three big trees in the capture, all 3 big Ficus benjamina. One of the warmest periods ever, hopefully soon repeated!

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Jonathan
 

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5 minutes ago, Xenon said:

Neighbor down the street had a coconut back in the day too. Notice the the three big trees in the capture, all 3 big Ficus benjamina. One of the warmest periods ever, hopefully soon repeated!

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Honestly the difference between Brownsville (even where I live, on the north side near Olmito) and Mission is wild.  West of La Feria the royals got smoked.  They're fine but they're brown and ugly now.  Down in Brownsville, the big royals look like almost nothing happened.  The big foxtails look like actually nothing happened.  And that coconut looked maybe slightly bronzy but minor cosmetic at worst.

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