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I would like to know which botanical gardens have Nikau palms, Rhopalostylis sapida  growing there. I have found already that they are in the Sydney Botanical Garden and in the San Francisco Botanical Garden. Have they also been planted in tropical botanical gardens which happen to have higher altitude sites?
Looking forward to responses.

Thanks PakNick

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Here in San Diego, they are sprinkled around the zoo and adjacent Balboa park. Not super abundant in any particular location, but there’s lots of them around the city!

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Bret

 

Coastal canyon area of San Diego

 

"In the shadow of the Cross"

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There are heaps at the Melbourne Botanic Gardens. 
 

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Tim Brisbane

Patterson Lakes, bayside Melbourne, Australia

Rarely Frost

2005 Minimum: 2.6C,  Maximum: 44C

2005 Average: 17.2C, warmest on record.

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A few at the Dunedin (NZ) botanical gardens (botans) as per pics below. Some also in Christchurch botans.

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Just love the Botans.  Given baueri can grow alongside some pretty tropical species on Norfolk Island there must be scope to grow Nikau in some quite warm places.

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We have a few at the RTBG in Hobart.

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South Arm, Tasmania, Australia - 42° South

Mild oceanic climate, with coastal exposure.

 

Summer: 12°C (53°F) average min, to 21°C (70°F) average daily max. Up to 40°C (104°F max) rarely.

 

Winter: 6°C (43°F) average min, to 13°C (55°F) average daily max. Down to 0°C (32°F) occasionally, some light frost.

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There's one in the gardens by the bay in Singapore. In the cloud forest dome, which is cooled to simulate a tropical highland climate. I highly doubt it would last long outside there. 

There's a bunch in Tresco abbey gardens on the Scilly Isles, Cornwall, UK. And I think I remember there being some at the Eden Project on the mainland, but I might be wrong about that, there's heaps of NZ plants outside there so I don't remember for certain. 

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