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Did any East Central Florida Chambeyronia survive last winter's freeze?

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I'm hoping there are at least a few C. macrocarpa that survived the mid 20's F. If yes, please post photos.

No one cares about your current yard temperature 🙃

I had three total. Two died and the third was making a recovery, but would have never looked right with pretty severe narrowing of the trunk where all the damaged leaves fell off post freeze, in light of that, I cut it down. Two of three were large about 20-25ft. My yard got down to about 28. I removed a bunch of palms because of how disfigured their trunks would have been.

Im not on EC Florida, but saw 24 in the big freeze and 12 freezes total, all light except the big one. Mine are small still but survived with minimal cover (weedmatt in a desperate attempt to save them). It worked but they look a bit ratty now and are not trunking yet, i will try and get photos a bit later. They also dealt with 25 last winter when the panhandle got all the snow, no protection, and almost defoliated then too. Sandy soil i keep dry before and after i think helped as well as canopy and smaller size. They do see some wind from the NW, but i tried to block the worst of it.

Similar to @flplantguy, I'm west of US-27, so I consider the location West Central FL. Here on the ranch, the only survivor is a Chambeyronia oliviformis (syn. Kentiopsis oliviformis). The Houailou held on for dear life for a while, but eventually gave up the ghost. The Chambeyronia macrocarpa and the Watermelon variety died about 2 months after the cold from their injuries. There may be some survivors in the city gardens, but we'll see as my schedule permits.

My guess is that there are probably some survivors on the east and southeast sides of large lakes in Orlando. A few of those locales stayed at or above that magical 26F mark where stuff like these tends to skate by with some damage.

Lakeland, FLUSDA Zone 2023: 10a  2012: 9b  1990: 9a | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962)

I had two, both with one or two rings of trunk under canopy. The smaller one had a plastic tarp that was an attempt at wind break fall on it, and succumbed rapidly to the freeze. The other retained 2 green fronds, but I made a rookie mistake and did not turn off lawn irrigation the following week. It and several other species (to include some hardy species) slowly died from fungal infection after the heat began. Saw 24.1f on the closest sensor.

You folks certainly had a go of it! Sorry for your losses. Harry

We had some survive here at Leu, I will get some pics.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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