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Old 05-31-2014, 12:28 PM
 
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Every Canary Island Date palm I've seen in EP has been young, none over four feet. I think many specimens are actually the dactylifera, the cousin of the Canary Island, this is the variety you see in Iraqi war/Middle East news coverage.
Doesn't El Paso have a similar climate to much of Iraq? They're pretty much on the same latitude and Iraq also has desert and mountains. So what grows well in Iraq might also grow well in the El Paso area (dactylifera palms, pistachio trees--I've ordered pistachios online from a grower near Alamogordo).
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Old 06-01-2014, 12:47 AM
 
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Elevation is too high in most of the Chihuahuan Desert for them. Los Angeles, Phoenix, Yuma, etc. are all low-elevation places with little to no freezing. I'd call even Tucson quite marginal for them.
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Old 05-23-2016, 07:52 PM
 
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Elevation is too high in most of the Chihuahuan Desert for them. Los Angeles, Phoenix, Yuma, etc. are all low-elevation places with little to no freezing. I'd call even Tucson quite marginal for them.
There are lots of older palms planted over 40 years ago both Canary Island and a few True date palms in Sierra Vista, Arizona around 4600' in elevation. Most if not all made it through the great February freeze of 2011.
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