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Ah, I see, thanks for that. Royal Palms do survive in Palm Springs (albeit growing slowly due to the dry weather and chilly winters), but I'm sure that the winters of Nevada and South Carolina would kill them outright.
Palm Springs is actually very warm (average lows in winter are just a few degrees cooler than Orlando or Brownsville). With irrigation, Palm Springs is probably a better place to grow tropical palms than coastal SoCal. Royal palms could probably survive for a while in a sheltered area of Las Vegas too.
Palm Springs is actually very warm (average lows in winter are just a few degrees cooler than Orlando or Brownsville). With irrigation, Palm Springs is probably a better place to grow tropical palms than coastal SoCal. Royal palms could probably survive for a while in a sheltered area of Las Vegas too.
I disagree. Palm Springs is very warm, but also much drier than coastal SoCal, and more prone to freezes/cold snaps. This winter we had cold snaps down in SoCal, but it was a few degrees warmer along the coast than out in the desert around Palm Springs. It's the same as how Phoenix is cooler (slightly) than SoCal's coast during the winter time.
But Charleston, not a chance. I could see royals surviving for a while on the islands near the FL/GA border.
As far as the continental US goes, there are also some royal palms growing in extreme southern Louisiana nearly sitting in the Gulf.
We have some royals here in Phoenix, they require more water than other palms though, so that obviously limits there numbers compared to CIDPs or Washingtonias which are suited to the dry weather
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