are any palms native to florida?
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Non-Native Palm Trees Instead, according to Florida ecologists, only 12 palm tree species are actually native to Florida. Therefore, the majority of the palm trees that people see each year are not from this area. In fact, most of Florida's palm trees have been imported from other places like South America and Asia.
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['Alexander Palm Tree (Ptychosperma elegans) ... ', 'Canary Island Date Palm (Phoenix canariensis) ... ', 'Chinese Fan Palm (Livistona chinensis) ... ', 'Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera) ... ', 'Fishtail Palm (Caryota mitis) ... ', 'Foxtail Palm (Wodyetia bifurcata) ... ', 'Latania Palm (Latania spp.) ... ', 'Paurotis Palm (Acoelorrhaphe wrightii)']
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Southern California's native palms grow far away from Los Angeles, in spring-fed Colorado Desert oases tucked deep inside steep mountain ravines. ... Native Washingtonia filifera palms growing in an oasis near Palm Springs, circa 1900. Courtesy of the USC Libraries – California Historical Society Collection.
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Florida gardeners can choose from several types of lawn grasses, including bahiagrass (Paspalum notatum Flugge). It was originally introduced to Florida as a pasture grass, but is also a low-maintenance option for home lawns. A popular cultivar for home lawns is 'Argentine'.
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The saw palmetto is native to the Alabama Gulf Coast. It is a small fan palm that only grows between three and six feet tall. They usually grow in clumps and prefer the sandy soil of coastal areas or pine forests. The center of the frond has sharp spines that can easily tear your skin open.
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FLORIDA'S CITRUS HISTORY: Citrus trees are NOT native to Florida. In 1493, citrus came to the New World on Columbus' voyage to the island of Hispaniola. A few years later, another Spanish explorer, Ponce de Leon, brought citrus seeds to Florida.
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Palms most commonly seen in Baja are the Mexican Fan Palm (indigenous to Baja) which can grow upwards of 30 meters, making it one of the tallest palm trees, the Coconut (cocotera palm brought by Jesuit Missionaries) and Date palms (also brought to Baja years ago).
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Palm trees aren't native to Italy, but are now commonplace throughout the country, including in Rome, the Riviera and, yes, even Milan. ... Indeed, some palms in Italy are older than the country itself, having been brought to the peninsula by novelty-seeking aristocrats as far back as the 18th century.
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['Indoor Palms. Areca Palm (Dypsis Lutescens) Kentia Palm (Howea Forsteriana) Parlor Palm (Chamaedorea Elegans) ... ', 'Cold Hardy Palms. Chinese Fan Palm (Livistona Chinensis) Needle Palmetto (Rhapidophyllum Hystrix) Pindo Palm (Butia Capitata) ... ', 'Container Palms. Fishtail Palm (Caryota Mitis) Bottle Palm (Hyophorbe Lagenicaulis)']
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These include the Virgin Islands' three native palm trees [tyre palm (Cocothrinax argentea), royal palm (Roystonia borinquena) and sabal palm (Sabal causarium)].
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The desert fan palms native to California grow where there is water— for all that palm trees are associated culturally with the desert, they require an immense amount of water. ... Over 2,500 species of palm tree exist and live in various climates– deserts and rainforests alike.
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It is one of the last places on the North American continent where one might expect to find verdant groves of palm trees, yet desert fan palms (Washingtonia filifera) do exist here. ... The species is the only endemic palm in the western United States and the most massive in all of North America.
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No palms are native to the UK. However loads will grow here. Chamaerops humilis (the European fan palm) is the most northerly natural occurring palm in the world. The northernmost reach of its range is southern France.
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Flamingos have been considered a non-native, invasive species in Florida for much of the last century. Now there is an effort to declare them — once and for all — native to Florida. Flamingos were wiped out by hunting in the late 1800s, and most of those found in Florida today are captive.
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Sabal palmetto is one of the four native palms in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Here on Hilton Head Island, it grows in abundance in the maritime forest and beach dunes.
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VA Beach has palms - not native, but they do survive. Charlotte, NC has palm trees as well though it is still quite rare to see them even though a small variety of them can in fact survive here.
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Fourteen species of palms^ belonging to 9 genera, are native to the United States. Only one occurs in the West; the others are naturally distributed in the southeastern and southern States^—from North Carolina through Florida and the Gulf Coast into Texas and as far inland as Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma.