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Originally Posted by LateBoomer
No palms are native to this area. The traditional cutoff lies on a line that stretches from Tampa to Melbourne in Southern Florida and then south only.
So none are native to TV.. For the entire State, only 12 palm species are native at all, and among those are quite a few you don't see in landscaping. Queen Palms -- so many in Florida -- are actually from South America, originally. Sylvester palms are native to Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, etc. Robellini palms are native to China, Viet Nam. Areca palms originated in the Phillipines, Malaysia and India. Royal palms originated in Mexico and other parts of Central America.
and so on.
so much for native palms in TV!
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Wrong.
There are several palms and a couple cycads native to this area. (And Bottlebrush trees are NOT native and are of no natural benefit to our natural habitat.) At least most of the non native palms (many of these have naturally arrived on our shores for thousands of years and actually growing on our coastlines) produce food for our birds and other wildlife. They also feed bees that are in a lot of trouble right now because of all the pesticides being sprayed on the plants we have in our yards. These palms you are saying I shouldn't plant , are for the most part, not being sprayed with pesticides, because the pest companies pedaling poisons have already found out what they use will damage palms, and make us palm lovers mad.
Palms ARE native to this area, most of us and the loropetalums, ligustrums, indian hawthorns, bottlebrush, and crepe myrtles.. are not.