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Jamaican Tall Coconuts in Florida

bubba

By bubba
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bubba Grand Master

bubba

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An urban myth exists that all Jamaican Talls were decimated by Lethal Yellowing in Florida.A picture is worth a thousand words:

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PalmatierMeg Grand Master

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Nice. The funky, artsy fishing village of Matlacha has many old tall Cocos like those that appear untouched by LY. Unfortunately, cold weather did in about 10-20% of them. They defoliated, leaving only tall gray pillars. Sad.

Meg

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Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

Zeeth Grand Master

Zeeth

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There's 2 at Kopsick. I sprouted 3 coconuts from them, but one went through some sort of shock and died, so I have 2 growing now. Much better suited to Florida growing conditions, as long as LY doesn't come around.

Keith 

Palmetto, Florida (10a) and Tampa, Florida (9b/10a)

DoomsDave Grand Master

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Hmm.

The key word seems to be "all." It's good to see a few left.

But, too few . . . . :(

That was still a disaster.

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redant Grand Master

redant

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It's no myth, they where.

Jupiter FL

in the Zone formally known as 10A

DoomsDave Grand Master

DoomsDave

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Hmm. The LY Shoah . . .

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rozpalm Mentor

rozpalm

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This circa 1982 article from the towns former newspaper sheds light on why these palms survived. The town of Palm Beach inoculates all of its coconuts 3x a year and makes the same services available to its residents at the towns price. Just about everywhere else in PBC they were wiped out.

Ron

Wellington, Florida

Zone 11 in my mind

Zone 10a 9a in reality

13miles West of the Atlantic in Palm Beach County

Ken Johnson Grand Master

Ken Johnson

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There are still some oldies on the Julia Tuttle causway and at South Point Park on Miami Beach as well as others. Maybe 1% of the originals?

The Palm Society (of old) donated money so the U of Florida could buy an electron microscope to study what was then an unknown killer.

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epicure3 Grand Master

epicure3

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Man, those things are over-trimmed.

Coastal San Diego, California

Z10b

Dry summer subtropical/Mediterranean

warm summer/mild winter

rozpalm Mentor

rozpalm

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Man, those things are over-trimmed.

You have to remember that we had a very cold winter here and that the missing fronds would be brown and probably laying on the ground or hanging from the tree. All of my coconuts look like feather dusters thanks to our cold winter.

Ron

Wellington, Florida

Zone 11 in my mind

Zone 10a 9a in reality

13miles West of the Atlantic in Palm Beach County

jrh735 Explorer

jrh735

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There are a handful of very sad looking Jamaican Tall coconuts at Lummus Park along Ocean Drive in South Beach. In years past I have seen alot of very healthy ones in Naples,Bonita Springs and Ft. Myers. It seems the LY didnt devestate the west coast as badly.

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