There's a lot of hybridization going on among Washingtonias . It's very hard to find a "pure " Filifera or Robusta . It appears to be that a lot of the so called Filiferas they sell here at our local nurseries in San Antonio Texas are Filibusta (Filifera dominant ) . Mine have deep leaflet cut outs , lots of fiber, no red on the base petiole but the spines on the petiole show Robusta chararistics . One more thing I like to add about cold hardiness. San Antonio experienced a devastating winter in Feb 2021 also called Palmaggedon. It took out quite a few pure Robustas that already were towering over houses but some of them surivived our record lows of 9F. Pretty much all if not 100 percent of Filiferas surivived our artic blasts long story short both species can handle colder temperatures as labeled .
Hi! You’re so right! There is a lot of hybridizatio going on indeed but the « main » (robusta or filifera) is often still well visible. Here in Europe, it is mainly robusta that we see. I guess because it copes so much better with the humidity we have here, especially during winter. I’m not so surprised that the filifera’s resisted better to that extreme winter, they handle cold better than the robusta… as long as the cold is relatively dry (which should be the case in your region). As soon as you add humidity to the cold, the filifera doesn’t resist that well at all and therefore you only see robusta’s here. I tried a pure filfera in the garden last year but even the -4°C of last winter seemed to be to much. But it was very very wet indeed. All the robusta’s still look great…
Hoi hoi wil je nog een video maken want ik woon in Nederland dus je bent Belgisch zei je heb je tips hoe je hem zo groen maakt als die in de grond staat want die van mij is niet zo groen in de grond
Hallo, ik ben Hollands hoor maar woon in België. Een speciale video is niet nodig denk ik, bij twijfel mag je wel altijd mailen met wat foto’s naar lapalmeraie AT palmvrienden (punt) net
