Palms and Cycads: Frozen Palm Pics, 0 by Chiefengineer

Chiefengineer wrote:
I'm posting these pictures for those interested
in what freeze damage can look like.

A couple weeks ago we had an unusual freeze.
It was 70-80F for weeks...then all of a sudden
a 14 hour freeze where it dipped to 25F. It is
70's again now, but the aftermath isn't pretty.

My Roebellini (above in pic) is next to a chimney,
brick, a hot tub, and partially under an eve. It has
been unscathed in the ground four years and is
now a toasty brown...even the crowns. By contrast,
the queen next to it, and all my others, have so far
shown no effects (that usually comes in Spring
with malformed crowns, though).

All my smaller Washies got toasted. The ones
only in the ground one year are DEAD. This one
(in pic lower) is only burned bad. My theory is
a more mature root system helps stave off
freezing effects...bigger ones in the ground
less time are almost black.

These palms are helpless when it is 80F during the day
then freezes at night...a relatively new phenomena. I
have a huge hackberry tree that lost all of its green leaves
in two days following this...never got brown. Same
with some peaches that were blossoming. All my
Phoenix Canariensis were in full flower...they look
like the flowers were torched...trees are good.