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Wow-there are so many Colocasias with vivid red petioles. It may prove a bit easier to ID when it grows up-but there are so many selections available that a precise ID could prove to be impossible (especially with nurserymen pirating varieties and making their own cultivar names).

Great!!!! Perhaps you will eventually get some 80 pound fruit! How tall is your tree?

Selloum Leaf Philodendron-Philodendron bipinnatifidum (formerly known as Philodendron selloum) is relatively dependable here but usually loses some leaves and gets some burnt during the winter. Not this winter though ;)

Here are some Bananas that recieved some light foliage damage-but the stems are OK.

We have Variegated Shell Ginger (Alpinia zerumbet) 'Variegata' that has escaped injury this year. They are hardier than the literature gives them credit for-but they normally get burnt on mild winters and frozen to the ground on hard winters.

Normally here on the FSU campus we can expect hard freezes to knock our bougainvilleas down to the ground in the winter-but the 2012-2013 winter has been rather mild for us. Here is evidence.

I will post some more-we now have boldly planted a couple of Pygmy Date Palms in the protected courtyard of the Stone Building-wish us luck ;)

Yes-it has a neat skinny trunk and would be real cool for planting in a home landscape as a small accent. In the wild it is protected by state law-but is often growing in real rocky limestone areas so at least in much of Monroe county it has escaped plant vandalism.

One of Florida's neatest native palms in my opinion is the Florida Thatch Palm (Thrinax radiata)-it reminds me of a scaled down version of our Cabbage Palms and can be found on Big Pine Key with our miniature Key Deer! The white fruit are rather unexpected. Too bad it is tender to cold. I don't...

This was taken in May of 2010- my wife and I spent a week there to celebrate our anniversary. Key West is one of my favorite places to visit.

This beauty is in Key West

Those are beautiful!

Thanks for the recommendations Scott- I have 3 L.saribus that are still young (evil stems though) that were given to me from a palm collector in Kansas who is limited in his greenhouse space. I will try to buy some decora and australis when I head back down the state again.

This is the tallest of the 5 Queen Palms on campus-this one has not shown any cold damage-even when they were damaged 200 miles to our south in a recent winter! It is planted in a courtyard at the Williams Building and would be much happier with more sun which would most likely result in cold...

Chinese Fan Palm (Livistona chinensis) at Cawthon Hall courtyard on the campus of FSU. Just a few miles away from campus Chinese Fan Palms are killed or badly damaged by our winter freezes.