Posted on 03/06/2021 7:06:32 AM PST by Bon of Babble
“The removal of so many iconic, beautiful palm trees, including royal palms, will have a negative impact on our historic, cultural and economic brand,” Meiner wrote in an email. “Millions of tourists throughout the U.S. and the world annually visit Miami Beach and palm trees are an integral part of our brand. There are only a handful of tropical climates in the United States where palm trees can grow.”
(Excerpt) Read more at citizenfreepress.com ...
“The plan details the environmental benefits of planting shade trees, including species such as oak, ash, elm and sycamore, in place of palms. For example, a 16in trunk diameter live oak tree would remove 510lb of carbon dioxide, 20oz of harmful ozone, and intercept 725 gallons of rainfall per year.”
“By contrast, a native sabal palmetto palm of the same dimensions would absorb only 2.7lb of carbon dioxide, 1.7oz of ozone and 81 gallons of rainfall.”
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They’re plant-racists.
In my city in South Florida they wanted us to get rid of gravel driveways. This, while they complained...
*not enough water is trickling down to the aquifer and water supplies were diminishing
* the city was unable to adequately handle the storm water runoff.
These idiots never think.
Thankfully, the city resolution failed. For now.
What??
I thought PLANTING trees was the answer to global warming!
“For me the next question is....How long is it going to take for the shade trees to be mature enough to reach the stated goal? The trees they want to plant do grow like weeds. They take years, a lot of them, to grow. What about the root systems? If I’m not mistaken roots for oaks spread out quite a bit, tearing up all sorts of concrete, etc. But, then again, the liberals have thought all of that through, right?”
Many streets in Old Town Key West are lined with these types of shade trees. The sidewalks that surround the base of the trees are uneven, buckled, and torn up. I have seen many people trip and fall over the years because of the condition of the sidewalks. I have also been a victim.
Miami Dade, Broward and Palm are the worst! But Broward tops the list.
Drive down a cart path on a golf course. In some place it’s like going 4wheeling.
We have lots of palm trees here in the SF Bay Area of California. In my subdivision of South San Francisco every house had a palm tree or two in front. They've been disappearing over the last 60 years. I cut mine down 20 years ago, thought it didn't belong in our cool climate. Palm trees are everywhere in Northern California (not native trees).
That’s probably more about having control of building materials or limiting access to outdoorspeople.
Washingtonia filfera palms are native to California.
Washingtonia filifera, the shorter relative of the Mexican Washingtonia robusta a/k/a skyduster.
Thanks. I looked it up, says native to Southern California and Baja California. Here in Northern California, I suspect they were all brought in from elsewhere. Here's a picture of one, looks a lot like the one that was in front of my home. I hated all the palm leave fronds that constantly fell on my lawn.
We used to have beautiful blue slate sidewalks in the part of Newark where I grew up. I used to hang with a city cop. “They’re in the suburbs now,” he told me.
In this part of Florida the palms planted along highways are native Sabal palmettos. Some have bare trunks, some have a rather pretty criss cross pattern of old leaf “boots” that persist after the leaves fall or are burned or trimmed off.
The massive royal palms the article refers to are Florida natives -Roystonea regia palms - that need to be in zone 10a or warmer. They are considered by many to be the most handsome of all palm trees, and there are a few wild stands left in the everglades. They have smooth, straight pale gray trunks that at the crown transition to a bright green crown shaft, and unlike coconut or date palms which have flat leaves resembling a fish skeleton, the leaves of a royal palm are very full and three dimensional like a fox’s tail.
And neither of them were consulted about such an idea?
Someone has a BIL in the palm tree removal business.
Symbols of Jewish whiteness?
One day a guy came by and said, "I'll give you $300 each for three of them". I said "No thanks, I like the shade"—and that was that...
He came by the next day and said, "I'll give you $1000 for the those three Royal Palms".
That sounded SO much better, and I took it; as agreed, he filled in the holes, and planted another three Royal Palms. I asked where the palms were headed, and he said, West Palm Beach.
Two weeks later, Southeast Florida took on Hurricane Andrew!
I had no idea that palm trees don’t float. Never know what you’ll learn on FR! (Does make sense that you’d know this from your handle.)
When I bought a house in Miami, the realtor couldn’t stop talking about the palm trees. Wish I’d known this at the time, could have knocked $20K off the price... From now on I’m calling them “oversized blades of grass.”
learned that years ago and also learned that my Arecas when young after pruning produced Palm hearts, although not as good as store bought from S America
Oh, wow, I do miss palm hearts from South America. You’re so right about that.
I so miss the fresh vegetables and hunted game I could get in top-end restaurants in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. Messed up places, but with money you can live incredibly well down there.
Palm trees aren’t native to California.
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