The largest and most cold hardy of the fishtail palms. A fairly large, vigorous and fast growing palm, with cold tolerance reported to 19F. However, I've not had one that didn't defoliate with temps into the mid 20's in NE Florida.

On another note, this last winter was particularily harsh, with temps into the teen's even in Central Florida where we grow our palms. Virtually all of our palms in this variety were severly damaged and havn't shown any signs of life yet. We are keeping our fingers crossed as these were several hundred 1 and 3 gals plants that were 3 to 4 years old!