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    1. britinnit on

      Is this where they naturally occur. Because I’ve seen some in parts of England so I know they can survive here.

    9. ApprehensivePrice566 on

      I believe all of Italy has palm trees as well as most balkan countries

    10. Glad-Hurry-9410 on

      Japan, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania and Italy all have palm trees too. This could be where they naturally occur or do so more frequently.

    13. tigro7 on

      Liguria has palms, but I don’t know how naturally (though is the same for Provence)

    14. TheYellowFringe on

      The distribution of palms in Australia are interesting.

      I’m wondering if the patchs from the centre and east might have connected at one time to the north?

    15. RoadHazard on

      I loved palm trees as a kid, they felt very exotic to me as a Swede. The first time I went to a country where they grow naturally I was in heaven.

      (I still love them at 40+)

    22. dkg224 on

      About 24 years ago my buddies mom was starting a palm tree nursery in N California and was gonna be selling them down to Vegas with all the new construction going on. Then she got arrested for growing and selling weed across the country.

    24. SharkeyGeorge on

      How about the scene in the 2006 movie Hoot when the teacher (played by Jimmy Buffet) asks the class “*So why are there palm trees in Ireland?”* to teach the kids about the Gulf Stream? 😹

    27. aanl01 on

      The chilean wine palm is an endangered species because we used to cut them to produce palm syrup 🥲 Nowadays it’s illegal to cut this tree and there are lots of conservation efforts

    28. BixbysTree on

      I’ve collected three coconuts off of Nova Scotia beaches after tropical storms over the years, so their seeds can get here, but they can’t grow!

    32. Val2K21 on

      I’ve seen quite a few in Georgia (country) both planted in the parks as well as growing randomly in rural areas (near Batumi, close to Türkiye)

    34. virkendi on

      It’s very wrong for Australia, the entirety of eastern Queensland is populated with native palms and the range stretches all the way down to Victoria in the far south east with Livistona Australis

      NZ too has the native Nikau growing until halfway down the west and east coast of the south island

    37. ResidentIwen on

      I know of some palm trees on the dublin coast that might want to have a word with you as to why they’re not represented here

    40. ruinrunner on

      That can’t be right for Africa? what about the sahara? what about the swamps of the congo? what about the highlands of Ethiopia?

    41. Easy-Reporter4685 on

      Canary Islands should be highlighted because we have our own endemic date palm ‘Phoenix canariensis’ which is easily the most iconic and beautiful of them all.

    43. SEA_Executive on

      Hawaii’s turn to be left off the map 😂 and NZ showing up in the wrong location to be included on every map now is the 🧑‍🍳💋

    46. Iwasjustryingtologin on

      In the case of Chile the map is incorrect. The natural range of the Chilean wine palm, [_Jubaea chilensis_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubaea), which is endemic to the country and our only native palm species, extends from the Coquimbo Region to the Maule Region or roughly between 30° and 35° south latitude. It inhabits mountainous areas near the coast characterized by a Mediterranean climate and is one of the most iconic trees of the Chilean sclerophyllous forest.

      On the map, however, the marked area extends from the Maule region to the island of Chiloé, roughly between 35° and 43° south latitude, which encompasses a transitional zone between a Mediterranean and an oceanic climate, characterized by the Valdivian temperate rainforest, an environment that is far too humid and cold for the natural growth of this species.

      And needless to say, the map is completely wrong in northern Chile. That area covers the Andean altiplano and part of the Atacama Desert. It should be quite obvious that no palm tree is going to grow in such a dry, high-altitude environment (the same applies to the marked areas of the Bolivian, Argentine and Peruvian altiplano).

    48. Elskyflyio on

      There are non-native palm trees growing by the north-eastern Italian coast too btw