The news article last week about “Modoc Trees Granted Reprieve” forgot to educate the reading public: The only indigenous palm in California is the Washingtonia filifera (desert fan palm), whose natural habitat is the Mojave Desert — never as far west as Los Angeles or Santa Barbara! Protect the Land Trust acreage, not these palms!
Not Native Palms
Thu Sep 15, 2022 | 1:13pm
Tue Jul 15, 2025 | 16:18pm
https://www.independent.com/2022/09/15/not-native-palms/