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See just how much the mule palm has grown over the years! This Mule palm is a cold hardy cross between a Butia odorata and a Syagrus romanzoffiana var. litoralis "Silver Queen". This mule palm is best suited for 8b/9a without protection. Our mule palm is protected at temps in the low 20's °F (-7 °C) and under for winter and will be hard to keep alive long term in our climate. It is currently growing fast and is planted in pure clay soil.
"This cultivar of the Silver Queen Palm is from Argentina, Uruguay,and Southern Brazil Santa Catarina, where it is found at over 1000m (3300 ft.) altitude with a thicker sturdier trunk that supports a compact crown of arching fronds with particularly thick and wide leaflets. It is very cold hardy to 20 Deg. F and is said to survive temperatures of 15 Deg. F undamaged. This palm has been in cultivation in the U.S. for many years now under the name Silver Queen Palm. Reportedly the palm received that name in Florida not because its fronds are silver but because after a hard freeze that killed the more frost tender Queen Palms, the ones that survived (the Silver Queens), had leaflets that appeared in a strange, translucent silver tone in sunlight, the result of a light frost damage. "