Verschiedene Palmen auf der ganzen Welt

What on earth are the palm trees around Alice Springs supposed to be?

Japan suddenly lost its palms.

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

There are even palm trees in Switzerland, also growing naturally.

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?

Something bonkers happened in Turkey on this map!

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

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

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

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 🧑‍🍳💋

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).

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

My city is funny, it ranges from 40+ (Celsius) to -10 ish (and rarely, snow. Much more commonly, hail), the altitude is relatively high and there is a lot of drought. We have both thriving palm trees and pines, it is weird af to my eyes haha

Why are there palm trees in the middle of the desert in Australia?

There are palm trees native to Chile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubaea?wprov=sfla1

The map is not accurate

There are palm trees in Cornwall, UK.