Juania Species, Chonta Palm, Robinson Crusoe Palm

I am in the Azores, where the climate is exactly the one that this palm needs: 10C to 27C year round (night and day) and the scarce extre...Read Moremes can may be (I have not experienced them yet) +6C to maybe 29C, but I can not find it anywhere except one place where I can not afford to buy and ship it. I would pay up to 30 Euro including shipping if anyone wants me to try Juania in the Azores.

I have been growing a Juania in my sheltered Portsmouth garden for several years now & it is now around 10ft tall.
Planted as a 2f...Read Moret specimen it came from the nursery on Juan Fernandez island & was sold to help raise funds for the protection of the species.
Many others were sold in the UK, but I understand most have died & the only other ones I know of that still grow in the UK are in Cornwall.
There is a large specimen growing in Ireland at Earlscliffe Garden near Dublin.
It seems Juania likes to grow in a cool temperate climate with mild winters & ample rainfall.

There is a flowering specimen in newzealand

First of all the natural habitat of Juania is in Juan Fernandez Island, about 600km from the coasts of CHILE, not Argentina!!!
We ...Read Morehave some juanias in our nursery, some are growing very well, they're allready 7 years old. There're others which from one day to another die, and no one knows why, it's very complicated.
At the moment there're 2 bigger specimens growing well outside of Southamerica, in Irland and in San Francisco, CA.
There're only 2 adult specimens growing outside of island, in Con-Con, chilean central coast.