I'm going to be in the Alb. area in a week or so, I'm going to find this tree!

Where is the date palm on Central? I'll have to check it out when I'm in town next week. We have a couple of true date palms at our place in a protected location in Mesilla, NM (just west of Las Cruces), but I didn't think they could survive an Alb. winter without protection.

Yeah, Albuquerque is apparently a lot milder than some people think (see all the posts over the years regarding Albuquerque palms, olives, saguaros, and climate data)

The date palm is growing in the Nob Hill area against the wall on the north side, and is very visible from the street. It's been mentioned on posts from a couple years back, and the location might be given there, but I'm so unfamiliar with the street names that I don't want to attempt a guess. It's really not much to look at, but very cool just because it's there and gets no protection, or any other care from what I can tell. I wonder how much dieback it is experiencing right now with the arctic blast (low of 8 degrees last night in Albuquerque).

By the way, if you ever see it, maybe you could verify if it is really a true date palm, or in fact a canary island date palm. People on this forum have thought both.