I live in North Central Florida halfway between Orlando and Ocala. In addition to working with reptiles I also work with fruit trees from S.E. Asia (you know where burms come from. I can tell you from first hand experience they won't last a month outside here in the winter and I have been arguing all along that I have doubts that they are really living year-round in the everglades. Anyway I can tell you that without the help of green house type protection most S.E. Asian fruit trees will die here very quickly in average night-time winter temps. One of the few notable exptions however is the Star-fruit or Carambola (Avverhoa carambola) it can take down into the mid-twenties for a few hours before you get signifigant damage (dead limbs etc.) I lost about 90-95% of my star fruit crop this year due to a cold snap that put temps into the upper 20's at the wrong time (GLOBAL WARMING MY ALGORE) If you are working with any burms that are capeable of withstanding such temps please let us know as they would be a great breeding project. I suspect what you would actually have is a big brown popsicle. Wich might taste good with a side order of slightly frozen not-quite-ripe star fruit.

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