Sabals in South Florida

[Jerry@TreeZoo]

We are growing some Sabals in the Deerfield Beach Arboretum and I took a few photos.  In reading another Sabal thread, http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/25378-my-big-sabal/ I thought I would start a new thread and not hijack that one.

Here is recently ID'd in the other post S. uresana

Here is the same palm today, five years later.

Just in the left of the picture is a S. Riverside, planted out at about the same time.

[Jerry@TreeZoo]

Here are the Riverside and uresana from a different angle. Note the Sabal palmetto between them is probably 20 or 30 years older, I would guess.

 

 

Here is a domingensis/causiarum, dwarfing a not so happy C. baileyana to the right.

 

 

 

[Jerry@TreeZoo]

In recovering the stump of a demised S. palmetto I had considered for carving, I recognized a shape in the rootball.  This is, if you will, the "fossilized" heel of the S.palmetto.  Note it is at the bottom of the rootball, 18" to 24" below grade. I had never seen this before.

 

[Jerry@TreeZoo]

a better pic

 

[Zeeth]

Great pics, Jerry! Sabal is a genus that I've grown to appreciate. They're bulletproof in Florida and some of them are quite attractive. My favorites are S. mauritiiformia, S. domingensis and S. lisa.

 

Here's a local Sabal lisa growing in Tampa. 

[Jerry@TreeZoo]

Here is another dom/causiarum (guessing) but much faster than the other.

And of course Our "Lisa".  It has bloomed this year but did not set any seeds (unless someone pilferred them when I was not looking.)

 

[Jerry@TreeZoo]

S, mauritiformis

 

[Jerry@TreeZoo]

Zeeth, I think Lisa looks much better in full sun.  The Tampa Lisa is great!

[Sabal Steve]

8 hours ago, Jerry@TreeZoo said:

Here are the Riverside and uresana from a different angle. Note the Sabal palmetto between them is probably 20 or 30 years older, I would guess.

 

 

Here is a domingensis/causiarum, dwarfing a not so happy C. baileyana to the right.

 

 

 

I think that the Copernicia is sad because it's being "overshadowed" by that amazing Sabal:) 

 

Here's a photo of a S. mauritiformis that I took a photo of at Fairchild.

Here are a few more photos from Fairchild.  I forgot what these were labeled.

 

[redbeard917]

Great thread. Here's a massive Sabal uresana from Kopsick.

 

[edric]

Thanks Jerry, nice specimens, Ed

[Zeeth]

9 hours ago, redbeard917 said:

Great thread. Here's a massive Sabal uresana from Kopsick.

 

Here's another shot of that one from a different angle in different lighting. The blue on this one really comes out on a cloudy day. 

[Stevetoad]

Great thread. Sabal is one of my favorite species. 

[aivalima]

Great pictures!!!

[Alicehunter2000]

Sabal mauritiformis?  In Roatan this week 

[SouthFLA]

On 11/25/2015, 12:09:53, Jerry@TreeZoo said:

Here are the Riverside and uresana from a different angle. Note the Sabal palmetto between them is probably 20 or 30 years older, I would guess.

 

 

Here is a domingensis/causiarum, dwarfing a not so happy C. baileyana to the right.

 

 

 

Where is this photo taken? It looks like a public park.

[Jerry@TreeZoo]

That is the Deerfield Beach Arboretum.

[Mandrew968]

On 11/25/2015, 12:33:43, Jerry@TreeZoo said:

Here is another dom/causiarum (guessing) but much faster than the other.

Jerry, this palm and probably the past palm are causiarum; note the flappy paper sheaths within the petiole bases(called ligules)? That's a dead ringer for the puerto rican hat palm.

 

 

 

[smithgn]

A not so happy C. Baileyana? It looks pretty lush to me! Does it struggle to grow there? I see that Deerfield Beach is a tad north of Miami... Great pics man.