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Sabal etonia (2 & 3 orders of inflorescent branching)


Walt

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Below are three photos of one of my largest Sabal etonia palms that grow naturally on my property. This particular palm was about the same size when I bought my property in February of 1998. At that time I wasn't familiar with Sabal etonia (scrub palmetto). I thought this palm was just a juvenile Sabal palmetto. I only learned of the Sabal etonia species when I bought a copy of Betrock's Guide to Landscape Palms about a year after I bought my property. Still, I couldn't readily distinguish from a juvenile S. etonia and juvenile S. palmetto.

But one thing I did eventually observe was that S. etonia flowered and set seed with no trunk. I've watched juvenile S. palmetto grow from just more than a seedling to flowering size, but they didn't flower until they had about five feet of trunk, maybe even more.

The below palm exhibits a semi-subterranean trunk (noted by red arrow). Also, the inflorescence shows two orders of branching off the peduncle. The palm's highest fronds (at outer tip of the right uppermost frond) is about 8 feet. This S. etonia is planted next to a Livistona australis (to the right).

In my next posting I will post another of my largest Sabal etonia. This one has inflorescence with 3 orders of branching.

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Below are three photos of another one of my largest Sabal etonia palms. This palm is original to my property. This particular palm exhibits 3 orders of branching off the peduncle, just like Sabal palmetto. Now, I've read that Sabal etonia can produce either 2 or 3 orders of inflorescence branching. I even have at least one Sabal etonia that produces both 2 and 3 orders of branching inflorescence. Still, I'm not convinced that some of my Sabal etonia palms may have some hybridity with Sabal palmetto.

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