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Three New Sabals


PalmatierMeg

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I have an interest in mutant and/or dwarf Sabals. Yesterday I received three new Sabals I ordered from Plant Delights in NC: Sabal minors High Springs & Welfare & Sabal palmetto Mocksville. I was asked to post photos of my new acquisitions. Right now they all look like typical Sabal seedlings but I hope they will distinguish themselves in the future.

Photo #1: Sabal palmetto Mocksville, left; Sabal minor High Springs, middle; Sabal minor Welfare, right

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1) Sabal palmetto Mocksville from Mocksville NC. This plant is descended from a palm still living in Fayetteville, NC, that survived the brutal winter of 1984/85. My interest is not so much its extreme coldhardiness but its leaves that are less divided than typical Sabal palmettos. It also flowers at an earlier age.

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2) Sabal minor High Springs - a dwarf variety from High Springs, FL, that reaches 2' tall and 4' wide

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3) Sabal minor Welfare, "poor scrub palmetto" from Kendall County, TX, near the ghost town of Welfare. A distinctive Sabal minor that can form trunks up to 8' tall. According to PDN, this may be a remnant population of a hybrid between Sabal minor & S. mexicana.

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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@PalmatierMeg - thank you so much for posting these!  These babies look great.  I am quite envious of your new additions.  Please keep me/us posted on their progress!  :D

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They are all in the ground. I will try to find time for photos later this weekend. We had catastrophic damage to our large tropical trees from Hurricane Irma but most of our palms sailed through. I managed to persuade my husband to not replant many of the large trees and replaced them with young palms, including two Copernicias I grew from seeds I collected in Cuba in 2014. The S. palmetto Mocksville also replaced a tree. I decided to yank out the small/medium crepe myrtles because their quality had declined (I think our winters are too warm for them) and they suckered wildly (I've been diagnosed with chronic vestibular migraine and can't work in summer heat). The Sabal minors Welfare and High Springs took the place of two of the crepe myrtles

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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4 hours ago, Gbarce said:

Do you have photos of what mature specimens will look like?

 

There are photos on the Plant Delights Nursery website but I'm sure they are copyrighted and I don't "poach" other people's photos.

Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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