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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

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@PalmatierMeg - thank you so much for posting these excellent pictures and descriptions!  I am quite envious of your new additions (in a good way).  Please keep me/us posted on their progress!  :D

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A few years ago, I irradiated thousands of seeds for experimentation.  10 MV x rays.  Most of the seeds I mailed back to a guy in Tennessee.  I saved some fatsia seeds and grew them.  Some mutants, but the only one that looked very interesting died on me.  The remaining ones are scattered around my yard.  I was hoping to knock out a gene involved in palmate leaf shapes, but no success.  Since then I have improved my protocols to produce more neutrons, and I have an 18 MV beam available now.

God bless America...

and everywhere else too.

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