Jump to content
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT LOGGING IN ×
  • WELCOME GUEST

    It looks as if you are viewing PalmTalk as an unregistered Guest.

    Please consider registering so as to take better advantage of our vast knowledge base and friendly community.  By registering you will gain access to many features - among them are our powerful Search feature, the ability to Private Message other Users, and be able to post and/or answer questions from all over the world. It is completely free, no “catches,” and you will have complete control over how you wish to use this site.

    PalmTalk is sponsored by the International Palm Society. - an organization dedicated to learning everything about and enjoying palm trees (and their companion plants) while conserving endangered palm species and habitat worldwide. Please take the time to know us all better and register.

    guest Renda04.jpg

Sabal minor in habitat, McCurtain County, OK


jfrye01@live.com

Recommended Posts

17 minutes ago, TexasColdHardyPalms said:

Nope they are not in choctaw. They are a few east over in arkansas though. 

100% of the minor found naturally agrowing winin the new usda 8a zone.

When you say they are all found within the new USDA 8a zone, are you talking about just the Oklahoma minors or all of them (Northeast Alabama)?

Edited by PalmTreeDude
Errors

PalmTreeDude

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Yea, i was staying on topic. All the "mccurtain county" population is solid 8a.

  • Upvote 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 7/22/2018, 8:20:02, PalmTreeDude said:

Does anyone know if Sabal minor grow naturally in Choctaw County Oklahoma? The southern part of the county is zone 8a (and I know Sabal minor have been seen growing naturally in 7b in Alabama). It also is along the Red River, which I know Sabal minor follow. So it seems like a good climate for them. 

SoutheastOklahoma.JPG

I could not tell you if there are any sabal minor populations in Choctaw county, but I was surprised to once hear that there are populations farther north in McCurtain county near Broken Bow. I once spoke to an Oklahoma palm enthusiast who was a professor of biology. He and another professor had organized a mapping survey in which they marked sabal minor populations with GPS, in order to figure out what kind of population exists and to track them over time.

He said they found some in the mountains somewhere in the Broken Bow area. So they were farther north than expected and not in low swampy habitat like one might have expected.

I can't confirm that and I never saw any study results personally. That is just what this professor told me.

  • Upvote 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

That doesn't surprise me. I found five groups containing one to three plants sprinkled around in the tall pine forest all several miles apart East of Idabel that were not swampy or in a flood plain.  They were obviously deposited from an animal and not part of an original colony.  I suspect the climate has allowed them to begin to spread throughout the area. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Sabal minor in the mountains? That would be a sight. 

Edited by PalmTreeDude

PalmTreeDude

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 hour ago, PalmTreeDude said:

Sabal minor in the mountains? That would be a sight. 

Northern Alabama has the foothills of the Appalachians and they apparently grow there.

Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone 1990: 9a  2012: 9b  2023: 10a | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a

30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 7/24/2018, 5:42:11, PalmTreeDude said:

Sabal minor in the mountains? That would be a sight. 

While they are not large mountains, the Ouachita Mountains of Southeast Oklahoma are a beautiful area. Maybe my favorite landscapes in Oklahoma. They look a little like the Appalachian foothills. Courtesy of google:

 

pic1.jpg.2a15c79d232491a630039d0fc6755df

pic2.jpg.a92fcc275a83fe993d874127c08e06f

 

 

Image result for broken bow lake

 

pic3.png

Edited by Ben OK
  • Upvote 4
Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 7/24/2018, 7:09:42, kinzyjr said:

Northern Alabama has the foothills of the Appalachians and they apparently grow there.

It may be pretty similar terrain. I got to spend some time in Anniston Alabama last spring and it reminded me a lot of Southeast Oklahoma. It was a nice area and I thought the locals were pretty pleasant folks.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 months later...
On 7/22/2018, 8:20:02, PalmTreeDude said:

Does anyone know if Sabal minor grow naturally in Choctaw County Oklahoma? The southern part of the county is zone 8a (and I know Sabal minor have been seen growing naturally in 7b in Alabama). It also is along the Red River, which I know Sabal minor follow. So it seems like a good climate for them. 

SoutheastOklahoma.JPG

I grew up in Red River County, Texas.  I have spent lots of time prospecting for rare plants in NE Texas, SE Oklahoma, and SW Arkansas.  I have never seen S. minor in Choctaw County.  The furthest west I have seen it along the Red River floodplain is about 1 mile N of the intersection of FM 1159 and CR 3240 in Red River County, Texas.

I will say that the presence of the seed weevil Caryobruchus gleditsiae in the Red River County and McCurtain County populations leads me to believe that these are not disjunct outliers, but rather northwestern parts of a more or less continuous population extending Gulfwards, probably including many sites that are just too mucky for humans to easily explore.  In Dallas County, Texas, where I live now, C. gleditsiae is present in native populations of S. minor, but I have never seen it in cultivated palms, even in sites such as the Dallas Zoo and Dallas Discovery Gardens, which are each located within around 5-10 miles of native S. minor.  If the presence of C. gleditsiae does indicate that the populations are part of a greater whole, much of which is largely undocumented due to inhospitable, mucky soils, then the population could extend to Choctaw County, Oklahoma and possibly Lamar County, Texas.

Sabal minor grows further north and in marginally colder sites in the Little River drainage in McCurtain County.  A plant that thrives in similar conditions is Hymenocallis lifiosme, and the largest population I have ever seen of that species is in Hopkins County, Texas extending for several miles along SH 19 between Sulphur Springs and the Delta County line.  Since Hopkins County is due south of Choctaw and Lamar, with similar average rainfall, it seems that there is no climatic hindrance.  I have seen S. minor near Johntown in southern Red River County, but it is not officially documented as growing in the Sulphur River floodplain, so just because no herbarium specimens exist for Choctaw County doesn’t mean absolutely that it’s not there.

  • Upvote 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 7/25/2018, 8:24:29, TexasColdHardyPalms said:

@PalmTreeDude  Don't get too excited. Oklahoma doesn't have mountains.  They barely qualify as miniature hills.

Actually, in the Ouachitas, the tops of the ridges are 2500+’ asl, and that’s rising above river bottoms that are ≈500’ asl.  With 2000’ of vertical rise, I believe they qualify as mountains.

  • Upvote 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

14 minutes ago, TexasColdHardyPalms said:

20181002_091308.jpg

20181002_090617.jpg

Dang that last one has a tall seed stalk! Are you collecting seeds or do those ripen later in October? 

PalmTreeDude

Link to comment
Share on other sites

It appears that someone has been spreading seed out to help the colony grow. There were thousands and thousands of very young plants. 

20181002_081303.jpg

  • Upvote 6
Link to comment
Share on other sites

10 minutes ago, TexasColdHardyPalms said:

It appears that someone has been spreading seed out to help the colony grow. There were thousands and thousands of very young plants.

I wish I could claim responsibility for that, but either way, I'm grateful that whoever it is did it.

  • Upvote 1

Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone 1990: 9a  2012: 9b  2023: 10a | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a

30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

Link to comment
Share on other sites

There was ample seedling growth in and around the mature plants but at the back of the colony there was a big patch of perhaps a thousand seedlings hundreds of yards from the nearest flowering plant. It didnt look natural to me. 

  • Upvote 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 1 year later...

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now



  • Recently Browsing

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...