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Sabal minor At Their Range Limits?


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This is my first time trying to post photos here, so I hope this works:

A few from Oklahoma, all north of I-40:

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Nice photo gallery.  Really happy palms!  There's a few doing nicely at the Norfolk Botanical Garden.  I'll be able to post photos next week. 

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Fla. climate center: 100-119 days>85 F
USDA 1990 hardiness zone 9B
Current USDA hardiness zone 10a
4 km inland from Indian River; 27º N (equivalent to Brisbane)

Central Orlando's urban heat island may be warmer than us

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Easily one of the most survivable palms in cold climates.  Love them!

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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

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I pasted these images on another thread earlier but I thought I would share them here as well. These photos are of some wild S.Minor towards their natural Northern limits of its range here in GA. These palms extend well into the state out of the coastal plains into the piedmont. As a landscape plant they seem to grow basically all over the state, although they do naturally stop the farther you get into the piedmont from the coastal plains. I took these photos around the end of October last year.

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Southern Kansas I know there are some growing unprotected but sited close to buildings for some minimal protection.

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@PalmTreeDude - Not within their native range... but, here are two Sabal minors (growing together) in my garden in central Pennsylvania, zone 6b.  They have never been protected other than some thick mulch placed around them in the winter months.  They are situated on the south side of my home in a sun-exposed location protected from the north and northwest winter winds.  Last winter, they experienced single digit lows and extended periods below freezing (up to 120 hours straight).  Really no damage apart from some minimal browning on a few of the older leaf tips.

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Here is a picture from the wiki showing the northernmost strand known just south of the Virginia border in the currituck sound. I have a seedling, the one that survived my grandmas cats on their trip back from florida, that I plan on putting out and doing absolutely nothing to protect much like my yuccas!

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LOWS 16/17 12F, 17/18 3F, 18/19 7F, 19/20 20F

Palms growing in my garden: Trachycarpus Fortunei, Chamaerops Humilis, Chamaerops Humilis var. Cerifera, Rhapidophyllum Hystrix, Sabal Palmetto 

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Gary Hollar actually arranged a visit to Monkey Island with a scientist, because you need some excuse to legally step foot on the island.  He also once talked to an old lady who lived there as a child of a caretaker of the island when it was a hunting lodge.  Monkey Island is the northernmost verified native sabal locale on earth.  It is a diificult paddle from the Whalehead Club to there in a canoe (bad idea on my part), but maybe not so bad in a kayak.

 

That being said, a report from an early 1800's botanist put sabal minor as far northwest as near Williamsburg, but he may have been confusing yucca for a sabal.  Hey gators used to be native here.  Minors grow weedy in my yard, but the "weeds" aren't great at outcompeting other vegetation, except in mulched beds.  Somehow they grow through the mulch to root down.  I "accidentally" dropped hundreds of sabal seeds around Hampton Roads years ago.  There was one growing along the Nolan Trail in Newport News.  For a few years, the management tolerated it, but eventually the chopped it down when modifying the trail.

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and everywhere else too.

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12 hours ago, VA Jeff said:

Gary Hollar actually arranged a visit to Monkey Island with a scientist, because you need some excuse to legally step foot on the island.  He also once talked to an old lady who lived there as a child of a caretaker of the island when it was a hunting lodge.  Monkey Island is the northernmost verified native sabal locale on earth.  It is a diificult paddle from the Whalehead Club to there in a canoe (bad idea on my part), but maybe not so bad in a kayak.

 

That being said, a report from an early 1800's botanist put sabal minor as far northwest as near Williamsburg, but he may have been confusing yucca for a sabal.  Hey gators used to be native here.  Minors grow weedy in my yard, but the "weeds" aren't great at outcompeting other vegetation, except in mulched beds.  Somehow they grow through the mulch to root down.  I "accidentally" dropped hundreds of sabal seeds around Hampton Roads years ago.  There was one growing along the Nolan Trail in Newport News.  For a few years, the management tolerated it, but eventually the chopped it down when modifying the trail.

It would be awesome if some were found on the Virginia coast, for all we know there could be a few lone plants in woodlands around the southern part of North Landing River or around the Back Bay. Virginia Tech has a document (  https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://pubs.ext.vt.edu/HORT/HORT-60/HORT-60-PDF.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiciuv2uNzWAhVG04MKHXOuADsQFggkMAA&usg=AOvVaw2AslfzBfIZNdowDY5SprDg ) that states that Sabal minor are nextive the extreme Southeastern Virginia. I "accidentally" might have dropped a few hundred Sabal palmetto seeds here last August. 

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On 8/23/2017, 10:56:41, mdsonofthesouth said:

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Here is a picture from the wiki showing the northernmost strand known just south of the Virginia border in the currituck sound. I have a seedling, the one that survived my grandmas cats on their trip back from florida, that I plan on putting out and doing absolutely nothing to protect much like my yuccas!

While these are the most northern located naturally occuring sabal species they are not from the coldest natural locale. This would easily go to the native stand in northern alabama (zone 7a)not the oklahoma mccurtian population (zone 8a)as some believe. 

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18 minutes ago, TexasColdHardyPalms said:

While these are the most northern located naturally occuring sabal species they are not from the coldest natural locale. This would easily go to the native stand in northern alabama (zone 7a)not the oklahoma mccurtian population (zone 8a)as some believe. 

There is a stand in 7a Alabama?! Where in Alabama?

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1 hour ago, TexasColdHardyPalms said:

While these are the most northern located naturally occuring sabal species they are not from the coldest natural locale. This would easily go to the native stand in northern alabama (zone 7a)not the oklahoma mccurtian population (zone 8a)as some believe. 

Any info about this population? 

Keith 

Palmetto, Florida (10a) and Tampa, Florida (9b/10a)

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I am pretty sure these palms are nearing their limits, https://www.google.com/maps/place/Congaree+National+Park/@33.817369,-80.8142409,2a,24y,35.97h,81.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3ph2561xPsoMlSBeQ98UxA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x21e8761583db239a!8m2!3d33.7917025!4d-80.7694244 at Congaree National Park, S.C. Correct me if I am wrong, but don't Sabal minor in South Carolina just go a little more inland past than Columbia?

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5 hours ago, PalmTreeDude said:

I am pretty sure these palms are nearing their limits, https://www.google.com/maps/place/Congaree+National+Park/@33.817369,-80.8142409,2a,24y,35.97h,81.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3ph2561xPsoMlSBeQ98UxA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x21e8761583db239a!8m2!3d33.7917025!4d-80.7694244 at Congaree National Park, S.C. Correct me if I am wrong, but don't Sabal minor in South Carolina just go a little more inland past than Columbia?

Not sure about Columbia, but they are wild in the SC piedmont about 30 miles north of the fall line, near Clarks Hill lake.  Like the McCurtin OK population discussed elsewhere on palmtalk, they inhabit very non-characteristic habitat (upland hillsides) wherein the coastal plain populations are invariably in wetlands.

Steve

 

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On 10/6/2017, 3:38:58, Zeeth said:

Any info about this population? 

South side of weiss lake. 

 

6 hours ago, PalmTreeDude said:

I am pretty sure these palms are nearing their limits, https://www.google.com/maps/place/Congaree+National+Park/@33.817369,-80.8142409,2a,24y,35.97h,81.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3ph2561xPsoMlSBeQ98UxA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x21e8761583db239a!8m2!3d33.7917025!4d-80.7694244 at Congaree National Park, S.C. Correct me if I am wrong, but don't Sabal minor in South Carolina just go a little more inland past than Columbia?

Are you talking about nearing their cold limits? Usda interactive puts that park at 13.9F, solid zone 8.

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@TexasColdHardyPalms - have you ever seen plants for sale from this Weiss Lake, Alabama population? I have the Sabal minor 'McCurtain County' and 'Warren, Arkansas' ecotypes.  Would be cool to add this northeastern Alabama form.

 

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On 10/8/2017, 9:48:08, TexasColdHardyPalms said:

South side of weiss lake. 

 

Are you talking about nearing their cold limits? Usda interactive puts that park at 13.9F, solid zone 8.

Not cold limits, I know they are insainly cold hardy. I ment range as in where they naturally grow.

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I am living in two states at the moment.  Where I am from, coastal Virginia is the border of zone 8a/7b, but inside of 8a.  Where I work and live more than half the week is North Carolina east of Charlotte zone 7b almost 8a.  I see slightly more subtropical plants in 7b NC than my home county.  The all time lows are worse here in NC, but the temperature swings are considerably greater than  the same zone near the coast.  Thus I believe that the NC 7b/8a is less harsh on palms than VA 8a/7b.

Ironically, although I've been growing palms at my Virginia house for over 13 years, I do not nearly have the tallest palm in the neighborhood.  The tallest windmill nearby is a full two stories tall at least.

But like you said PalmTreeDude, many of us sow our wild palm seeds around Virginia, and thousands of sabals have been planted in Hampton Roads, so it would be difficult to distinguish between native sabals and naturalized sabals at this point.  But almost certainly, sabals were once native to Virginia, even if hundreds or thousands of years ago, just like palmettoes were native to the Outer Banks a couple hundred years ago, when alligators roamed Southeast Virginia.

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On 10/11/2017, 12:14:23, VA Jeff said:

I am living in two states at the moment.  Where I am from, coastal Virginia is the border of zone 8a/7b, but inside of 8a.  Where I work and live more than half the week is North Carolina east of Charlotte zone 7b almost 8a.  I see slightly more subtropical plants in 7b NC than my home county.  The all time lows are worse here in NC, but the temperature swings are considerably greater than  the same zone near the coast.  Thus I believe that the NC 7b/8a is less harsh on palms than VA 8a/7b.

Ironically, although I've been growing palms at my Virginia house for over 13 years, I do not nearly have the tallest palm in the neighborhood.  The tallest windmill nearby is a full two stories tall at least.

But like you said PalmTreeDude, many of us sow our wild palm seeds around Virginia, and thousands of sabals have been planted in Hampton Roads, so it would be difficult to distinguish between native sabals and naturalized sabals at this point.  But almost certainly, sabals were once native to Virginia, even if hundreds or thousands of years ago, just like palmettoes were native to the Outer Banks a couple hundred years ago, when alligators roamed Southeast Virginia.

 

Some say that needle palms and sabal minor could have gone north of Maryland in their peak, kinda like how Spanish moss used to be prevalent in the tide water/easter peidmont regions of Maryland and Virginia as well as SE and eastern shores before the little ice age receded it further south. 

 

On 10/6/2017, 2:45:37, TexasColdHardyPalms said:

While these are the most northern located naturally occuring sabal species they are not from the coldest natural locale. This would easily go to the native stand in northern alabama (zone 7a)not the oklahoma mccurtian population (zone 8a)as some believe. 

 

Thats gives me hope as Im in a solid 7a that rarely sees bellow Z8 temps.

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Palms growing in my garden: Trachycarpus Fortunei, Chamaerops Humilis, Chamaerops Humilis var. Cerifera, Rhapidophyllum Hystrix, Sabal Palmetto 

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To add to what @TexasColdHardyPalms mentioned about Sabal minor in NE AL, there are a few scattered populations there near Centre, south of Weiss Lake.  I was just there a couple of weeks ago.  It is a zone 7b, according to the latest USDA plant hardiness zone map.  I can’t seem to upload any pictures from my iPhone, so I’ll try to make a separate post later.

By the way, these palms are further north than the McCurtain County palms also!  They are above 34°N.

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I see you've got the seeds up on RPS now, nice! I'm thinking about buying some to give to the botanical garden in Freiburg, Germany. 

Keith 

Palmetto, Florida (10a) and Tampa, Florida (9b/10a)

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I will have the Northern Alabama Minors seedlings for sale later this year.  They are currently sewn and commencing germination along with the McCurtain county seed that I collected. 

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I've been growing sabal minors and needle palms in INDIANA for 15 years unprotected.   Several needle palms excess of 10ftx10ft and several sabals 6ft x 8ft wide.

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On 9/6/2020 at 1:59 AM, frewworld said:

I've been growing sabal minors and needle palms in INDIANA for 15 years unprotected.   Several needle palms excess of 10ftx10ft and several sabals 6ft x 8ft wide.

Sabal minor "Mc Curtain" at my in laws house near Madison, Indiana.

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I meant to put this Sabal minor in this subject not the other one about McCurtain County Minors .

Here's close to the most northeast Minors in Hyde County , NC . More nice ones on Gary Hollar's website http://www.garysnursery.com

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Happy Thanksgiving! I got the chance to have lunch with my parents today, so I thought I would take a picture of their Sabal minor. I have posted it earlier in this thread so this is just an update pic. It is a mile or two north of I-40 in the Henryetta area in East central OK. Zone 7a planted in the north side of their house 

 

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I have several growing in central NJ (zone 7a) with no protection at all for well over 10 years! The only damage that happens is heavy snow or ice can push the fronds down but this is rare.1160698465_sabalminor.thumb.jpg.068fa14be6433d5f6b31dbdda49d74e5.jpg

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2 hours ago, palmhort said:

I have several growing in central NJ (zone 7a) with no protection at all for well over 10 years! The only damage that happens is heavy snow or ice can push the fronds down but this is rare.

That's a great looking specimen! I'm glad you are doing your part to make NJ a little more palmy.

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I have two growing along a southwest wall here in CT on Long Island Sound that have been doing well for 5 years. We are in zone 7a with lows in the 3 F range (30 year mean low). I normally get about 3 fronds a year. My only issue has been some of the oldest fronds turn yellow(ish). They said to add epsom salts?

A few days ago.. 

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naturalized at dc arbetorium

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8 minutes ago, climate change virginia said:

naturalized at dc arbetorium

Doesn't count but I would like some seed of that. 

Nothing to say here. 

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On 10/11/2017 at 12:14 AM, VA Jeff said:

I am living in two states at the moment.  Where I am from, coastal Virginia is the border of zone 8a/7b, but inside of 8a.  Where I work and live more than half the week is North Carolina east of Charlotte zone 7b almost 8a.  I see slightly more subtropical plants in 7b NC than my home county.  The all time lows are worse here in NC, but the temperature swings are considerably greater than  the same zone near the coast.  Thus I believe that the NC 7b/8a is less harsh on palms than VA 8a/7b.

Ironically, although I've been growing palms at my Virginia house for over 13 years, I do not nearly have the tallest palm in the neighborhood.  The tallest windmill nearby is a full two stories tall at least.

But like you said PalmTreeDude, many of us sow our wild palm seeds around Virginia, and thousands of sabals have been planted in Hampton Roads, so it would be difficult to distinguish between native sabals and naturalized sabals at this point.  But almost certainly, sabals were once native to Virginia, even if hundreds or thousands of years ago, just like palmettoes were native to the Outer Banks a couple hundred years ago, when alligators roamed Southeast Virginia.

speaking of alligators there have been some sightings of alligators in extreme south east Virginia could be a dumped pet or one that went exploring a little too far it could be from climate change but no one knows for sure

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42 minutes ago, climate change virginia said:

naturalized at dc arbetorium

 

33 minutes ago, EastCanadaTropicals said:

Doesn't count but I would like some seed of that. 

Yes there are some Sabal minor growing next to the visitor center at the National Arboretum which I collected seed from recently, and there is also a massive 50+ year old needle palm in the Asian Garden section of the Arboretum (both of which I have videos of on my YouTube channel, PalmsUSA). Thanks and take care!

PalmsUSA

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