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Sabal palmetto question.

Tyrone

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Does Sabal palmetto ever flower long before it’s formed a trunk?

Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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Not that I know of. Sometimes they can flower with a shorter trunk, but most of the ones I have seen with flowers have a lot of trunk already. Some people mistake Sabal etonia for Sabal palmetto.  Sabal etonia can flower with basically no trunk and they look like a young Sabal palmetto. 

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I once saw a six foot tall palmetto grow back from total defoliation and produce a single inflorescence.  It was unable to produce any mature seeds

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Mine does all the time... although it is starting get a little trunk on this past year.

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Zone 10a?

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I have Sabal palmettos I germinated from seeds in 2008/09 that have yet to flower.

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I bought both of these palms as Sabal palmetto. I now think neither are palmetto.

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Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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This one is definitely Sabal minor.

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Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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This one I at first thought was palmetto.

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Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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Is this a Sabal etonia?

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Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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On 2/2/2020 at 6:53 AM, Tyrone said:

Is this a Sabal etonia?

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That might be, does it have a lot of strings around the fronds? Sabal etonia have costapalmate fronds with lots of those little strings (I forgot their exact name). 

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On 2/4/2020 at 9:10 AM, PalmTreeDude said:

That might be, does it have a lot of strings around the fronds? Sabal etonia have costapalmate fronds with lots of those little strings (I forgot their exact name). 

There's a few stringy bits on it. Definitely more than my S minor which has none that I can see.

Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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