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Sabal miamiensis Leu Garden: HUGE Fruit & Seeds


PalmatierMeg

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My second/younger Sabal miamiensis I germinated from a dessicated seed I found on a plaqued palm at Leu Garden in Orlando, FL, flowered and set fruit for the first time this spring. And that fruit and seeds are by far the largest I've personally ever seen in a Sabal palm - more than 2x larger than those of my first S. miamiensis, which came from seeds collected by Christian Faulkner. In addition, that crop of seeds started ripening in early Sept. Sabals in SWFL generally ripen from mid-Oct. to late Nov. That early ripening may just be a variation on a norm but it is new to me and I'm not sure what to make of it. But the palm nerd in me finds all this exciting.

Sabal miamiensis fr Leu Garden seed, Cape Coral, FL 2020

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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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Wonder if it’s some kind of hybrid? Hodel description of S miami below

 

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Meg, I would be interested in obtaining some seeds to compare to the other Sabal miamiensis seed batch I bought from you.

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We have 2 fruiting size Sabal miamiensis at Leu Gardens. The oldest is in the Palm Garden and was acquired in May 1999 from a Broward Co. Palm Society sale at Flamingo Gardens. It was a nice 1gal. specimen and planted later in May 1999. It is planted in a bed with other Sabal species, some mature including a flowering S. mexicana. It is possible there is hybridization.

The 2nd fruiting specimen is planted in the Arid Garden. It was grown from seed off the original S. miamiensis in the Palm Garden. This one was planted in July 2012 from a 1 gal. specimen. This one has begun fruiting in the past year. 

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Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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2 hours ago, Eric in Orlando said:

We have 2 fruiting size Sabal miamiensis at Leu Gardens. The oldest is in the Palm Garden and was acquired in May 1999 from a Broward Co. Palm Society sale at Flamingo Gardens. It was a nice 1gal. specimen and planted later in May 1999. It is planted in a bed with other Sabal species, some mature including a flowering S. mexicana. It is possible there is hybridization.

The 2nd fruiting specimen is planted in the Arid Garden. It was grown from seed off the original S. miamiensis in the Palm Garden. This one was planted in July 2012 from a 1 gal. specimen. This one has begun fruiting in the past year. 

I can't remember exactly where it was when I was there in 2015. I do remember it was growing in mostly shade and was fairly small, but it was definitely labeled. I thought I'd taken photos of it but I can't find them on my hard drive.

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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, PalmatierMeg said:

I can't remember exactly where it was when I was there in 2015. I do remember it was growing in mostly shade and was fairly small, but it was definitely labeled. I thought I'd taken photos of it but I can't find them on my hard drive.

Sounds like the original specimen in the Palm Garden

 

 

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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On 9/12/2020 at 2:11 PM, PalmatierMeg said:

My second/younger Sabal miamiensis I germinated from a dessicated seed I found on a plaqued palm at Leu Garden in Orlando, FL, flowered and set fruit for the first time this spring.

Meg, did you notice any difference in growth rate with this younger Sabal miamiensis and your older one?

Jon Sunder

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58 minutes ago, Fusca said:

Meg, did you notice any difference in growth rate with this younger Sabal miamiensis and your older one?

It's been a very fast grower but my original miamiensis grew quickly compared to other Sabals. I've searched my photo archive but don't have any specific photos prior to 2011. But I do have memories.

2008 - S. miamiensis gifted to me as a 2-leaf seedling in a small cone in May after I expressed the hope on PT I could obtain/grow all the native FL palms

2009 - Seedling struggled during prior year, appeared to be dying, then formed a secondary growing point and took off. Photo below from April 2009 shows where my S. miamiensis would be planted later in 2010 - container garden cactus then in place

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2011 - Sabal miamiensis

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2012

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2013

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2014

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2015 - Note flowers

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2016 - Looming over my husband's 1991 Corvette

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2019

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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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2 hours ago, Fusca said:

That is impressive growth for a pure Sabal!

Im confused Sabals dont hybridize easily since they self fertilize right ? What makes a pure sabal ? I'm sure this will turn into a oh duh moment for me haha 

T J 

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1 hour ago, OC2Texaspalmlvr said:

Im confused Sabals dont hybridize easily since they self fertilize right ? What makes a pure sabal ? I'm sure this will turn into a oh duh moment for me haha 

I think he meant pure Sabal miamiensis. I thought the same. Sabals have been known to hybridize but I get the impression they don't do it often. Could this plant be a miamiensis x mexicana? I don't have the expertise to know for sure, but the two species are quite distant from each other. There are species much closer geographically, i.e., palmetto (esp.) and etonia (north central FL - couple 100 miles+ away) and, you might assume, closer genetically. Still, I am befuddled at how large the fruit and seeds are on this palm and why they are all ripening in mid-Sept rather than late Oct. I have no answer why, unless this palm is somehow on palm steroids. A puzzlement but a cool one.

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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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Wow, those seeds are huge!  I suppose it’s quite possible that seed size is just variable, which could explain the discrepancy in seed size between that one and the ones from Christian’s seeds.  Perhaps miamiensis is of hybrid origin.  Mine is quite a beast now!

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I have no experience with miamiensis.  Just posted to say that I started collecting ripe Sabal palmetto seed this past week and did a trim job on 7 - 30' + palmettos that had ripe fruit  on certain plants 2 weeks ago.  While most of the palmetto seed matures later in Oct. and Nov. there are some infrutescense with ripe seed as soon as early Sept.

And YA, those seeds are big!

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On 9/19/2020 at 2:42 PM, OC2Texaspalmlvr said:

Im confused Sabals dont hybridize easily since they self fertilize right ? What makes a pure sabal ? I'm sure this will turn into a oh duh moment for me haha 

TJ, I think you're right in saying that Sabals don't naturally hybridize easily.  And yes, I was commenting on the growth rate of Meg's older "unhybridized" pure Sabal miamiensis.  But the fruit and seed size of Meg's younger miamiensis is similar to mexicana and ripening at roughly the same time as the mexicana around here so it makes me think it might be a rare natural hybrid with mexicana.  If it was a hybrid I would have expected it to grow a bit faster due to hybrid vigor, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.  Very interesting...

Jon Sunder

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Scott Zona described the species as having seeds that are 10.2-11 mm in width.  His examination came from dried seeds from a single plant.  Meg's seeds appear to measure 11-12 mm in width.   A maximum variance of only 1 mm or 74% the thickness of a dime. 

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