sabal domingensis

[buffy]

It's clearly a S. palmetto x S. causiarum. It acts like a very robust palmetto. No ligule action. 

[DallasPalms]

The seed differences add to the confusion more than anything for me. I suspect people just loved Palms ages ago and shuffled them all around and we call it nature 

Dominguensis seeds photod. They are huge 1/2" wide+ usually, just the seed, from enormous oblong chubby looking fruits with a lightly sweet scent... it's a similar smell to others but sweeter I think. The seeds also have the indentation 

Causarium I've read have small seeds and Palmetto even smaller...  i see a couple of huge Mexicana/Texana trees around with huge 15-20 foot wide canopies and I have to wonder if they just adapted differently or if they come from a lineage crossed with a giant like Causarium...

Dominguensis do not seem very large at all to me but maybe I'm not seeing pure Dominguensis? They seem to just grow alot taller than a Palmetto in a tropical location with a thicker trunk and enormous seeds on short brachs

Edited September 28, 2021 by DallasPalms

[ZPalms]

3 hours ago, buffy said:

It's clearly a S. palmetto x S. causiarum. It acts like a very robust palmetto. No ligule action. 

Is the hybrid just as cold hardy as a normal palmetto? Super interesting!

[ZPalms]

3 hours ago, DallasPalms said:

The seed differences add to the confusion more than anything for me. I suspect people just loved Palms ages ago and shuffled them all around and we call it nature 

Dominguensis seeds photod. They are huge 1/2" wide+ usually, just the seed, from enormous oblong chubby looking fruits with a lightly sweet scent... it's a similar smell to others but sweeter I think. The seeds also have the indentation 

Causarium I've read have small seeds and Palmetto even smaller...  i see a couple of huge Mexicana/Texana trees around with huge 15-20 foot wide canopies and I have to wonder if they just adapted differently or if they come from a lineage crossed with a giant like Causarium...

Dominguensis do not seem very large at all to me but maybe I'm not seeing pure Dominguensis? They seem to just grow alot taller than a Palmetto in a tropical location with a thicker trunk and enormous seeds on short brachs

I know nothing about sabals seeds but they look very yummy, They look like raisinets or chocolate 

[buffy]

2 hours ago, ZPalms said:

Is the hybrid just as cold hardy as a normal palmetto? Super interesting!

Hard to say. I had it next to a heated pool during the -5F. It was defoliated, but has come back fine. I'm guessing its probably similar to S. palmetto.