sabal palms

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Sabal palmetto, also known as cabbage-palm, palmetto, cabbage palmetto, blue palmetto, Carolina palmetto, common palmetto, swamp cabbage and sabal palm, is one of 15 species of palmetto palm. It is native to the Southern United States, as well as Cuba, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Bahamas.

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Sabal palms are hardy to USDA zone 8 and can tolerate temperatures as low as 9 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Not only are Sabal Palms drought tolerant, they will also tolerate standing or brackish water.

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Sabal Palms need hot and humid summers to grow well. Sabal palms are very adaptable to the environment.

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Sabal Palms thrive on regular light watering and regular feeding.

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Sabal palmetto grows up to 65 feet or 20 meters. Starting at ½ to ⅔ the height, the tree develops into a rounded, costapalmate fan of numerous leaflets. A costapalmate leaf has a definite costa (midrib) unlike the typical palmate or fan leaf, but the leaflets are arranged radially like in a palmate leaf. All costapalmate leaves are about 0.20 inches or 5.1 millimeters across, produced in large compound panicles up to 8.2 feet or 2.5 meters in radius, extending out beyond the leaves. The fruit is a black drupe about 0.5 inches or 1.3 centimeters long containing a single seed.