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sabal FAQ
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What are Sabal Palms?
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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Are Sabal Palms cold tolerant?
Sabal palms are hardy to USDA zone 8 and can tolerate temperatures as low as 9 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Are Sabal Palms drought tolerant?
Not only are Sabal Palms drought tolerant, they will also tolerate standing or brackish water.
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What is the best environment for Sabal Palms?
Sabal Palms need hot and humid summers to grow well. Sabal palms are very adaptable to the environment.
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Are sabal Palms easy to care for?
Sabal Palms thrive on regular light watering and regular feeding.
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How tall do Sabal Palms get?
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.
Sylvester FAQ
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What are Sylvester Palms?
Phoenix Sylvestris, also known as date palm, indian date, sugar date palm or wild date palm, is a species of flowering plant in the palm family.
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Are Sylvester Palms cold tolerant?
Sylvester palms are hardy to USDA zone 8 and can tolerate temperatures as low as 9 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Are Sylvester Palms drought tolerant?
Sylvester Palms are drought tolerant. They are also moderately salt tolerant.
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What is the best environment for Sylvester Palms?
Sylvester Palms grow well in almost any well drained soil, including sand. They grow best in direct sunlight with room to grow.
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Are Sylvester Palms easy to care for?
Sylvester Palms thrive on regular light watering and regular feeding. Add top soil or peat humus to the hole when planting. Fertilize 3 times a year - in spring summer and autumn - with a quality palm fertilizer containing micronutrients.
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How tall do Sylvester Palms get?
Sylvester Palms grows up to 40-50 feet.
They stay low to the ground while young, eventually growing an attractive trunk with diamond-shaped leaf-base scars. You can have this "diamond cut" done by a pro to get the best results.