Sabal palmetto

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Highly versatile and will adapt to a variety of sun and soil conditions. The cabbage palm is a medium sized spineless, evergreen palm with an unbranching trunk and very large, fan-shaped leaves that form a circular crown. When the palm is young, the gray-brown trunk is rough and covered with the old boots of leaf stalks. These stalks fall away, revealing the trunk as it matures.

Similar plants:

• Sabal causiarum (Puerto Rican Hat Palm)
• Sabal minor, Sabal etonia (Blue Palm, Blue Palmetto, Dwarf Palmetto, Scrub Palm)
• Sabal sp. (Palmetto)
• Sabal yapa (Bay Palmetto, Thatch Palm)
• Serenoa repens, Sabal serrulata (Saw Palmetto)