Plant Details: Cabbage palmetto
Category Palms  
Zone: 6? - 10
  
Out_of_stock: N
Common Name Cabbage palmetto Variety  
Regional Names  
Botanical Name Sabal Palmetto
Description This the state tree of Florida and South Carolina. Mature height is near 60'High in the warmer areas and produces a large crown up to 12'Wide of costapalmate, (recurved V-shaped) palmetto fronds. The older fronds break off below the crown and the petioles base,(base of the leave) will persist for years. We have experienced great success with this species in (zone7a and b) when planting container grown specimens. For anyone considering buying a wild dug specimens read the note below.
Notes
 For anyone considering buying a wild dug specimen here is some great advice. Always choose a freshly dug plant that has at least 8' of clear trunk. This is not including the crown!!! We have discovered along with many other palm nuts that smaller Sabal palmettos more often fail to recover from transplanted shock. All of the roots when cut at any point die so the palm must regenerate new roots from its base which creates a huge energy load from the Palms trunk. This is why one should always choose a largest freshly dug wild collected specimen with 8' plus clear trunk or larger. All of our 1 gallons are grown in a 4x4" square x 14" deep pots and 3 gallon are grown in 7x7" square x 18" deep pots to allow for a deeper root system which aids in our Palms winter survival. Customers are having much better success with our palms surviving the winter over growers that use traditional shallow pots.
Plant Growing Conditions

Soil PH
  
Soil Type
  
Water
 
SunLight
 
Foliage
acid:
Y
 
clay:
N
  
dry:
Y
 
full:
Y
 
Evergreen:
Y
neutral:
Y
 
average: 
Y
  
average:
Y
 
partial:
Y
  SemiEvergreen:
N
alkaline:
Y
 
sand:
Y
  
wet:
Y
 
shade:
Y
  Deciduous:
N
Plant Pricing
Last Update: 2010-04-08 22:33:04.0
Container Size
Price
1 Gallon
18.00
3 Gallon
28.00
7 Gallon
60.00
 
The 7 gal. size is for pick up only.
Last Update:
2008-12-01 01:19:43.0
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