Palms in San Antonio

[TonyDFW]

Palms and exotic plants from San Antonio, TX

Jubea chilensis

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[junglegalfla]

Riverwalk right?.....brings back fond memories of when we had an afternoon break from boot camp at Lackland AFB. Thanks for sharing!

[sonoranfans]

The biggest sabal I've ever seen was on the campus of the "diabetes and glandular disease clinic" 5107 Medical Dr, in San Antonio. It was under a very large canopy tree, just growing up into the branches. It was at least 30' tall and had fans that were 7-8' across, a real monster. I was on the job and did not have my camera, ughhh!

[Zeeth]

On 9/17/2008, 12:24:48, sonoranfans said:

The biggest sabal I've ever seen was on the campus of the "diabetes and glandular disease clinic" 5107 Medical Dr, in San Antonio. It was under a very large canopy tree, just growing up into the branches. It was at least 30' tall and had fans that were 7-8' across, a real monster. I was on the job and did not have my camera, ughhh!

I was in San Antonio for an interview so I made sure to check out this location. Here's the Sabal that Tom is referring to in this post:

[sonoranfans]

Still looks in fine shape for a low maintenance landscape tree.  Looks like they trimmed most of the overhead canopy branches, Im sure its happy.  Its a big long petiole sabal.  At first I was thinking domingensis but the cold there might make that unlikely.  Perhaps its a "riverside" like those grown out west.  I understand riversides are quite cold hardy.

[sonoranfans]

looks like it could be 40' tall and 25' wide nearly.  Still probably  the biggest I've ever seen.