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What Is Your Favorite "Scrubby" Palm?


PalmTreeDude

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What is your favorite palm that tends to be scrubby and more low lying (typically) in habitat? Mine is the Sabal minor, simply because I love the looks of them and because they are hardy here. What is yours? It does not have to be hardy! 

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Probably a well grown Rhapidophyllum hystrix. Dark green and beautiful.

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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Hard to pick just one, but all of mine are natives: Rhapidophyllum hystrix, sabal minor, serenoa repens, sabal etonia.  All bulletproof here and, in some areas of the country, rhapidophyllum hystrix and sabal minor are the only palms that will grow.

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Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone 1990: 9a  2012: 9b  2023: 10a | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a

30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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All of those are great. I'd like to threw in Brahea Decumbens as another one of my favs.:D

Hesperia,Southern CA (High Desert area). Zone 8b

Elevation; about 3600 ft.

Lowest temp. I can expect each year 19/20*f lowest since I've been growing palms *13(2007) Hottest temp. Each year *106

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I would say my favorite might be brahea decumbens seen here at Doomsdave's place. Mine is still a ways off from looking like this yet. 

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i just picked up a blue serenoa repens from Kevin Weaver and I like this one also.

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arenga hookeriana

"it's not dead it's sleeping"

Santee ca, zone10a/9b

18 miles from the ocean

avg. winter 68/40.avg summer 88/64.records 113/25

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Hmm this is a hard question, but my favorites have to be either Sabal minor because they are native here and I tend to like the Carolina blue fronds that they have around here. I also like Chamaerops humilis. 

Zone 8a/8b Greenville, NC 

Zone 9a/9b Bluffton, SC

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Gold Coast, Queensland Latitude 28S. Mild, Humid Subtropical climate. Rainfall - not consistent enough!

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23 hours ago, Pal Meir said:

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I keep my Chamerops limited to how many trunks it is allowed to grow, and it's no longer a scrubby palm, but I still like it.  I keep it trimmed back for safety reasons, as it's next to the walkway and gate and I don't want anyone getting caught on it.  I have removed plenty of barbs from my scalp arms and clothes over the years working around it.

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33.0782 North -117.305 West  at 72 feet elevation

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On 11/23/2018, 9:49:15, PalmTreeDude said:

What is your favorite palm that tends to be scrubby and more low lying (typically) in habitat?

I struggled with this question.  I wouldn't really call some of the small understory Chamaedoreas that I have scrubby, but they are likely the closest palm I have that really stays low to the ground over the long run.  In most cases, I have used cycads to fill this visual niche in my garden, but I won't have the audacity to post any in a string about palms.

33.0782 North -117.305 West  at 72 feet elevation

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Allagoptera arenaria

El Oasis - beach garden, distinct wet/dry season ,year round 20-38c

Las Heliconias - jungle garden ,800m elevation,150+ inches rainfall, year round 15-28c

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Silver serenoa are always nice. Here's a really silver one I found in the wild in Brevard county.

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Keith 

Palmetto, Florida (10a) and Tampa, Florida (9b/10a)

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