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About Sabal Palmetto

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What is the reason why it is little used?
 

It supports the cold of zone 8, wind, salinity, even some waterlogging ... However, in comparison with W. Filifera it is not spoken of for cold zones.
 

Is it extremely slow growing?  Any other resistance problem?
 

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The tree is quite prolific and it is the state tree of Florida and South Carolina

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That doesn't happen there / So when you run make sure you run / To something and not away from

Cause lies don't need an aero plane / To chase you anywhere

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I have wondered the same, it is nearly absent in much of the arid west where California and Mexican fan are grown like crazy.  It is surely a far slower grower than the Washingtonia genus.  I am not sure that it likes the extreme heat and dry conditions of the arid southwest, though I don't have a lot of evidence of that, it's just that are nearly none there it seems.

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Corpus Christi, TX, near salt water, zone 9b/10a! Except when it isn't and everything gets nuked.

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These are a couple of the exceedingly few Sabal palmetto I ever saw in the Phoenix AZ area.  They don't look great, they don't look so bad when they let them grow out a bit.  I'm sure the local landscapers don't understand that a Sabal cannot replace a crown within 5 minutes of being trimmed like a Washingtonia can.

 

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Corpus Christi, TX, near salt water, zone 9b/10a! Except when it isn't and everything gets nuked.

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I don’t understand why they aren’t used more in Phoenix the two pictures are palms of the same age ones Sabal the other is washingtonia in a residential yard with a Washingtonia all you see is a post and you have to pay somebody to trim it!!!

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