Sabal minor

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Figure 1. S. minorin habitat, near Emerald Isle, North Carolina.

Synonymy:

Corypha minor, Sabal adansonii, Sabal deeringiana, Sabal glabra, Sabal louisiana

Common Names:

Dwarf palmetto
Bush palmetto

Habitat:

Low lying areas of south-eastern United States.

Description:

A low growing costapalmate leaved palm which usually has a subteranean trunk, but can sometimes grow to about 2m tall (see Figure 1).

Culture:

Full sun, and lots of water. Can withstand several degrees of frost.

Figure 2. A very old plant of S. minor, City Botanic Gardens, Brisbane.

Figure 3. S. minor

Figure 4. S. minor, (labelled as S. adansonii) in the Buxton Woods, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, very near the northern limit of the range for any palm in North America.

Figure 5. Note how it rises above the leaves, unlike S. etonia.

Contributed by:

Mike Gray (Figure 1)
Mike Papay (Figure 2,3&5)
Dr. Stevens Heckscher (Figure 4)

External Links:

Kew, PalmWeb, JSTOR, Trebrown

Google, GoogleImages, Flickr, PalmTalk