Sabal palmetto Mocksville Caribbean we've never seen a seedling

we've never seen a seedling from our clump

the clump goes dormant until late fall when it emerges and subsequently remains green through the winter

are topped with 20" spikes of light lavender flowers in late June

tubular flowers along the top 2' of the spike

Sabal palmetto Mocksville Caribbean we've never seen a seedlingThanks to hardy palm grower Larry Green for sharing seed from the Sabal palmetto growing at his former family home in Mocksville, NC (1 hour southwest of Winston Salem). Larry tells us this Sabal palmetto was planted around 1980, and survived the mega death winter of 1984 85 in NC. Larry's palm was grown from seed he collected years earlier from a Sabal palmetto at a motel in Fayetteville, NC, which also still survives. The broad fronds are less