Mexican Palmetto

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Plant Characteristics
Habit   palm-cycad

Height: 60 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 60.
Width: 12 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Lifespan: perennial
Cultivation
Exposure: sun
USDA Zones: 9 to 12
Flower features: white
Scientific Names

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Plant Characteristics
Lifespan: perennial
Origin: [[Origin::Texas to Guatemalasn]]
Cultivation
Exposure: full sun"full sun" is not in the list (sun, part-sun, shade, unknown) of allowed values for the "Exposure" property., part-shade"part-shade" is not in the list (sun, part-sun, shade, unknown) of allowed values for the "Exposure" property.
Water: moderate
Features: tropical effect"Tropical effect" is not in the list (evergreen, deciduous, flowers, fragrance, edible, fruit, naturalizes, invasive, foliage, birds, ...) of allowed values for the "Features" property.
Sunset Zones: 10, 12-17, 19-31
Scientific Names

Arecaceae >

Sabal >

mexicana >



Read about Mexican Palmetto in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Sabal texana, Becc. (S. mexicana, Auth., not Mart. Inodes texana, Cook). Robust palm, to 50 ft. and 2 1/2 ft. diam. of trunk which is bright reddish brown: lvs. 5-7 ft. across, shining and yellowish green, the segms. often parted and filamentose, the petiole stout and equaling or exceeding the blade: terminal branchlets of infl. slender: seed about 1/2 in. broad, with a prominent micropyle. S. Texas. S.S. 10:508.


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