Sabal mexicana
Mexican Sabal
Landscape Environment
Grow Region: 8-11
Origin:
Drought Tolerance: High
Cold Tolerance: 16 to 18 F
Salt Tolerance:
Soil:
Light: Full sun
Charateristics
Mature Height: 30-50 feet
Trunk: Corky, rough rings, up to 32 inches in diameter with saxaphone base , solitary
Leaf: 80-115 leaflets with characteristic threads unraveling along the margins
Leaf Petiole: wide, 6-7 foot or longer
Armature: none, sharp petiole margins
Color:
Flowers: branched
Fruit: 14.8 millimeters, slighly flattened, round-oval and black when ripe
Human Uses:
Classification
Subfamily: Coryphoideae
Tribe: Corypheae
Subtribe: Sabalinae