Texas Palmetto

While walking my dog this afternoon, I noticed some new neighbors had just planted juvenile Texas Palm trees also name as Mexican Palmetto or Sabal Mexicana. I’m not sure how old these are but considering palms can grow up to 60 feet in height shows the youth of the one pictured below. There are over 2,500 species of palm trees but this kind is only really found (natively) between South and Central Texas, Mexico, and the along the Gulf Coast. It is often a common choice for a landscape plant because it has a high tolerance for cold and salt spray.

 

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iNaturalist Link: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4271463

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