Learn what to do to help stop the palmetto weevil causing serious damage in home landscapes, nurseries, and public spaces ...

Homeowners often plant a pair of sabal palms, Sabal palmetto, on either side of the driveway or in a small grove of three or five straight-trunked trees. U.S. 19 through Crystal River is lined ...

A mysterious new microscopic palm tree killer hasn’t reached South Florida yet, but it’s on the move from the Tampa Bay area.It joins the other problems attacking our palms, such as lethal ...

The sabal palm, Sabal palmetto, our state tree, is often used by governments in highway plantings. The most common palm in Florida has to be the saw palmetto, Serenoa repens.

The palmetto tree, or cabbage palm, grows in coastal areas and is the state tree of South Carolina. Learn more about growing and caring for a palmetto tree in your yard.

Sabal palms (Sabal mexicana) go by so many names it can be confusing: Texas sabal palm, palmetto cabbage and Rio Grande palmetto are just a few. They are tolerant of various soils and can ...

Every so often, a Sabal palmetto -- also called a cabbage palm -- forms with a genetic mutation that stops it from photosynthesizing normally. The result is that its fronds are a beautiful mix of ...

Select hardier palms that survive severe freezes, such as cabbage or sabal palm (Sabal palmetto), windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei), Chinese fan palm (Livistona chinensis), Mediterranean fan ...

BEAUFORT — The sabal palmetto is a nice enough tree, and people seem to like them just fine. As evidence, just consider that the state’s nickname, the Palmetto State, is an homage to the tree.

Cabbage palm (Sabal palmetto) is the state tree of South Carolina and Florida. The taller sibling to the dwarf palmetto, it gets 20 to 30 feet high (or more) with a well-defined trunk.

Meaning, a standing sabal palm with 20 feet of trunk is at least 50 years old. The palmetto tree can be seen as a figure of significance in nearly every aspect of the state’s inception.

Select hardier palms that survive severe freezes, such as cabbage or sabal palm (Sabal palmetto), windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei), Chinese fan palm (Livistona chinensis), Mediterranean fan ...