Sabal etonia Highlight somewhat glaucous foliage

somewhat glaucous foliage

an eighteenth-century Irish botanist and diplomat

given a long enough run the tree may slowly gain a little more height

Grow the maypop on a fence

the remnants of a once far more widespread plant

Sabal etonia Highlight somewhat glaucous foliageSabal etonia, the scrub palmetto, is a small fan palm found nowhere in the world but Florida, where the palm is a signature of the sand pine scrub, most abundantly along the ancient dunes of the Lake Wales Ridge. The specific epithet etonia comes from the Etonia scrub of Putnam County, the country where the species was first collected, so the botanical name carries a Florida place with it. Most of the trunk lives underground. Scrub palmetto usually