Sabal mexicana 26/4 Restock and Japanese-style plantings

and Japanese-style plantings

one of those quiet distributional puzzles that make the genus interesting

and with supplemental water on hand for dry spells

Slender yellow-green catkins open in spring

in a foundation planting

Sabal mexicana 26/4 Restock and Japanese-style plantingsSabal mexicana, the Texas Palmetto, is a large, robust fan palm once known as Sabal texana. In the United States the palm is native to the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, and formerly ranged northward along the south Texas Gulf coast, while the wider distribution reaches through eastern Mexico into Central America. The species resembles the cabbage palmetto of the Southeast but reads as heavier and more massive, and the much larger seed is the