Sabal palmetto grows in the southeastern United States, often alongside pines and other conifers. Here, either in full sun or shade, palmetto palms form sturdy, straight trunks bearing a rounded crown with circular, green to blue-green fan fronds. With age, these leaf stalks fall off, leaving gray, smooth trunks. In Florida, where the palmetto palm is the national/state tree, as in South Carolina, they thrive in any soil, no matter how barren, and thrive in both swampy areas and sandy coastal soil. Although they are very drought-tolerant, a constant supply of water in containers ensures that these already slow-growing palms produce one crown of leaves per year. Since this Sabal species is also frost-tolerant, unheated winter quarters are sufficient.
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