Sabal ID please!

16 years ago

i was at a nursery in rancho cucamonga,ca & i found a sabal in a 24'in. box. it had atlease 2.5ft. of trunk but the guy there didnt no wut kind it was. he said he had it for 5 years & it looks the same! my first thought was a sabal riverside, the trunk looks very similiar to one but the leafs are different on this one. it dont have a but arch in the middle of the leafs, so am not sure about it! maybe a sabal bermudana i dont no! can someone help me, the guy offered it to me for a real good price but i really want to no wut i would be buying first! thanks james. ooh ya i put a 5g. pot next to it for scale.

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User
16 years ago
Maybe Sabal mexicana. (?)
tropicpalms
16 years ago
to me the trunk mostly looks like a sabal mauritiiformis savannah palm which is naturalized as far north as mexico. this palm is not common in cali but would def. get leaf damage in cali... so im no sure
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james760
Original Author
16 years ago
check this out i found this palm on the internet from a nursery in riverside,ca. its a sabal riverside, wut u guys think? damn! i cant paste the pic. but if you guys wana check out a kool article on palms go to www.palms4u2.com , it shows the pic of the sabal riverside to! TROPICPALMS- i checked out the sabal mauritiformis(savannah sabal) & it does resemble it alot! i hope for my sake its not cuz i just actually bought a smaller one, all post it right now in MORE NEW PALMS!
User
16 years ago
I like S. mauritiiformis, unfortunately, this is a very tender species (maybe the LEAST cold tolerant of the Sabals)--they do look very tropical and are fast growers. I might be wrong but I don't think yours is maurtiiformis.
james760
Original Author
16 years ago
NJOASIS- i like those palms too! but they will never survive in my area, so am hoping its a sabal riverside or atlease a sabal bermudana. i bought a 5g. one for $10 so am gona experiment with this one. he has about 10 more so i might get another just to have one for back up! ill keep u guys posted up, thanks!
tropicalzone7
16 years ago
S. mauritiiformis is a really beautiful palm. The trunk alone is really tropical looking. Too bad it is tropical! Thats probably more like a 9b-10a palm.
Good luck with your palms, whatever sabal it is, it is really nice, but probably not one of the more cold tolerant ones.
james760
Original Author
16 years ago
TROPICALZONE7, thanks! i cant wait till spring, then i wont have to be watching the weather channel so much lol! but say its at least a sabal bermudana, they rate it a zone 8b! is this true? sabals are not that common in cali as they are eastcoast so i dont no if its true wut they rate them!
alexpalmetto
16 years ago
this is a Sabal Riverside I have 5 growing on my back yard and they are beautiful!