Cabbage Palm

Description:

Appearance: The Cabbage Palm has a single, gray, unbranched trunk covered with old leaf bases, also known as boots. Leaf bases create a criss-cross pattern. It gets smoother as the palm matures. Trunk is about 10-15 inches in diameter. Because there is no crownshaft, large leaves grow right from the trunk spreading in all directions 10-20 ft wide. Leaves range in color from bright green to deep olive green. Spineless stems are about 5-6 ft long. The Cabbage Palm has costapalmate type leaves, mix of palmate and pinnate, or mix of feather shaped and fan shaped leaves. Leaves have 50-80 leaflets that are about 1″ to 2″ wide. The Cabbage Palm is very durable and resistant to breaking with strong root system which penetrates the soil to 15-20 feet deep. In the wild Sabal palmetto can grow up to 80ft tall, but in cultivation it usually doesn’t get higher than 30-40 ft tall and 10-15 ft wide.

Habitat:

Holly Bluff Marina grounds.