Cabbage/Sabal Palm
Scientific name: Sabal palmetto
The sabal palm, or cabbage palm, is the Florida State tree. It grows as a shrub for approximately ten years then grows into a tree. Flowers are adored by pollinators. It is a larval host for the monk skipper butterfly. It likes sun or shade and usually moist soil to soil that experiences very long very dry periods.
The terminal bud/heart is cabbage-like and can be eaten cooked or raw but extracting it kills the tree. All palm trees can be used to make sugar by harvesting nectar from the flower stock & boiling to reduce the liquid.
Scientific name: Sabal palmetto
The sabal palm, or cabbage palm, is the Florida State tree. It grows as a shrub for approximately ten years then grows into a tree. Flowers are adored by pollinators. It is a larval host for the monk skipper butterfly. It likes sun or shade and usually moist soil to soil that experiences very long very dry periods.
The terminal bud/heart is cabbage-like and can be eaten cooked or raw but extracting it kills the tree. All palm trees can be used to make sugar by harvesting nectar from the flower stock & boiling to reduce the liquid.
Scientific name: Sabal palmetto
The sabal palm, or cabbage palm, is the Florida State tree. It grows as a shrub for approximately ten years then grows into a tree. Flowers are adored by pollinators. It is a larval host for the monk skipper butterfly. It likes sun or shade and usually moist soil to soil that experiences very long very dry periods.
The terminal bud/heart is cabbage-like and can be eaten cooked or raw but extracting it kills the tree. All palm trees can be used to make sugar by harvesting nectar from the flower stock & boiling to reduce the liquid.