Sabal rosei
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Habitat and Distribution
Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest. Found in tropical deciduous forests to 2,500'
Description
Leaves deeply recurved and costapalmate. Mature height: 48', Mature spread: 18'. Green with a tight compact crown, and fairly slender trunk. Very attractive leaf base pattern on trunk. (PSNCC)
Slender palm 15m tall, trunk 15-30 cm in diameter breast high gray, smooth, leaves 10-30 evenly green, strongly costapalmate, filiferous, petioles 1.8-2.4 cm wide, 1-2 m long, hastula acute 5.1-7.0 cm long, glabrescent (often with lepidote pubescence on adaxial surface of midveins), margin of hastula flat and undulate, occasionally revolute, involute, or erect, segments 60-80 per leaf connate for 25% of their length, middle segment 55-110 cm long, 2.3-4.3 cm wide, 0.2-0.3 mm thick, apex bifurcate for 30-40 cm (rarely undivided), fruit oblate spheroidal, greenish brown black, medium to thick pericarp 15.3-22.4 mm in diameter, 13.5-20.1 mm high, seed strongly oblate concave, 10-15.5 mm in diameter, 6.4-8.7 mm high. (Eric S. botanist, H.P. Lou Gardens, Orlando, FL.) Editing by edric.
Culture
Cold Hardiness Zone: 8b. Cold Tolerance: 20° F
Comments and Curiosities
This is a tillering palm, it exhibits saxophone style root growth (it has a heel), keep top third of heel above soil elevation!
"Grows well in Augusta, GA., but is more prone to scale than some of the other Sabals. Produces seed at a young age. The greenest of the Sabals." (Joe Le Vert)
"One of the more slender species, from Mexico, with relatively narrow, wedge shaped, markedly costapalmate leaves. Grows up to 45' tall, but usually shorter. Slow palm and not one of the more ornamental species, or commonly grown in cultivation." (Geoff Stein)
- IMAGE GALLERY
Sabal rosei.
Augusta, GA. Photo by Joe Le Vert.
Photo-Horticopia inc.
Balboa Park, San Diego, California. Photo by Geoff Stein, edric.
SoCal. Photo by Geoff Stein, edric.
SoCal. Photo by Geoff Stein, edric.
SoCal. Photo by Geoff Stein, edric.
SoCal. Photo by Geoff Stein, edric.
University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley. Photo by growin, edric.
Huntington Botanical Gardens, Pasadena, CA. Photo by growin, edric.
Huntington Botanical Gardens, Pasadena, CA. Photo by growin, edric.
San Diego Botanic Garden, CA. Photo by growin, edric.
Northern Nayarit, Mexico. Photo by growin, edric.
Northern Nayarit, Mexico. Photo by growin, edric.
About 60 miles south of Puerto Vallarta, around 1000' above sea level, near Tomatlán, Mexico. Photo-geographylists.com.
Cataman Resort San Diego, CA. Photo-geographylists.com.
Bergstrom Gardens, San Diego, CA. Photo-Bergstom Collection.
Cataman Resort San Diego, CA. Photo by Kyle Wicomb, edric.
Bergstrom Gardens, San Diego, CA. Photo-Bergstom Collection.
Bergstrom Gardens, San Diego, CA. Photo-Bergstom Collection.
Mexico. Tropical deciduous forest habitat. Photo by Bob Lauri, edric.
In cleared pasture habitat, Nayarit State, Mexico. Photo by Bob Lauri, edric.
Sqare=2 mm.
External Links
- Glossary of Palm Terms
- MODERN BOTANICAL LATIN
- "Just To Be Clear"
- THE SAXOPHONE STYLE ROOT GROWTH (HEEL)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_woJJclJgCs
- http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/12043-sabal-pumos-vs-sabal-rosei/
References
Phonetic spelling of Latin names by edric.
Special thanks to Geoff Stein, (Palmbob) for his hundreds of photos.
Special thanks to Palmweb.org, Dr. John Dransfield, Dr. Bill Baker & team, for their volumes of information and photos.
Glossary of Palm Terms; Based on the glossary in Dransfield, J., N.W. Uhl, C.B. Asmussen-Lange, W.J. Baker, M.M. Harley & C.E. Lewis. 2008. Genera Palmarum - Evolution and Classification of the Palms. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. All images copyright of the artists and photographers (see images for credits).
Many Special Thanks to Ed Vaile for his long hours of tireless editing and numerous contributions.
