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Sabal rosei

Sabal rosei
Photo: NasserHalaweh, CC BY-SA 4.0

Sabal rosei is a fan palm from the Pacific coast of Mexico that tolerates both flooding and drought, though it is usually found in dry areas. It is a hardy, low-maintenance palm once established.

Family
Arecaceae (Palm family)
Grows as
Palm
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water deeply during establishment, then let the soil dry between waterings; it tolerates drought once mature.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil; tolerates a range of soil types.
Temperature
Hardy to USDA zone 8a; protect young plants below about -7 °C
How easy
Easy
Native range
Mexico (Sinaloa to Jalisco)
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Sabal rosei, the Llanos palmetto or Savannah palmetto, is a species of flowering plant in the palm family Arecaceae, native to the Pacific coast of Mexico, from Sinaloa to Jalisco. Hardy to USDA zone 8a, it tolerates both flooding and drought, although it is typically found in dry areas.

Other Sabal plants

Puerto Rico palmetto · Dwarf Palmetto · Cabbage Palmetto · Royal Palmetto · Sonoran Palmetto · Palmetto

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sabal rosei by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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