Here is Sabal texana, Acoelorrhaphe wrightii and
Butia capitata (rear). All survived the 1989 freeze when
they suffered five days below freezing with the minimum reaching
as low as 11 degrees F. The Butia and the Acoelorrhaphe
were frozen to the ground. All of the leaves were badly burned
on the Sabal.
The Sabal was transplanted from our old garden in the
Spring of 1985. As with the Washingtonia filifera pictured
on page four, it was probably transplanted too young and so its
girth is permanently stunted. In fact, we have a Sabal palmetto
in the garden that was planted from a small container the same
year, and has developed a trunk as thick as this texana. My experience
has been that S. texana and S. mexicana have substantially
heavier trunks than palmetto. Transplanting is the likely culprit! |
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