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Sabal mexicana (Mexican Palmetto)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Sabal mexicana is a species of palm tree that is native to North America. Common names include Rio Grande palmetto, Mexican palmetto, Texas palmetto, Texas sabal palm, palmmetto cabbage and palma de mícharos. The specific epithet, "mexicana", is Latin for "of Mexico."
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium
Fruit Conspicuous [2]  No
Edible [3]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [3]  Evergreen
Lifespan [4]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Tree
Usage [3]  The leaves are used for making baskets, chair seats or thatch; The following reports are for S. palmetto. They quite probably also apply to this species; An excellent fibre is obtained from the leaf stalks; The best quality is from young leaf stalks still in the bud, whilst coarser material is obtained from older leaves or the bases of old leaf stalks surrounding the bud; The fibres are up to 50cm long, they are harvested commercially and used to make brushes, especially where these have to remain stiff in hot water or caustics; The roots contain tannin;
Height [3]  33 feet (10 m)
Width [3]  13.12 feet (4 m)
Fruit Color [2]  Black
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Predators

Artibeus jamaicensis (Jamaican fruit-eating bat)[5]
Pseudaulacaspis cockerelli (false oleander scale)[6]

Range Map

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Kissling, W. Daniel et al. (2019), Data from: PalmTraits 1.0, a species-level functional trait database for palms worldwide, v4, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ts45225
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 5Artibeus jamaicensis, Jorge Ortega and Iván Castro-Arellano, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 662, pp. 1–9 (2001)
♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0