Talk:Sabal palmetto

There are no recent records of this species on Cape Hatteras and I have rewritten the Cape Hatteras reference to (hopefully) clarify it. The sentence "A disjunct population also exists on Cape Hatteras in North Carolina" is a mangling of a statement from a U.S. government publication (cited in the article) that says "A disjunct population has been reported [emphasis added] at Cape Hatteras, NC", citing E.L. Little's 1979 checklist of trees and shrubs. This checklist in turn probably bases its record on an 1883 account of this species on Cape Hatteras, but that account also commented that the Cape Hatteras population was extirpated well over 100 years ago (although this population was apparently never documented with specimens). This underscores the need to refer to primary references (e.g., Zona's revision of the genus) rather than relying on secondary (or in this case, tertiary or worse) sources. MrDarwin 15:51, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Stand of Palmetto's In Kennesaw, GA (Newly adj. to zone 8a)

Off of US HWY 41 along side of the old 20 acre pasture now a Kennesaw city park and about 1 mile south of North Cobb High School lining the roadside are some mysterious stands of 30+ years palmettos. Tallest Reaching about 33 feet. The strange thing is the stand of palmetto's grow in a thicket of shrubs and were not planted, but appear to have been wild but this surely cannot explain it. They have tolerated the red clay soil and some of the harshest winter of the North GA piedmont... Quite strange how ever according to local residents there is a claim that in the mid-60's a near neighbor had a small palm nursery which failed so the he/she had moved. It is not clear if the person had planted these or not because the home had been a few yards away from the thicket. Could the palms have seeds that had produced a individual stand?