Sabal etonia Highlight fruited branches cut well for

fruited branches cut well for holiday greenery

Grow the maypop on a fence

a reminder that this restrained ornamental has a working life as well

though the plant shears if asked

Sabal etonia Highlight fruited branches cut well forSabal etonia, the scrub palmetto, is a small fan palm found nowhere in the world but Florida, where the palm is a signature of the sand pine scrub, most abundantly along the ancient dunes of the Lake Wales Ridge. The specific epithet etonia comes from the Etonia scrub of Putnam County, the country where the species was first collected, so the botanical name carries a Florida place with it. Most of the trunk lives underground. Scrub palmetto usually