Sabal palmetto Mocksville Musella all atop 3' tall stalks

all atop 3' tall stalks

but with a clear yellow border around the leaves

the 1' wide clumps are topped with near-white flowers on 12" scapes

irregular yellow border

light lavender-purple flowers

Sabal palmetto Mocksville Musella all atop 3' tall stalksThanks to hardy palm grower Larry Green for sharing seed from the Sabal palmetto growing at his former family home in Mocksville, NC (1 hour southwest of Winston Salem). Larry tells us this Sabal palmetto was planted around 1980, and survived the mega death winter of 1984 85 in NC. Larry's palm was grown from seed he collected years earlier from a Sabal palmetto at a motel in Fayetteville, NC, which also still survives. The broad fronds are less