Sabal etonia Saruma The 15" tall stalks of

The 15" tall stalks of bright reddish-purple flowers top the clump in late winter

This amazing new hybrid from Bob Solberg is a cross of H

unobscured by the old leaves

Greg Grant

the shiny foliage is also deeply ribbed as well as ruffled along the edges

Sabal etonia Saruma The 15" tall stalks ofThis cute north central Florida endemic to very dry, sandy soils has proven to be another great cold hardy palm for us in Zone 7b. Sabal etonia is effectively a dwarf, subterranean, trunked Sabal palmetto with the same costapalmate leaves (the center of the leaf folds downward). Our 20 year old specimen measures 4' tall x 8' wide. Sabal etonia also has much smaller leaves with narrower leaf segments than either Sabal minor or Sabal palmetto, and much