Sabal palmetto Mocksville Musella light lavender-purple flowers

light lavender-purple flowers

all atop 3' tall stalks

The late JC Raulston had the idea of crossing the Asian Calycanthus sinensis with the native Calycanthus floridus

and quantities are very limited

thick green fronds with stunning white backs line the black stipe

Sabal palmetto Mocksville Musella light lavender-purple flowersThanks 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