Palmetto Bay, Florida, Palmetto Bay
Palmetto (meaning "little palm") may refer to: Palms Several small palms in the Arecaceae (palm tree) family: *in the genus ''Sabal'': **Bermuda palmetto, ''Sabal bermudana'' **Birmingham palmetto, Sabal 'Birmingham', ''Sabal'' 'Birmingham' **Dwarf, or bush palmetto, ''Sabal minor'' **Hispaniola palmetto, ''Sabal domingensis'' **Mexican, Texas, or Rio Grande palmetto, ''Sabal mexicana'' **Cabbage palmetto, ''Sabal palmetto'' **Scrub palmetto, ''Sabal etonia'' **Sonoran palmetto, ''Sabal uresana'' **Yucatán palmetto, ''Sabal gretheriae'' *Saw palmetto, ''Chamaerops humilis'', native to Europe and north Africa *Saw palmetto, ''Serenoa repens'', native to North America *Silver saw palmetto, ''Acoelorrhaphe wrightii '' Places * Palmetto, Alabama * Palmetto, California * Palmetto, Florida * Palmetto Bay, Florida * Palmetto Beach, neighborhood in Tampa, Florida * Palmetto Estates, Florida * Palmetto Historic District * Palmetto, Georgia * Palmetto, Oglethorpe County, Georgia * Palme ...
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Sabal
''Sabal'' is a genus of palms (or fan-palms) endemic to the New World. Currently, there are 17 recognized species of ''Sabal'', including one hybrid species. The species are native to the subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas, from the Gulf Coast/South Atlantic states in the Southeastern United States, south through the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America to Colombia and Venezuela. Members of this genus are typically identified by the leaves which originate from a bare, unarmed petiole in a fan-like structure. All members of this genus have a costa (or midrib) that extends into the leaf blade. This midrib can vary in length; and it is due to this variation that leaf blades of certain species of ''Sabal'' are strongly curved or strongly costapalmate (as in ''Sabal palmetto'' and ''Sabal etonia'') or weakly curved (almost flattened), weakly costapalmate, (as in ''Sabal minor''). Like many other palms, the fruit of ''Sabal'' are drupe, that typically change from green ...
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