Saw Palmetto Palm Tree [Serenoa repens]

Saw Palmetto Palm Trees of age one or two years old are not guaranteed to be replaced, because the trunk bark has not developed sufficiently to protect from tissue freezing.

Dwarf Saw Palmetto Palm Tree - Serenoa repens

High demand from the landscaping nursery industry has stressed the supply and availability of the Saw Palmetto Palm tree, “Serenoa repens”. The Dwarf Saw Palmetto palm tree grows as a silver form and a green form. Saw Palmetto palm trees are not fast growing but are evergreen and cold hardy in many Northern areas of the United States, where snow and ice damage most green plants. Cold hardy palm trees are a valuable landscape tree in cold areas where a tropical look, around pools and patios are useful.

Dwarf Saw Palmetto Palm Tree, Serenoa repens

The Dwarf Saw Palmetto Palm Tree grows into clusters by division, appearing in the South as a dominant shrub in pine tree thickets and forests on the Eastern seacoast. The Dwarf Saw Palmetto Palm Tree is named, because of the two rows of saw teeth on the palm leaves, and palmetto-meaning small palm (dwarf). These clusters of palm trees rarely grow over 6 feet tall, but the dense protection of the saw tooth leaves is a favorite habitat of wildlife animals and birds. Foxes and snakes are constantly seeking wildlife food sources, and these animals make their burrows there too, often within the sandy dugouts of the land turtle, the terrapin, also called the “gopher” in parts of the South.

The Saw Palmetto grows so aggressively along U.S. highway 82, between Waycross and Brunswick, GA, that the State's transportation department sprays the Saw Palmetto Palm clusters with roundup causing the leaves to turn a brilliant orange, but often the clusters recoup themselves from the deep roots, returning vigorously after time. The seed of the sawtooth palmetto palms are sought after by birds, and the seed are widely spread through the pine forests to grow and choke out other plants.

Very old Saw Palmetto Palm Trees can grow trunks above the ground several feet tall capped by a rosette of exotic fans of palm leaves. These Saw Palmetto trees are sometimes 50 years old, very expensive, rare and collectible at ocean resorts, because of their bazaar shape, salt water adaptability and evergreen nature. Many coastal resorts leave the native dwarf saw palmetto trees in the landscape around borders of the property and driveway entrances. The saw tooth dwarf palm tree is slow growing by nature, which makes it a survivor of temperatures of zero degrees F or lower.

Nursery grown, dwarf, sawtooth palmetto palm trees are widely sought after to plant in Northern areas, because of their cold hardiness and evergreen nature. Of course the most desirable sawtooth palmetto plantings are those that are growing in the wild from native palms at newly established housing developments.

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