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Types of Palm Trees in America
America has a wide area suitable for different types of palm trees, notably ones from Florida, California, Arizona, Colombia, and Mexico.

1. Sabal Palm
The first one on our list is the sabal palm tree, which is the state tree of Florida. Palm trees such as the sabal palm are low maintenance, simple to grow, transferable, and have high resistance to hurricanes, floods, and fires. The sabal palm’s durability allows it to grow just about anywhere. As a result, other native Florida palm trees cannot compete with its overwhelming popularity

The sabal palm goes by many names: the cabbage palm, sabal palmetto, blue palmetto, Garfield’s tree, common palmetto, cabbage palmetto, and the swamp cabbage. Sabal palms are one of the 15 species of palmetto palms. You can also find them existing on the Lower East Coast and other Southern parts of the United States.

2. Roystonea Regia
Another one of the types of palm trees native to Florida is the Roystonea regia. An interesting fact in the history of the Roystonea regia is that scientists once split into two species: the Cuban royal palm and the Florida royal palm. Thanks to the combining of the two species, there are now only three types of royal palms in the world.

The Roystonea regia isn’t just native to Florida. You can find these royal palm trees in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. However, it’s also important to note that people commonly use the Roystonea regia as an ornamental tree. This results in them being planted nearly everywhere there is a tropical climate.

The Roystonea regia can live at a maximum of 150 years. They can also reach up to a maximum of 113 feet. Roystonea regia palms have smooth grey-white trunks with a bulge separated by a unique green crownshaft. These palm trees can also produce white or pink flowers and edible dates.

3. The California Fan Palms
The California Fan is the most famous among the types of palm trees in California, Baja. You can call them the desert fan palm, the Washingtonia filifera, and the California palm. These palm trees are native only in the free state of Mexico and in the southwestern part of the United States.

The California fan palm reaches a maximum height of 66 feet and 20 feet broad. Its leaves are waxy and fan-shaped, hence the name. They also have a distinctive skirt made up of the dead fronds that hang on them. You can find wild California fan palms in the desert as they thrive on moderately alkaline soil with dry climates. However, they are also an ideal choice of Californian gardens. California fan palms are also adaptable to temperature. The palm trees can withstand heat waves during the summer and the freezing temperatures of winter. This results in imports of the desert fan palm to other locations with similar weather.

There are three ways the California fan palm aids in the survival of different wildlife in the desert. Firstly, the hooded orioles use the leaf fibers of the fan palm to make their nests. Secondly, canyon tree frogs, Pacific chorus frogs, Baja ratsnakes, and western yellow bats all use the fan palm for shelter. And thirdly, coyotes harvest the ripened fruits of the fan palm during winter. In return, the coyotes become important seed distributors throughout the area.

4. Needle Palmetto
The Needle Palmetto starts off as a spiky palm plant and grows up to 3 to 10 feet long. Botanists agree that the needle palmetto is one of the toughest palm trees in the world because of its clumpy form and needle-sharp leaves. Needle Palmettos naturally grow in Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, and Mississippi. An adult needle palm can withstand a temperature of -5 degrees Fahrenheit.

Most people from Charleston, Kiawa, and Mount Pleasant prefer growing the Needle Palmetto since the natural climate of the area allows the palm tree to grow with low maintenance. Needle Palmettos are weak against saltwater. As a result, areas near the ocean rarely have these types of palm trees.

5. Quindio Wax Palms
Have you ever wondered how tall do palm trees grow? The wax palm trees of Colombia are the tallest palm trees in the world. Before the discovery of California’s sequoia trees, the Quindio wax palms were thought to be the tallest trees on earth. Quindio wax palms can stand up to 200 feet and are coated in wax. Botanists and explorers have been fascinated by the wax palms because of their ability to thrive on the peaks of the Andes mountain (10,000 feet above sea level). Colombia eventually declared the wax palms as the country’s national tree in 1985 because of their dominance in the area despite their rarity.

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source: facts.net
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