I have personly never had that problem. The thing with me you can tell also sometimes. it it grows very slowly its a sabal minor grows at must faster then you wre ripped off and only got a cabbage palm. I have both they do look closely the same those. I wish you look.

I have some young S. minor, but no S.palmettos.

Great pic at the link; mine don't have the blue leaves, nor are they as long as those photographed.
But I haven't given mine the best care.

This year, I'll sink the pots into the fishpond in the hope they grow faster.

Would emailing the grower give you any ID tips for young Sabals of any variety?

Barb

marceli, found this on the EPS forum:

This species, together with some others in the genus Sabal ,can be distibguished only by the inflorescence shape and by the fruits size. With the only exception of mauritiiformis, every species of the genus Sabal shows threads in the leaves and many show arching and also very arching leaves with a variable costa. About this problem you have to wait untill your palm sets fruits. The inflorescence is as long as the leaves, it is much large and the fruits are big, about 2 cm in diameter.

from here: http://www.palmsociety.org.uk/forum/topic.asp?boardid=1&show=31&page=1&topicid=6461

Barb

It is difficult to distinguish small Sabal specimens. I bought a much larger Sabal Minor a few years ago and posted it on the EPS only for the same learned Gentleman Sergio to say sorry not Minor.. it has filaments in its leaves 😯 I do now have a Minor of a largish size and can see the leaves are fatter and much bluer than my Minor. Perhaps a Palmetto and rock solid hardy for me if very slow growing.

So the best id method is to buy S. minor seeds and wait couple years, I guess 🙂 Thx for your help.

Does not look like any S. palmetto I have seen, very cool palm! 8)

Does not look like any S. palmetto I have seen, very cool palm! 8)

So I might give it a try, if you say so 😀

The adult palm is not Sabal minor or palmetto. Looks like a Sabal from Central America.

Does not look like any S. palmetto I have seen, very cool palm! 8)

So I might give it a try, if you say so 😀

Let us knoiw how it does. 😀

It looks like Sabal minor 'louisiana'.

Hello. In the Natoinal Botanical Garden (Kyiv, Ukraine) near greenhouse I found potted sabals. Can you help me to identify the species of these sabals (minor or palmetto)?
[as I know, young sabal palmetto is very similar to sabal minor]
Here you can see photos of these palms: http://www.flickr.com/photos/102902888@N08/sets/72157635800502503/

(@ marceli) Agree with turtile, it's not Minor neither Palmeto it's some other type of Sabal which one i dont know.

(@ TT) Again photos dont show much but i think neither minor nor palmeto, its some other ecotype Sabal, other members of forum with much more expirience will tell you the specimen just by the seed size.. cheers.