Serenoa Repens

Scientific Name: Serenoa repens

Common Name: saw palmetto

Symbol: SERE2

Category: Monocot

Genus: Serenoa

Family: Arecaceae

Family Common Name: Palm family

Order: Arecales

Class: Liliopsida

Subkingdom: Tracheobionta

Kingdom: Plantae

Duration: Perennial

Growth Habit: Tree, Shrub

Native Status: L48 (N)

Flower Color: White

Flower Conspicuous: No

Foliage Color: Yellow-Green

Foliage Texture: Coarse

Fruit Color: Black

Edible: yes

Saw Palmetto

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Scientific Name: Serenoa Repens

Common Name(s): Saw Palmetto

Edible: yes

Medicinal: no

Parts Used: leaf

crashdive123
22 Jul, 2009

Often forms dense stands. Usually a low shrub with thick, branced, creeping or horizontal stems; occasionally erect, reaching tree-size. Leaves stiff, narrow, bladelike segments. Leafstalks usually longer than blades, armed with shard recurved spines. Flowers ivory-white; in large, fragrant, plumelike clusters. Fruit oblong, black when rigpe, 1/2 - 1 inch long. Height usually 3-7 feet. Found in sandy soils, fine forest, prairies, dunes. Eastern Louisiana to Forlida, north to Sout Carolina. Flowers May-July. Fruit October-November. Use: Salad, cooked vegetable. New leaves develop one at a time from a spikelike terminal bud at the top ot the stem. The base of the bud, the palm heard is firm textured, tet tender and makes an excellent salad or cooked vegetable. Note: Although removing the terminal bud kills the plant, palmettos are temendously abundant - virtual weeds in the deep south

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