The Sabal of the Pacific coast
Sabal rosei is an elegant palm from western Mexico, where it grows in tropical dry and seasonally dry forests. Its silhouette is particularly distinctive due to the contrast between its slender trunk and compact crown of deeply costapalmate leaves, which can arch to form an almost spherical canopy. Interestingly, it was for a long time closely associated with Sabal pumos, to the point that distinguishing between the two species requires particular attention to their fruits and seeds.
Habitat: Tropical deciduous and semi-deciduous forests, from sea level to around 600 metres in elevation.
Distribution: Western Mexico, from Sinaloa to Jalisco, mainly in the coastal regions along the Pacific.
Description: Single-stemmed palm, up to 15 metres tall, with a slender trunk 15–30 cm in diameter, dark green, deeply arching costapalmate leaves forming a compact crown, with filamentous segments and rounded fruits ranging from brownish green to black.
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