Bush Palmetto (Sabal minor)

Family: Arecaceae or Palmae | Edibility: Edible (2/5)

Bloom Color: White. Main Bloom Time: Early spring, Late spring, Mid spring. Form: Palm, Upright or erect.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Fruit, Berries, Leaves, Roots/Tubers, Sap/Syrup

Harvest Seasons: Early Summer, Fall, Late Summer, Spring, Winter

Flavor & Culinary Uses

sweet flesh. — Fresh root slices have been baked and eaten as bread.; The fruit is a small dry berry up to 10mm in diameter, with a thin sweet flesh.; Although we have seen no other records of edibility for this species, the following uses are for the related S.; They quite probably also apply here.

Habitat & North American Range

An understorey shrub of broad-leaved, mainly deciduous woodlands in low-lying river terrace areas and other sites where water at the roots is readily available. (Zone 8)