Sabal Palm

This week, News-Press storyteller Amy Bennett Williams pays homage to Florida’s state tree: the sabal Palm. Sabal palms can be found all over her rural Alva homestead and can grow in just about any soil making it the most widely distributed palm tree in the state. In addition to its aesthetic beauty, the sabal palm is also useful for food and medicine. And for Florida’s wild creatures it can be both a harbinger of life...and death.