Palm ID.
 

When I was in Orlando recently, I saw these palms all over the place. When I asked different people, at different locations, about them, I got a couple of answers so, maybe, there could be a couple that look similar. (I thought they all were the same thing.) These things are pretty tall. I took these pictures standing on a seventh floor balcony, and the tops of the fronds were even with the top of my head.

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It looks like a Mexican Fan Palm (Washingtonia robusta) to me.

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yep mexican fan palm, if you want some seeds or small plants send me a pm, they are weeds in my yard.

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Are we sure its not the Sabal Palm?

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Are those more common in Florida? The picture looks like the mexican fan palms we have all over southern California.

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Mexican Fan Palm

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And seeds pods match.

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Definitely a Washingtonia. Sabal palmettos dont have fronds shaped like that and are also much slower growing than Washingtonias. Its hard to tell from the pic, but I think you can see the tip of some sabal palmettos at the very bottom of the pic. Washingtonias are very common palms and weedy in many zone 9's and higher. I love the look of them though!
Sabal palmettos are probably the most commonly palm used in Central Florida, but Washingtonias and Queens come close.

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Thanks guys. I know nothing from palms but, to me, they don't look like the ones in the picture Tony posted. Maybe we need some more pictures.

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Definitely Washingtonia robusta. The trunk is clear, but that is pretty common in landscape specimens. The photo is a bit out of focus, but you can still see the seeds hanging down. Sabal palmetto has a costa-palmate frond that folds in the middle and they very, very rarely get as tall as the palms in the picture.

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The one in the picture Tony posted has not had the dead fronds or boots (petioles) removed. Most of the city owned Washingtonias I see around here have both done.

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I'm pretty sure this is a Mexican Fan Palm. Websites say they have spines on the petioles this one does not.

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Mexican fan palms are all over mid Florida! I even pulled one out of a drain in Ybor City when I was there. The picture of the ones from the 7th floor means those are approximately 70 feet tall. They max out at around 110 feet supposedly.

Chinese fan palms lose their teeth (thorns) when they get to some mature age. I'm not sure what it is but I've seen quite a few around New Orleans that do not have thorns/teeth/armed petioles.

I've never been tall enough to notice if either of the Washingtonias around SE Louisiana do this as well ha ha. Funny how the Filifera keep a skirt and the Robusta lose them - plus the difference in canopy is amazing! At least with mature ones. I moved a Robusta from a house outside of Mandeville, LA to Old Mandeville a half block from the lake and it's got a huge canopy on it now but it's only 18 feet tall and it's planted about 50 feet from a bayou so it gets lots of bayou mud to keep it going strong every time we get a super high tide or storm surge.