Sabal minor Welfare Caesalpinia Rosettes of broad green foliage

Rosettes of broad green foliage are a bit like a small Hosta though the leaves of Calanthe are pleasantly pleated

Shuichi Hirao first sent Lycoris 'Blue Pearl' to the late US lycoris breeder Sam Caldwell under the code #251

and Sea of Japan side of Honshu

where it makes a dazzling mat of bright green foliage to 2' wide

an easy-to-grow first cousin to the famed aroid Dracunculus vulgaris

Sabal minor Welfare Caesalpinia Rosettes of broad green foliageSabal minor 'Welfare' is from a very interesting population of sabals growing in the Kendall County, Texas ghost town of Welfare. These poor scrub palms are growing in mostly open grassland, with many trunked specimens reaching 8' in height. It's possible these are another remnant population of hybrids between Sabal minor and Sabal mexicana, but who knows. Thanks to Texas plantsman Steve Lowe for sharing seed so we could make these oddities available.