Sabal palmetto Lisa Saxifraga Kees Sahin

Kees Sahin

Like Canna 'Panache'

topped all summer with large bright yellow flowers highlighted with dramatic orange-red speckling

4" wide x 14" long leaves cloth the 4' tall upright fleshy stalks

begin for us in mid-September with mauvy lavender tipped petals

Sabal palmetto Lisa Saxifraga Kees SahinSabal palmetto 'Lisa' is a seed strain of the Southeast US native palmetto palm, first discovered in 1998 in southwest Florida, as a patch of three specimens by palm nurseryman, Robert Riefer, and later named after his wife, Lisa. Sabal 'Lisa' is most certainly a polyploid mutant, since it produces much thicker, and less divided, less costapalmate, less filiferous leaves than typical Sabal palmetto. In propagation trials by palm guru Scott Zona, it