Myrtle Oak

Common Names: Myrtle oak

Latin Names: Quercus myrtifolia

Type: Tree

Origin: Native

Edible: x

Myrtle oak (June)

Palm ?

Common Names: Cabbage palm, palmetto, blue palmetto, carolina palmetto, common palmetto, swamp cabbage

Latin Names: Sabal palmetto

Type: Tree

Origin: Native

Or Pindo Palm - Butia capitata ...or something else. App says golden cane palm or African oil palm or Canary Island palm

Edible: Heart of the palm is edible but this kills the tree. They say that the fruit outside the seed is edible or can be chewed. If Pindo, can make a jelly from the fruit.Young leaf buds are edible raw or cooked. Oil from the seed is like coconut oil.

--> Fruit part of the seed is very thin and woody. Couldn't eat it.

Other uses: Palm leaf stalk used for fiber. Leaves used to make mats, hats, and baskets. The wood has specific uses.

Note: Tree is drought tolerant, salt tolerant, cold hardy, pest and disease free.

Online I've found a procedure to germinate the seeds. Starting a trial. Took fresh seeds (just fell off tree. However most seeds had already been eaten by wildlife & bugs. None of the seeds looked dark like online pictures. They looked more like green seeds but they had already dropped off the tree and few seeds were left in the tree. Removed the outer skin/fruit on them and soaked in water for 24 hours).

Palm (June)

Palm (June)

Palm (June)

Palm - fruit (June)

Palm (late June) - fruit almost gone

Palm (late June) - fruit w/ seed
inside

Palm (late June)
- Fruit/nut almost all eaten and on the ground

Oak ?

Common Names: White Oak???

Latin Names: Quercus bicolor

Type: Tree

Origin: Native

Edible: x

Notes: Grows very large and some trees are several hundreds of years old. Can grow as wide as it is tall. Online information says the trees don't produce acorns until it is at least 50 years old, germination rate is only 10%, and the amount of acorns vary every year. Our 2 trees in the front yard are in their 20's (planted as an acorn by the previous home owners) and produce lots of very large acorns in the last two years and we see lots of seedlings below the tree. We've planted several acorns and are starting new trees. The biggest problem has been that deer eat the seedlings.

Barks has a series of holes around the circumference on both trees in the front and the tree in back. Believed to be yellow-bellied sapsucker holes.

***Not sure of oak species. Neighbor says this is White Oak but it doesn't seem to fit into normal northern U.S. distribution and leaf shape is wrong. App says Pendunculate oak or sessile oak. ***

Quercus michauxii Nuttall - Swamp chestnut oak?

? Oak (May)

? Oak (May)

? Oak (May)

? Oak (May)

? Oak (May)

? Oak (June)

? Oak (April)

? Oak (April)