Sabal palmetto, commonly known as cabbage palm, cabbage palmetto, sabal palm, blue palmetto, Carolina palmetto, common palmetto, Garfield’s tree, and swamp cabbage. It is native to the far southeast United States, the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, the West Indies, and the Bahamas.

As the state tree of Florida and South Carolina, the Cabbage Palmetto is an emblem of the South. Its fan-shaped leaves and tolerance for salt and wind make it ideal for coastal regions.

It grows up to 80 ft tall. Starting to two-thirds the height, the tree develops into a rounded, coastal fan of numerous leaflets. A coastal leaf has a definite costa, unlike the typical palmate or fan leaf, but the leaflets are arranged radially like in the palmate leaf.

The fruit is a black drupe containing a single seed. It is extremely salt-tolerant and is often seen growing on the coastal plain and along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico coasts.

Source: Wikipedia.