Also edible are the large leaf buds at the tip of the trunk, which can be eaten raw (as "hearts of palm") or cooked. Supposedly they taste like cabbage--hence the common name, cabbage palm.

Raised in New Jersey, Miller wasn’t fascinated with palm trees until he attended New College in the late ’60s and a friend asked him to draw one. They had “character,” he remembers. And ...

The cabbage palm (Sabal palmetto) is the state tree of both Florida and South Carolina. A native tree steeped in history, cabbage palms have been used for centuries by indigenous peoples and ...