What is Saw palmetto?

Saw palmetto stems accommodate awkward logs and accept been acclimated for pulp,although the superior of the cardboard produced is poor.

Although occasionally eaten by cattle, saw palmetto has little amount as livestock beat and is a rangeland pest.

Saw-palmetto helps accommodate primary abode for the wildlife of southern Florida's palmetto prairies. Distinctive breed cover the crested caracara, the Florida burrowing owl, and the Florida sandhill crane.

As a affiliate of abrade communities, saw palmetto provides capital abode for beach skinks, the Florida mouse, and a array of birds, including the Florida abrade jay--a threatened subspecies. Black bears augment on saw palmetto bake-apple and the adolescent shoots which sprout afterwards winter fires in the Florida flatwoods. White-tailed deer aswell eat saw palmetto fruit, abnormally during dry years .

Saw palmetto can be acclimated for watershed protection, abrasion control, and phosphate-mine affirmation .