Abstract Natural Geometry Sabal palmetto

by Sandra Pena de Ortiz

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Abstract Natural Geometry Sabal palmetto

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Sandra Pena de Ortiz

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Photograph - Photography

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A close range photograph minimally manipulated digitally of the higher levels of the complex structure of a Sabal palmetto palm tree. Sabal palmetto palm trees are also known as cabbage trees, Sabal palm, cabbage palmetto and by several other names. This beautiful palm tree is native to the subtropical and warm temperate southeastern United States, including South Carolina and Florida where Sabal palmetto is actually the state's tree. The tree in also indigenous to Cuba and the Bahamas. The palm tree is almost always characterized by a dense well rounded crown, not seen in the image. The trunk of Sabal palmetto is frequently completely covered with leaf bases, commonly called �boots". The multiple boots arrayed with natural geometrical randomness are the main subject of the photograph. These boots are the actual remnants of fallen leaves from the palm tree and can be seen from bottom to top of the truck because of the loss the the early palm leaves during growth and development. As you can see, the boots are symmetrically split through most of their length, with their widest diameters at the bottom and united at the top. They are grayish in color and distinctively crisscrossing. Such distinctive pattern of intersecting boots in their spatial paths around the trunk repeats repeatedly and creates an intriguing natural abstract pattern many times over looked or hidden in nature. The diameters of palmetto palm trees are exaggerated when the boots remain attached to the trunk. One specimen, planted as an ornamental in south-central Florida, showed a diameter, including boots, of about 76 cm (30 in) in 16 years. Finally, the degree of boot attachment on the trunk varies widely. One may see Sabal palmettos that are completely or almost completely bootless. These are generally very aged Sabal palmetto palm trees.

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February 25th, 2013

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