这期我们要介绍的北美洲亚热带棕榈是很有特色的箬棕属植物。根据不同的文献资料,箬棕属(Sabal)植物分别有25或15个种的记载(有些暂无适当的中文名称),它们广泛分布于哥伦比亚至墨西哥东北部和美国的东部及邻近岛屿,直到北纬37度线附近,大体相当于我国山东、河北、黄河下游地区,可见这是 The North American subtropical palm we are going to introduce in this issue is a unique feature of the palm tree. According to different literature, there are 25 or 15 species of Sabal plants (some not yet available in Chinese), which are widely distributed between Colombia and the northeast of Mexico and the eastern and neighboring islands of the United States until 37 degrees north latitude near the line, roughly equivalent to China’s Shandong, Hebei, the lower reaches of the Yellow River, we can see that this is