Southern Outer Banks Palms 2019

After driving past Salvo NC, we entered Avon NC.  the last town before Hatteras Island.   We saw more scattered Palmettos and Pindos and a Couple European fan Palms and windmills.  However I did see one very big, ragged but healthy Washingtonia palm.  Clearly a hybrid Filibusta, It looked pretty green on the top half of the fronds.  It looks like it had a volunteer seedling but it didn't make it apparently.  This palm was Massive . Especially the trunk .  It was the only Washingtonia I saw in the entire outer banks besides a very young small Robusta planted in Buxton that clearly hasn't been there that long.


This building also had a small healthy Pindo palm on the streetside.  Some healthy sagos were also nearby.


Speaking of Sago Palms, once we got into Buxton on Hatteras Island there was a large abundance of Sagos many were pretty big too.


Entering the Town of Buxton we saw a nice big clump of European fan palms outside a diner.

There was also a small, very beat up Date palm . This palm has been there since at least 2007 according to Google Maps and has gained virtually no size.  It seems to survive every bad winter despite being planted in low nutrient sand and being exposed to winds off the ocean and salt spray.  however it has a lot of green growth and clearly made it.



















The main street had a few palms around.  Some Pindos and a Good amount of Palmettos were planted outside some rental units and the Gas Station.  One of the Palmettos looked like it was planted at a small size and had a thicker trunk as seed grown palms tend to adapt better to the colder area than Florida transplants.
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Another nearby Gas station also had some nice Sabal Palmetto out front.  Google streetview showed a Washingtonia palm nearby but it is now a stump probably due to a bad winter.  One of the Planted palms looks to have been planted as a double but one trunk died a while back. It looks quite shriveled up and decayed now.


There is quite a few Palmettos in that area and I decided not to take a picture of them all, but I did notice this nice one in a shady area.  I also saw this very nice full crowned Pindo palm, probably one of the Nicest I saw on the whole trip.


I did not see too many windmills around this area however, but these ones outside some apartments looked pretty nice.  Also on the property was a nice European Fan palm clump. Prickly pear cacti were also very abundant.