FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
CABBAGE PALMETTO
Berzok, Lindsa Murray. 2005. American Indian Food. Food in American History. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut.
Cabbage palmetto is the most common tree-palm that grows in Florida; its range reaches up the Atlantic coast as far as Southeast North Carolina. When young, this plant contains a large bud about the size of a cabbage. The Indians ate the roundish, shiny, tender black fruits in the center of the crown, either raw or boiled.
