Palmetto

Seeing this picture of the palmetto makes me want to cry, for various reasons.  One is that I have little to nothing interesting to say about his particular plant, and two because it brings back bad memories of me as a child trying to walk through the bushes of them and getting my legs all scratched.  But if Bartram could face the hordes of smoking alligators, I can face a plant.

The is obviously a palmetto, but it's not a "saw palmetto" as I originally thought.  The leaves are too gently curved and not stuck straight out like a mohawk hairdo.  The saw palmetto looks absolutely killer, like it could cut your legs off if you stand too close.

Anyway, here's the pic.  What kind of palmetto is it?  That's a guessing game for my blog readers (all three of them).  It also means I don't like palmettos and don't want to take the time to look it up when I could be looking up something wonderful, like the White-breasted Nuthatch!!  What a wonderful bird!