Cabbage palm, saw palmetto and scrub palmetto are all common in the area, and would have been so 8,000 years ago.
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Elliott had the palmetto scrub burned where Hucks'body was found.
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They are often found in scrub patches of palmetto and occasionally near swamps, where amphibian prey is abundant.
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Palmetto scrub, palm and pine trees sprout from the sandy ground, osprey nests can be seen in the highest branches and lizards and other small animals dart through the leaves.
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He's the quarterback who can dance around while avoiding tacklers in a gridiron waltz that drops jaws, yet he'll lower the boom as a defensive back like a wild hog emerging from the palmetto scrub.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The sleepy little Florida village in its groves of palmetto bush and scrub pine was profoundly affected by these two dynamic icons of Midwestern culture.