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Royal palm, Roystonea regia: Our most spectacular palm, the royal is well named. It is tall and straight, with a cement-gray trunk slightly bulged in the center, topped by a bright, glossy-green crownshaft. Its sweeping, feather-shaped leaves may be 10 feet long and 6 feet wide. A row of these beautiful palms in a park or along a boulevard is simply stunning, and on windy days the sound of their rustling fronds is delightful. Florida and Cuban royal palms were once considered to be distinct, but botanists now group them together in a single species. Royal palms are sensitive to cold and St. Petersburg is the approximate northern limit of their range. https://pinellas.fnpschapters.org/native-plant-profiles/palms/