How to pronounce “palmetto” in English

Caribbean. Out were the sprawling city dwindles and finally ends beyond where the malls and bungalows and gated communities of the suburbs turn into trailerparks and the trailer parks eventually merge with palmetto scrub and cane fields and mangrove marsh out beyond the great Pensacola swamp, a flattenedred sun glimmers near the low, unbroken horizon. Streaked with tangerine strips of cloud the western sky turns turquoise and then orange