Palmetto

What Palmetto looks like

Codominant; mostly white with scattered color spots. Het Palmetto shows subtle lightening

Dominant mutation producing a leucistic-like phenotype with scattered colored scales. One of the most visually dramatic corn snake mutations. Heterozygous Palmetto (one copy): Produces a white or near-white animal with scattered single colored scales distributed randomly across the body. The colored scales may be orange, red, gray, or patterned, and their distribution is unique to each individual. No two Palmetto corn snakes look exactly alike. The random colored scales on a white background give a confetti-like appearance. Homozygous Super Palmetto (two copies): Produces a near-complete to complete leucistic animal, pure white with minimal or no colored scales. Super Palmettos are almost entirely white, lacking even the scattered scales of the het form. This phenotype is more extreme than the het form, confirming incomplete dominance. NOTE: Palmetto is NOT the same as a true leucistic mutation (which would be recessive and produce all-white animals without any scattered scales in the het form). One copy of Palmetto always produces the characteristic scattered-scale phenotype. Discovery search demand: "corn snake palmetto" averages ~2,900/mo.

How to identify it: Het Palmetto: predominantly white body with randomly scattered individual colored scales; unique pattern per individual. No standard saddle marks. Super Palmetto: entirely or nearly entirely white, very few to no colored scales. Dominant. One copy always produces visual Palmetto.

How Palmetto is inherited

Palmetto follows a incomplete dominant inheritance pattern, carried on the Palmetto allele (locus Palm).