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One plant is topped with about 15 mature leaves at a time. [7] The pinnate frond is up to 4 meters long [4] and typically palm-like in appearance. It has many leaflets arranged irregularly, clustered and angled. [6] The underside is glaucous. [4] A mature, expanded leaf lasts for about 4.5 years, and the plant grows 3 to 5 new leaves per year.
Phoenix reclinata is a dioecious clumping palm, producing multiple stems from 7.5 to 15 m in height and 30 cm in width. Foliage is pinnate and recurved, growing 2.5 to 4.5 m in length and 0.75 m in width. Leaf color is bright to deep green on 30 cm petioles with long, sharp spines at the base, with 20 to 40 leaves per crown.
Oncosperma tigillarium grows to 12m (possibly up to 30m) in height in dense thickets of up to 50 palm trees. The trunks of the palms are covered with long black spines. Oncosperma tigilarium has finely pinnate leaves, with drooping leaflets. [4] [5] [6] [7]
The Canary Island date palm differs from the date palm in having a stouter trunk, more leaves to the crown, more closely spaced leaflets, and deep green rather than grey-green leaves. The fruit of P. canariensis is edible, but rarely eaten by humans because of their small size and thin flesh.
Leaves can be up to 3 m (10 feet) long. Each leaf is made of many pairs of leaflets shaped like tail fins that give this palm its name. [11] Flowers are purple and grow on hanging spikes. [11] Its fruits turn dark purple or red when they are ripe, they are harmful to humans. [8] [12] The tree slowly deteriorates not long after it bears fruit. [11]
This palm tree usually grows up to 10 - 15 metres tall. [3] The leaves are pinnate, 3–4 m (10–13 ft) long, with numerous slender, 50–100 cm (1 ft 8 in – 3 ft 3 in) long leaflets. Petioles of the leaves are also covered with spines. The flowers are small, produced on a large branched inflorescence 1.5 m (5 ft) long.
Sabal palmetto grows up to 20 m (80 ft) tall. [8] Starting at half to two-thirds the height, the tree develops into a rounded, costapalmate fan of numerous leaflets.A costapalmate leaf has a definite costa (midrib), unlike the typical palmate or fan leaf, but the leaflets are arranged radially like in a palmate leaf.
The leaves of the adult plants have been used to make brooms and for weaving mats, carrier baskets, and similar articles. For finer work the young, unopened leaves are treated with sulphur to soften them and provide supple fibre. The husk, known in southern Spain as "higa", is edible before it becomes too tough to eat as it matures.