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The date palm is dioecious, having separate male and female plants. They can be easily grown from seed, but only 50% of seedlings will be female and hence fruit-bearing, and dates from seedling plants are often smaller and of poorer quality. Most commercial plantations thus use cuttings of heavily cropping cultivars.
The Judean date palm at Ketura, Israel, nicknamed Methuselah. The Judean date palm is a date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) grown in Judea.It is not clear whether there was ever a single distinct Judean cultivar, but dates grown in the region have had distinctive reputations for thousands of years, and the date palm was anciently regarded as a symbol of the region and its fertility.
Arabic: خضراوي. The name is Arabic for 'green'; it is a cultivar favoured by many Arabs. It is a soft, very dark date. Khalaṣ. Djibouti; Sudan; Bahrain; India; Kuwait; Oman; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; Syria. Arabic: خلاص. One of the major palm cultivars in Saudi Arabia. Its fruit is called Khlaṣ (خلاص).
dates. Rightfully known as nature’s candy, these carmelly morsels of ooey, gooey goodness are lusciously soft, wonderfully sweet, and unparalleled in their delectable deliciousness. While they ...
Phoenix canariensis is a large, solitary palm, 10–20 m (33–66 ft) tall, occasionally growing to 40 m (131 ft). The leaves, typically around 75 to 125 in number (but the record is for a tree on the French Riviera which bore 443 green, fresh leaves at one time), [3] are pinnate, 4–6 m (13–20 ft) long, with 80–100 leaflets on each side of the central rachis.
Phoenix sylvestris (sylvestris - Latin, of the forest) also known as silver date palm, Indian date, sugar date palm or wild date palm, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the palm family native to southern Pakistan, most of India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and Bangladesh. It has been introduced to southeastern China, Sri Lanka, Mauritius ...
Male inflorescence. 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.
Arecaceae. Bercht. & J.Presl, nom. cons. [1] The Arecaceae (/ ærəˈkeɪsiaɪ /) is a family of perennial, flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree -like and stemless plants, all commonly known as palms. Those having a tree-like form are called palm trees. [3]