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Arecaceae (palm family) Cocos: cocos palm trees; Cocos nucifera: coconut palm Arecaceae (palm family) Dypsis: dypsis palm trees; Dypsis decaryi: triangle palm Arecaceae (palm family) Dypsis lutescens: cane palm; yellow palm Arecaceae (palm family) Howea: howea palm trees; Howea forsteriana: kentia palm Arecaceae (palm family) Hyophorbe ...
There are typically around 75 to 125 living leaves on a tree, but the record number were on a tree on the French Riviera, which bore 443 green, fresh leaves at one time. [4] The fruit is an oval, yellow to orange drupe 2 cm (0.79 in) long and 1 cm (0.39 in) in diameter, and containing a single large seed .
This is a list of all the genera in the botanical family Arecaceae, the palm family, arranged by tribes and subtribes within the family. [1] Genera Palmarum (2008) lists 183 genera. [2] Lanonia, Saribus, and the monotypic genera Jailoloa, Wallaceodoxa, Manjekia, [3] and Sabinaria, which were described after 2008, have also been included below.
In the United States, there are at least 12 native palm species, mostly occurring in the states of the Deep South and Florida. [16] Palms inhabit a variety of ecosystems. More than two-thirds of palm species live in humid moist forests, where some species grow tall enough to form part of the canopy and shorter ones form part of the understory. [17]
Hardy palms are any of the species of palm that are able to withstand brief periods of colder temperatures and even occasional snowfall.A few palms are native to higher elevations of South Asia where true winter conditions occur, while a few others are native to the warmer parts of the temperate zone in southern Europe, and others are native throughout temperate and subtropical locales in the ...
Macrozamia glaucophylla is a species of cycad from the genus Macrozamia and the family Zamiaceae. [3] Endemic to New South Wales, Australia, [1] this species has features that resembles palms, although both species are taxonomically quite different. [4] The current population trend of Macrozamia glaucophylla is stable with 2,500 to 10,000 ...
Its rectangular grid of roads extends over almost 8 miles and contains a million palm trees. The smaller property, Zanja Seca, is nearly the size of Manhattan. ... it tallied 1,600 species of ...
The following is a list of individual trees. Trees listed here are regarded as important or specific by their historical, national, locational, natural or mythological context. The list includes actual trees located throughout the world, as well as trees from myths and religions .