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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. Plants grown from cuttings ...
Mainly grown in the Al-Madina region. Soft, semi-dried date variety; distinctive deep black colour, length and medium size. Share similarities with Ajwa dates such as taste. Ṣafrir Israel: Hebrew: צפריר: Red colored sweet dates that can be eaten immediately after being harvested from the tree Sahcari Somalia: Saiedi, Saidi Libya
Deglet Nour, also spelled Deglet Noor, [a] is a cultivar of the date palm that originated in the oasis of Tolga in Algeria. [1] [2] Commonly referred to as the "queen of all dates", [3] the authentic Algerian [4] Deglet Nour date has a soft touch, a translucent light color and a honey-like taste, characteristics which distinguish it from other ...
A mature date tree supplied with sufficient water and natural fertilizer (Sibalah, زبالة) will produce in-between two and three sacks (Shawal, شوال) each about 75 kilos (1 Shawal = 15 Ruba' = 123.75 litres. [8] The exact amount depends strongly on the date variety, the specific growing conditions and age of the palm tree.
The Medjool date (Arabic: تمر المجهول - tamar al-majhūl. Tamar means 'date' and majhūl means 'unknown', from جَهِلَ jahila, 'to not know') [1] [2] also known as Medjoul, Mejhoul or Majhool, is a large, sweet cultivated variety of date (Phoenix dactylifera). It is an important commercial variety constituting some 25% of ...
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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.