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Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the date palm, is a flowering-plant species in the palm family Arecaceae, native to the region from the Gulf States to the Lower Indus Valley. It is cultivated f
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Phoenix dactylifera trunk section. As with other members of the palm family, date palms do not produce annual tree rings.
Leaves of the date palm
Phoenix (plant)
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Phoenix is a genus of 14 species of palms, native to an area starting from the Canary Islands in the west, across northern and central Africa, to the extreme southeast of Europe, and continuing throug
Date palm
…desert regions of Southern California. It is naturalised in many tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. P. dactylifera is the type species of genus Phoenix, which contains 12–19 species of wild date palms. Date palms reach up to 30 metres (98 ft) in height, growing singly or in clumps with several stems…
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General view of the shape of a Phoenix leaf
Phoenix foliage showing V-shaped leaflets
Metamorphosed leaflets into spines, common to Phoenix