5 thoughts on “A Little Something About Palm Trees”

  1. The sun’ll come out
    Tomorrow
    Bet your bottom dollar
    That tomorrow
    There’ll be sun!

    Just thinkin’ about
    Tomorrow
    Clears away the cobwebs,
    And the sorrow
    ‘Til there’s none!

    When I’m stuck a day
    That’s gray,
    And lonely,
    I just stick out my chin
    And Grin,
    And Say,
    Oh!

    The sun’ll come out
    Tomorrow
    So ya gotta hang on
    ‘Til tomorrow
    Come what may
    Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
    I love ya Tomorrow!
    You’re always
    A day
    A way!

  2. Arecaceae
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Jump to: navigation, search
    ?Arecaceae (palm family)

    Coconut Palm Cocos nucifera
    Scientific classification
    Kingdom: Plantae

    Division: Magnoliophyta

    Class: Liliopsida

    Order: Arecales

    Family: Arecaceae
    Schultz-Schultzenstein

    Genera
    Many; see list of Arecaceae genera

    Arecaceae (also known as Palmae), the Palm Family, is a family of flowering plants, belonging to the monocot order, Arecales. There are 202 currently known genera with around 2,600 species, most of which are restricted to tropical or subtropical climates. Of all the families of plants, the Arecaceae is the most easily recognizable as distinct by most persons. The type member of this family is the areca palm, the fruit of which is chewed with the betel leaf and often confused with it. The Date Palm, Rattans, and Coconut also belong to this family. Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil produced by the oil palms in the genus Elaeis. Several species are harvested for heart of palm. Palm sap is sometimes fermented to produce palm wine. The Palm Sunday festival uses palms, hence the name.

    Palms first appear in the fossil record around 70-80 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous Period.

    Economically important genera include:

    Areca
    Arenga
    Attalea
    Bactris
    Borassus – Palmyra palm
    Calamus – Rattan palm
    Cocos – Coconut
    Copernicia – Carnauba wax palm
    Elaeis – Oil palm
    Euterpe – Cabbage Heart palm, and Açaí palm
    Jessenia
    Jubaea – Chilean Wine palm and Coquito palm
    Orbignya
    Phoenix – Date palm
    Raphia – Raffia palm
    Rhapis
    Roystonea – Royal palm
    Sabal – Palmettos
    Salacca – Salak
    Trachycarpus
    Veitchia
    Wallichia
    Washingtonia
    See list of Arecaceae genera for a complete listing.

    Palm trees line Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, California.
    Washingtonia filifera
    Fruit of Phoenix dactyliferaFew palms tolerate severe cold, and the majority of the species are tropical or subtropical. The three most cold-tolerant species are Trachycarpus fortunei, native to eastern Asia, and Rhapidophyllum hystrix and Sabal minor, both native to the southeastern United States. For more details, see hardy palms.

    In the United States, different types of palm trees can be seen in tropical and mediterranean climate areas, such as Florida, (southern) California and Hawaii and along the Gulf Coast through southern Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana to Texas. The southeastern state of South Carolina is nicknamed the Palmetto State because of the number of palms that line the state’s Atlantic coast. Some palms can be grown as far north as Maryland, Arkansas, and even up along the Pacific coast to Oregon and Washington. There have even been known species of transplanted palms that have survived as far north as southern New Jersey [1]. The desert areas of Nevada, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico are also home to some native palms.

    Southern Europe has two native palms, Chamaerops humilis (widespread, but mainly seen in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Malta) and Phoenix theophrastii (Crete; also southern Turkey). Many other palms are widely planted, with the Japanese Trachycarpus wagnerianus being grown successfully as far north as Iceland.

Comments are closed.