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6 unusual facts about Arecaceae


Chateau Aeroport-Mirabel

It had a large indoor atrium style foyer with fully grown palm trees, garden foliage, swimming pool and heated whirlpool; over which most rooms looked.

Kempinski Hotel Airport Munich

The hotel's grand plaza is a 24- metre high and 1400 square metre large atrium hall with a glass roof and decorated with palm trees (18 metres tall) from Florida.

KESQ-TV

Airing an analog signal on UHF channel 42, it used the KPLM-TV call sign named for the "Palm" as in "Palm Springs".

Northeast Cape Fear River

The river and its valley are home to a variety of interesting and uncommon flora and fauna, including the palmetto, cypress, alligator, pileated woodpecker and bowfin.

Palm flour jelly ball

This type of palm is usually found in tropical areas of South Central Asia particularly in India thru the Philippines and some parts of northern Australia.

Weggis

The town has a famously mild climate and is well known for the numerous southern plants (chestnut trees, palms, grapes and orchids) that thrive there.


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Caloosahatchee culture

Plants collected as food included various wild roots, mastic fruit, prickly pear cactus fruit, palm fruits, sea grapes, hogplum, and cocoplum.

Carlo Morici

His working field spreads over various countries yet his research focuses on Phoenix canariensis and the palm flora originating in the Caribbean Islands, with a special dedication to the genus Coccothrinax.

Carpenteria

Note that Carpenteria should not be confused with the similarly spelled Carpentaria, a genus of palms native to northern Australia.

Fossil wood

This will usually include "xylon" and a term indicating its presumed affinity, such as Araucarioxylon (wood of Araucaria or some related genus), Palmoxylon (wood of an indeterminate palm), or Castanoxylon (wood of an indeterminate chinkapin).

George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens

The gardens also has a large collection of native and introduced tropical plants including cycads, palms, Adansonia, gingers and heliconias.

Hyphaene

Hyphaene is a genus of eight species of palms which includes the Doum palm (H. thebaica).

Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden

Other displays include the Aquatic Garden, Meadowbrook, Demonstration Home Gardens, Garden for All Seasons, Prehistoric and Jungle Garden, Native Oaks, Herb Garden, and the Palm and Bamboo collection.

Manfred Stumpf

In 1987, he dissolved the element of the palm leaf from his icon and transferred it onto wooden objects, covered them with red paint and placed them in his hometown Alsfeld on an acre, near the Autobahn A5 as hieratic signs.

Plain Chachalaca

The Plain Chachalaca feeds in trees or on the ground on fruit (figs, palms, Sapotaceae), seeds, leaves, and flowers.

Rinconsaurus

Besides the plant remains that might have been expected, such as cycads and conifers, discoveries published in 2005 revealed an unexpectedly wide range of monocotyledons, including palms and grasses (Poaceae), including ancestors of rice and bamboo, which has given rise to speculation that herbivorous dinosaurs and grasses co-evolved.

Roy Stone

The palm genus Roystonea is named in memory of the work he did in road building in Puerto Rico during the capture of the island.

Tequesta

The Tequesta gathered many plant foods, including saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) berries, cocoplums (Chrysobalanus icaco), sea grapes (Coccoloba uvifera), prickly pear (nopal) fruits (Opuntia spp.), gopher apples (Licania micbauxii), pigeon plums (Cocoloba diversifolia), palm nuts, false mastic seeds, cabbage palm (Sabal palmetto), and hog plum (Ximenia americana).

Worshipful Company of Loriners

The Loriners' coat of arms is Azure on a Chevron Argent, between three Manage-bits Or, as many Bosses Sable, supported asymmetrically by a single Horse, between Foliage of Palm and of Juniper.


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