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unusual facts about palm tree



Colón, Entre Ríos

In the Colón area (about 60 km from the city) lies the El Palmar National Park, a large reserve of Yatay palm trees (Syagrus yatay), informally known as Palmar de Colón.

Heart of palm

Heart of palm, also called palm heart, chonta, palm cabbage or swamp cabbage, is a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees (notably the coconut (Cocos nucifera), Palmito Juçara (Euterpe edulis), Açaí palm (Euterpe oleracea), sabal (Sabal spp.) and pejibaye (Bactris gasipaes) palms).

Huntington Desert Garden

The Huntington's Beaucarnea, Ponytail "Palms", members of the agave family (not true palms), are some of the oldest specimens in cultivation, and among the earliest plantings in the Desert Garden.

La Alameda Park, Quito

The park keeps inside trees that have stood the time, we can find palm trees, acacias, redwoods, toct, cedar and ash.

Martua Sitorus

Martua along with Kuok Khoon Hong, the nephew of Malaysia's richest tycoon Robert Kuok, founded Wilmar International Limited and by 1991 he owned 7.100 hectare of palm tree plantations, and also build his own palm oil refinery in North Sumatera.

Parliament House, Singapore

The main entrance from North Bridge Road is preceded by a grand ceremonial driveway flanked by palm trees, an iconic tree peculiar to the tropical region and complemented by fountain pools.

Polynesian rat

This rat also may have played a role in the complete deforestation of Easter Island by eating the nuts of the local palm tree, thus preventing regrowth of the forest.

Staatliche Baderverwaltung Badenweiler

Today the garden contains extensive plantings of exotic trees, including mature sequoias, cedars, palm trees, eucalyptus, bananas, lemons, oleanders, hibiscus, and magnolias, as well as fine specimens of Prunus, Quercus, Rosa, Sorbus and Viburnum species and varietals.

Tropical Parula

There its habitat is a patchy mix containing primary forest (e.g. high Iriartea deltoidea palm woods), wet premontane secondary forest dominated e.g. by Elaeagia (Rubiaceae) and with abundant epiphytes and hemiepiphytes such as Clusiaceae, former clearings overgrown with shrubs, and fresh forest edges.


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American Colony Hotel

In 1995, Peter Ustinov visited the hotel and planted a palm tree in the courtyard.

Barbados Cricket Buckle

To his left a wattle and daub slave hut can be seen and to the right a cane crushing windmill by an Roystonea oleracea cabbage palm tree.

E. edulis

Euterpe edulis, the juçara, açaí-do-sul or palmiteiro, a palm tree species

Gilboa Fossil Forest

William Stein, associate professor of biological sciences at Binghamton University and colleagues at the New York State Museum in Albany, NY and Cardiff University in the United Kingdom have found an intact tree more than 26 feet tall with a system of frond-like, but leafless branches resulting in a superficially tree fern or palm tree-like form.

Khun Tan District

Roughly translated, "Khun Tan" means "Mountain of Palm Trees", "Khun" (ขุน) referring to a mountain range, and "Tan" (ตาล) referring to Borassus flabellifer, a certain kind of palm tree.

Kudappanakunnu

The name Kudappanakunnu comes from three words "Kuda", "Pana" and "Kunnu" meaning a hilly area occupied by Kudapanas, a variety of palm tree.

Palm Tree Mosque

Palm Tree Mosque, or the Church of Jan van Bougies is a former residence and current mosque in Long Street, Cape Town, South Africa.

S. mexicana

Sabal mexicana, the Mexican palmetto, Texas palmetto, Texas sabal Palm, Rio Grande palmetto or palma de Mícharos, a palm tree species native to North America

St John the Evangelist's Church, Newton Arlosh

Also by her is the lectern with a base of bog oak, and another base in the form of a palm tree that was intended to form part of the pulpit.

Talking tree

The weeping Date palm tree: The Prophet Muhammad, when delivering his sermons used to stand by or lean on a date palm tree.