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Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the date palm, [ 2] is a flowering-plant species in the palm family, Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit called dates. The species is widely cultivated across northern Africa, the Middle East, the Horn of Africa, Australia, South Asia, and California. [ 3]
Borassus flabellifer is a robust tree and can reach a height of 30 metres (98 ft). The trunk is grey, robust, and ringed with leaf scars; old leaves remain attached to the trunk for several years before falling cleanly. The leaves are fan-shaped, and 3 m (9.8 ft) long, with robust black teeth on the petiole margins.
Description. Phoenix sylvestris ranges from 4 to 15 m in height and 40 cm in diameter; not as large as the Canary Island Date Palm, but nearly so, and resembling it. The leaves are 3 m long, gently recurved, on 1 m petioles with acanthophylls near the base. The leaf crown grows to 10 m wide and 7.5 to 10 m tall containing up to 100 leaves.
Phoenix roebelenii is a small to medium-sized, slow-growing slender tree growing to 2–7 metres (6.6–23.0 ft) tall. The leaves are 60–120 cm (24–47 in) long, pinnate, with around 100 leaflets arranged in a single plane (unlike the related P. loureiroi where the leaflets are in two planes). Each leaflet is 15–25 cm (6–10 in) long and ...
A pitaya ( / pɪˈtaɪ.ə /) or pitahaya ( / ˌpɪtəˈhaɪ.ə /) is the fruit of several different cactus species indigenous to the region of southern Mexico and along the Pacific coasts of Guatemala, Costa Rica, and El Salvador. [ 1][ 2] Pitaya is cultivated in East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the United States, the Caribbean, Australia ...
Species: S. monosperma. Binomial name. Sterculia monosperma. Vent. Synonyms. Sterculia nobilis ( Salisb.) Sm. Sterculia monosperma, also known as Chinese chestnut, Thai chestnut, seven sisters' fruit, [1] and phoenix eye fruit, [2] is a deciduous tropical nut -bearing tree of genus Sterculia .
Phoenix fruit develops from one carpel as a berry, 1–7 cm long, yellow to red-brown or dark purple when mature, with one elongated, deeply grooved seed . General view of the shape of a Phoenix leaf. Phoenix foliage showing V-shaped leaflets. Metamorphosed leaflets into spines, common to Phoenix.
The phoenix is an immortal bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again. While it is part of Greek mythology, it has analogs in many cultures, such as Egyptian and Persian. Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by rising from the ashes of its predecessor. Some legends say it dies in a show of flames and combustion ...