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Palm Trees
Palm trees grow in tropical or subtropical areas. They have a straight trunk, and fronds instead of branches. Palm trees have existed for over 90 million years.
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Why Date palm is useful to the desert dwellers?
Because it thrives well under conditions of water scarcity and gives us nutritious sweet fruits.
What can you make with palm trees?
- Dates from date palms
- Coconuts from coconut palms
- Palm oil
- Sago heart of palm (food)
- Palm wine
- Sabal palmetto palm trunks were used to build Fort Moultrie, Sullivans Island, South Carolina.
- Coir fiber
- Dragon's blood (resin and dye component
Will palm tree roots damage your pool?
palm tree roots grow mostly downward so they are not likely to damage your pool
Are there palm trees in West Virginia?
Yes, there are several species of palms that will grow in central and eastern Maryland. The hardiest of these is the Needle Palm (Rhapidophyllum hystrix), which grows as a spreading bush-type palm. It will survive all the way into the mountains of Western Maryland. The Dwarf Palmetto (Sabal minor) will survive well into the piedmont, and specimens have been seen as far west as Hagerstown.
The hardiest trunking palm tree is the Windmill Palm (Trachycarpus fortunei). There is a large group of windmill palms behind the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC that have been thriving, unprotected, for many years now. Windmill palms have also been spotted in Baltimore City, Dundalk, Catonsville, Ellicott City, Annapolis, and there is a 20-foot specimen growing on the grounds of the Chesapeake Biological Lab in Solomons, MD. Windmill palms are actually very commonly planted in Ocean City because, unlike the more tropical palms, they do not need to be replaced every spring. The cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto) can also be grown in some parts of Maryland, if it is provided with adequate winter protection for the first few years it is in the ground, and it is sited well (against a building, on the south side, away from harsh winds).
There are several other species of palms that people are experimenting with in Maryland. You will see palms more commonly planted in MD in the future.
What is the royal palm tree habitat?
Ocean, mostly in the depths of it.
It eats fish, oranges and jellyfish
Yes. Palm trees are very flexible trees, since most of the species originated in tropical areas, which are frequented by monsoons, hurricanes and other tropical storms characterized by high velocity winds.
What is the palm tree leaves scientific name?
palm tree leaves are called pinate leaves because they heve diffrent sections and fan out.
How much water does a pineapple palm tree need?
Enough water for the soil to be moist six inches down and out to at least the drip line is how much water that queen palm trees [Syagrus romanzoffiana] need. It's important to water before 10 a.m. or after 5 p.m., which is the range outside of the high evaporative rates possible in the full sun that the plant enjoys.
A watering schedule for a recently planted tree may be two or three times a week, depending upon the dryness or wetness of the climate. It may be every 10-14 days once the tree is established.
A soil check can be done along with a visual check. Just put a soil probe or sharp object such as a strong writing instrument, screwdriver or ruler into the soil. The plant is being overwatered if the object comes out muddy. It's being underwatered if the object comes out clean as a whistle. It's appropriately moist if the object is freckled or speckled by soil particles.
What are coconut palm trees used for?
The leaves are used as walls or separater when weaved (mostly for beach shacks or stands at village festivities, or roof, the center nerve of the leaf is used as tooth pick, as frame for small kites in the carribeans.
The fruit, the coconut is used as beverage when green, the gelly inside is used as desert when thin , thicker than 1/8 it is grated and put in cakes , squeezed to get coconut milk to use as cooking ingredient in food or to make sauce, and when thick and hard it is used as chicken feed or grated and squezed to get coconut oil for cooking or skin oil or hair conditioner.
The top of the tree, about 3 feet down the top, the heart is comestible and used as desert.
The shell of the fruit is used to make artcraft and also as combustible for outdoor fires, BBQ or oven. The hard part of the shell is used to make artcraft and small recipients.
The rest of the tree is used as rollers under the boats by the fishermen to get their boats in and out of the water.
Palm trees grow in mostly tropical areas, for example: The Caribbean, the Southern United States, Hawaii, ect.
How do you grow new palm trees?
You move a palm tree like you move any other tree. You dig around the rootball when the tree is dormant in winter and move it with as much root as possible, Watering during the first year after moving is vital.
Is the ponytail palm tree poisonous to cats?
My cat has been chewing on our ponytail palm during the last year, and now she has been diagnosed with chronic renal failure, even though she is only 7 years old. In searching the internet for My cat has been chewing on our ponytail palm for the last year or so. Now she has been diagnosed with chronic renal failure, even though she's only 7 years old. Two on-line lists say that plant is not toxic (www.scvec.com and www.sniksnak.com), but I am still looking for more information.
England does have palm trees. As does Ireland. For the most part, they are concentrated on the southern coast with its heavy maritime climate influences. A few popular species that grow there include: European Fan Palm Chinese Windmill Palm Chilean Wine Palm
A palm tree that grows to about 10m high?
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Nikau palm tree is another New Zealand native tree which fits your description. Have a look at these websites:
http://www.peersbrownmiller.co.nz/some_native_trees_2/some_native_trees_2.php?mid=258
http://www.conservation.net.nz/upload/documents/getting-involved/students-and-teachers/field-trips-by-region/kapiti-education-kit/Species%20cards/nikau.pdf
http://www.wordworx.co.nz/TitirangiNikau.htm
Is a palm tree a tropical tree?
No.
A palm is a monocot (family monocotyledoneae), which is related to corn, grass, bamboo, agave, irises, yucca, etc.
They do not develop rings year to year, and their stems are dramatically different from tree trunks. They do not add bulk to their trunks year to year at all, and their water transportation system is clusters of phloem and zylem packed in a pithy fibrous sheath.
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Palms are neither a softwood (Gymnosperm) nor a hardwood (Angiosperm).
Palms are members of the Arcaceae family of flowering plants. They have been termed "the princes of the vegetable kingdom."
Of course, due to their enormous size, palms are commonly referred to as 'trees.' If one falls on your car, you're not going to tell the insurance agent that the damage was caused by a flowering plant.
So, while you and I might call them trees, Palms are not scientifically classified as such.
This is similar to asking: Is that animal really a 'dog' or a 'chien' or a 'perro'. It all depends on whether you speak English or French or Spanish. The animal is not really anything all by itself.
Likewise, a palm 'tree' is not really anything, but only what people say it is. The billions of people on the earth today and all who lived before them, have created a word 'tree' which includes palm trees. This is the classic dictionary definition. Although the word is different in each language, the concept, the idea of what a 'tree' is, remains the same.
Perennial woody plants having a main trunk, thick bark and distinct crown are trees. In this definition of trees the palms do not have woody trunk, therefore, these are not trees in strict sense.
In very recent times, a small number of people have been devoting themselves to the study of plants. To help them organize their field, they borrow some of our words and give them new meanings. Within the field of Botany, our word 'tree' is now a technical term which does not include palms. Instead, palms --that don't have wood-- are categorized into the "manicot" class of flowering plants (along with orchids, tulips, onions, sugarcane, bamboo, wheat, and crabgrass).
- So, by botanical definition, a palm tree is not a tree.
- For the billions of non-botanists on the planet, and most of their dictionaries, a palm tree is a tree.
If two different groups use two different definitions, then there are two correct answers. But neither is what it 'really' is because it isn't 'really' anything!
Information which can be found in some relevant books:
According to An encyclopedia of cultivated palms / Robert Lee Riffle and Paul Craft (Portland OR / Cambridge: Timber Press, 2003. ISBN 0881925586) "palms are among the few monocot families with woody tissues". Palms "may be shrublike, treelike or vinelike". "As monocots, palms do not increase their trunk size by growing new wood. Rather, if the trunk enlarges, it does so by expanding the tissues first formed".
Palms are referred to as trees in the following:
Oxford dictionary of plant sciences/ edited by Michael Allaby (Oxford): Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0198608764: page 319)
Plant / Editor-in-chief Janet Marinelli (London: Dorling Kindersley, 2004. ISBN 0751347973: page 356)
The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening / Editor-in-chief Anthony Huxley (London: Macmillan, 1992. ISBN 0333474945: Vol.3, page 443)
