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nature's exclamation mark for vacation, planted by ocean currents and human longing alike.
means a family of mostly tropical, unbranched trees topped with a crown of huge fan or feather shaped leaves.
from from latin palma, because early botanists thought the frond looked like an open palm and fingers.
not woodtrunk is bundled fiber, botanically closer to grass
family sizeover 2,600 species worldwide
floating seedscoconuts can drift oceans and still sprout
no ringspalms cannot be aged by counting growth rings
for instance
coconut palm — colonizes beaches worldwide by floating its own seed
date palm — cultivated in mesopotamia over 6,000 years ago
washingtonia robusta — lines los angeles streets, planted for the 1932 olympics
raffia palm — grows the longest leaves of any plant, over 25 meters