Ramos Sunday is April 13 and Las Palmas have a long leg or a sunny California. There are many different types of palms around California, but there is only one native of the area.
A tree or not a tree, that’s the question
The palm is not really a tree. They are Arecaceae, which is a family of pear tenial flowering plants in the Monocotal Arecales order. Its form of growth can be climbers, shrubs, plants such as trees and without stem, all commonly known as palms. Those who have a tree shape are called palm trees. Currently, 181 genera are known with around 2,600 species, most of which are restricted to tropical and subtropical climates.
Compared between palm trees and hard trees
Conerns comparison only generalizations.
Palmas (Monocotal)
– Long narrow leaf, vegetable leaf venation (parallel)
– Adventitious roots (early development of roots derived from the session to compensate for the limited capacity of the roots to grow enough due to the lack of Cambium)
– Scattered vascular gorios, without a lateral meristem (Cambium)
– No secondary growth
Hard wooden trees (deciduous) (dichotas)
– Wide -blade read, fixed Venation Pinada
– Secondary growth in the root system (and, therefore, highly developed)
– Vascular bundles in a ring, lateral meristem (Cambium)
– Secondary growth
California native
Only one species: Washingtonia Filifera, the Palma of California fans is a native of California. All other species of Palma in southern California, that line has imported so many boulevards.
In all of North America there are only 14 types of palm trees that are native.
The Franciscan missionaries were the first to plant adorned palms, but landscaping in the 1930s was when the real madness for Las Palmas arrived in California. In 1931, the Los Angeles forest division planted more than 25,000 palm trees around the city. The most common was the robust Washingtonia, or the palm of Mexican fans.
Many of the original palms planted in the 1930s are still close. A fan palm can grow at 100 feet and live for hundreds of years.
In many areas of southern California, non -native palm trees are considered invasive and eliminated to restore native habitat. Since they require a lot of water, many cities do not replace them when they are.
The Weevil of the Red Palma threatens many trees in southern California. A 2022 BBC report said that only about 50% of all palms in the world are threatened with extinction.
Totally ‘nuts’
Every year there are 10 deaths attributable to shark attacks compared to 150 deaths worldwide (based on a press release of the British travel insurance in 2002) caused by the fall of coconuts.
Indonesia is the main coconut producer in the world in 2023, with approximately 17.97 million metric tons of coconuts. That year, the Philippines was the second largest coconut producer in the world, which represents around 14.89 million metric tons of global production volume.
A palm is not necessarily a tree and a coconut is not necessarily a utility. Botanically, fruit is a drip, not a utility.
Use or palm trees
The palm tree has been cultivated by humans for almost 5,000 years. This was in the Middle East with the Palma Date (Phoenix Dactylifera) but soon expanded to other regions with other species of palm.
For consumption, fruits such as Awarra, Coconut, Moriche, Palm Peach and Salak.
Palm oil is widely used for food, soap and fuel preparation.
Wickerwork is made of Rattan or Calamus Rotang.
Coconut mats are made of coconut fibers.
In Hindu culture, comics or palm leaf were used as paper.
X marks the place
The founder of In-N-Out, Harry Snyder, loved the film “is a crazy, crazy and crazy world” from the early 1960s. The 1963 film Conerns to a group of motorists in a crazy race to a state park in California, where they believe that a secret cash stash is waiting for them under a “great W”. The Big W turned out to be molded by the palm trees. Snyder liked the idea that palm trees is planting outside its restaurants in 1972, in the form of X-Tead of a W-to mark the place of its own symbolic, “according to an official online story of In-N-Out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNNKCDH5V14
State tree? Or State Monocotal?
Monocotyledas are a type of flowering plant that first evolved about 100 to 120 million years ago. (Sabal Palms, in particular, evolved about 85 million years ago, making them one of the oldest palm species that exist).
Sabal Palms and Sabal Palmettos are widely distributed through the southeast states. Sabal Palms was chosen as the official state tree by the Florida Legislature in 1953. Sabal Palmetto is also the state tree for South Carolina and appears on its flag and stamp.
Sources: PBS, BBC, Nature and Nature and Ecology, In-N-Out, University of Florida, Mutart Conservatory, Florida State Department