Definition of date palm Date palm
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What does date palm mean?
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| date palm - tall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweet edible fruit | ||
| Phoenix dactylifera | ||
| feather palm palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves | ||
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date palm
A medium-sized palm tree, 15–25 m tall, in the genus Phoenix, extensively cultivated for its edible sweet fruit.
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The Date Palm is a palm. It has been cultivated for a very long time because of its edible fruit. This fruit is called "date". The tree is between 15m and 25m high. It has long leaves that look like feathers. Such leaves are called pinnate. The leaves can grow to 3-5 metres in length. The leaves have visible spines. There are about 150 leaflets. Each leaflet can be up to 30 cm in length and 2cm in breadth. The full span of the crown of the tree is 6 to 10 metres.
The tree has one or more trunks, that all come from a single system of roots.
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The First International Date Conference was held in Tripoli, Libya in 1959. In that conference, it was decided to develop a special program under the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to promote the commercial use of substandard or physically defective dates.
