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Date palms can take 4 to 8 years after planting before they will bear fruit, and start producing viable yields for commercial harvest between 7 and 10 years. Mature date palms can produce 70–140 kilograms (150–300 pounds) [21] [22] of dates per harvest season. They do not all ripen at the same time so several harvests are required.
Date and Doum palms are not only important because of their edible fruits. The by-products of these trees make up the essential raw material for locally produced tools and handicrafts (cf. Material Culture of the Manasir). In addition, date seeds (Nawa, نوى) and the Dafiq-fruits are used as fodder. They are recommended to improve the taste ...
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.
The valley is the top date-growing region in the country, and last year Riverside County had nearly 10,000 acres (4,046 hectares) of date palms that produced more than 38,000 tons (34,473 metric ...
Phoenix reclinata is a dioecious clumping palm, producing multiple stems from 7.5 to 15 m in height and 30 cm in width. Foliage is pinnate and recurved, growing 2.5 to 4.5 m in length and 0.75 m in width. Leaf color is bright to deep green on 30 cm petioles with long, sharp spines at the base, with 20 to 40 leaves per crown.
Deglet Nour, also spelled Deglet Noor, [a] is a cultivar of the date palm that originated in the oasis of Tolga in Algeria. [1] [2] Commonly referred to as the "queen of all dates", [3] the authentic Algerian [4] Deglet Nour date has a soft touch, a translucent light color and a honey-like taste, characteristics which distinguish it from other ...
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Dateland is a CDP, populated place, and colonia [3] in Yuma County, Arizona, United States.It is in an area well known for date palm dates.. Dateland has the ZIP Code of 85333; in 2000, the population of the 85333 ZCTA was 852.