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In Judaism, the palm represents peace and plenty, and is one of the Four Species of Sukkot; the palm may also symbolize the Tree of Life in Kabbalah. The canopies of the Rathayatra carts which carry the deities of Krishna and his family members in the cart festival of Jagganath Puri in India are marked with the emblem of a palm tree.
Saribus rotundifolius is a hermaphrodite fan palm. [2] The palm is evergreen, erect, and only grows having a single trunk ('solitary').It grows at a height ranging from 15 to 25 metres, [11] exceptionally up to 45 metres tall, [2] and thickness of 15 to 25 cm diameter at breast height.
Adonidia merrillii, the Manila palm, is a palm tree species native to the Philippines (Palawan and Danjugan Island). [1] This palm was cultivated for centuries in East Asia before becoming a staple in the West. It is reportedly naturalized in the West Indies and Florida. [3]
The palm was a symbol of Phoenicia and appeared on Punic coins. In ancient Greek, the word for palm, phoinix, was thought to be related to the ethnonym. In Archaic Greece, the palm tree was a sacred sign of Apollo, who had been born under a palm on the island of Delos. [8] The palm thus became an icon of the Delian League.
Bismarckia is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the palm family with Bismarckia nobilis being the only species in the genus and is endemic to western and northern Madagascar, where it grows in open grassland. [3] [4] [5] Bismarckia nobilis is widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. [6]
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Chamaedorea elegans, the neanthe bella palm or parlour palm, is a species of small palm tree native to the rainforests in Southern Mexico and Guatemala. [8] The parlor palm is one of the most extensively sold houseplant palms in the world. It is one of several species with leaves that are harvested as xate.