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Phoenix dactylifera AFRICAN DATE PALM
The African date palm has been in cultivation since the days of antiquity; widely used throughout the world for its medicinal, practical, and culinary properties. Truly a food for the ages it has been used for millennia to nourish African and Middle Eastern societies. For proper fruit production temperatures of 100 degrees or more and low humidity are needed. Its height of 75 feet, long slender light-bluish or silver fronds, shorter and fewer spines, and thinner statute differentiates it from Phoenix canariensis. Presidio Park's two most prominent examples grow along Taylor Street near a monument commemorating Father J. Serra and the date palms he planted near this spot in the late 1700s. These are younger trees meant to replace the old, which died in the 1950s. |
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