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	Introduction to Date Palm
		Date palm, Phoenix dactylifera L., is one of the oldest fruit trees in the
		The number of the date palms is about 100 million worldwide, of which 62 million palms can be found in the Arab world.
		The date palm is a perennial, the females of which normally begin to bear dates within an average five of years from the time of planting of the offshoot.
	www.redpalmweevil.com /introDatepalm.htm (188 words)

	CHAPTER IV: CLIMATIC REQUIREMENTS OF DATE PALM
		Date palm is cultivated in arid and semi-arid regions which are characterised by long and hot summers, no (or at most low) rainfall, and very low relative humidity level during the ripening period.
		Date palm flowering is initiated after a cold period, when the temperature becomes high enough and reaches a level known as the flowering zero (0).
		Date palm culture has mostly been developed in areas with winter rainfall which does not cause harm to the date fruits, but benefits the soils of the plantations by lessivating the deposited surface salt and avoiding the upward movement of salt from lower layers.
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	Date
		This cultivar is the smallest edible date palm grown in the United States and it is fairly tolerant of rain and humidity.
		Dry dates that have become too dehydrated and hardened on the palm are rehydrated by soaking in cold, tepid or hot water, or by exposure to steam or a humid atmosphere.
		Dates held in storage are subject to invasion by the fig-moth, Ephestia cautella, and the Indian meal-moth, Plodia interpunctella.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/morton/Date.html (5321 words)

	Date Palm
		Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is considered the most important fruit crop in the Sultanate of Oman and occupying nearly 50% of the cultivated land in Oman.
		The palm tree provided building materials, thus most of the old houses were built in palm gardens are of palm trunks and mud, and the parts of the tree not having other uses were a major source of fuel for cooking and heat in the winter.
		Currently the date palm trees are estimated to be higher than before due to the introduction of new and easier production practices along with new cultivar which has increased the large scale farming of date palms.
	www.nizwa.net /agr/dates/dates/palm/datepalm1.html (883 words)

	The Blessed Date Palm
		Date palms also served as a means for preserving passages of the Quran.
		The Prophet's mosque in Madinah was originally constructed from the use of the date palm.
		The roof was made of palm fronds woven together and the trunks of palm trees were used to form the pillars of the mosque.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/islam_in_the_us/37036 (572 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Date Palm
		Date seeds are also ground and used in the manner of coffee beans, or as an additive to coffee.
		Date palm wood is used for posts and rafters for huts; it is lighter than coconut and not very durable.
		Date Palms are susceptible to a disease called Bayoud disease which is caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Date_palm (1841 words)

	Egyptian Palm Trees Phoenix Dactylifera, Washingtonix Palm trees, Cocos palm tree, Yucca Tree Date Palm Trees Exporter ...
		Being Egyptian palm tree exporter,Our Mission is to provide Edible Date Palm Phoenix dactylifera
		Palm Trees widely used in street decoration, indoors and outdoors.
		Date Palm Trees Exporter and Egyptian Palm Trees, Supplier and exporter of date palm trees from Egypt at wholesale prices Distributor of the best Date Palm Trees and Tropical Plants Worldwide Egyptian palm trees from egypt at a wholesale price
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	Date Palm Propagation
		The Date palm (Pheonix dactyliphera) in the U.S. occupies an area of approximately 2428 hectares of land in Coachella Valley, southeast California, and 364 hectares in Bard, near Yuma, Arizona.
		Date palms were introduced to the North America during the early 20th century through the efforts of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the University of California, and private citizens.
		Date orchards are planted in rows allowing 30 feet (9 m) between rows and 30 feet (9 m) between palms within the row.
	www.icarda.cgiar.org /APRP/Datepalm/Topics/cropmanagement/date_palm_propagation.htm (3021 words)

	Date Palm Biotechnology at Wye College
		The date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L. 'Nakhla' in arabic) is the "tree of life" and is just one of many examples of a tree crop that can benefit immediately from applications of the recent biotechnologies of plant tissue culture and plant molecular biology.
		The date palm also makes a significant contribution towards the creation of equable microclimates within oasis ecosystems thus enabling agricultural development to be sustained in many drought- and saline-affected regions.
		Date palm trees are essential integral components of farming systems in dry and semi-arid regions and can be produced equally well in small farm units or as larger scale commercial plantation units.
	aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu /tisscult/biotech/datepalm.html (1056 words)

	Date Palm
		Date palm wood is used for posts and rafters for huts; it is lighter than coconut and not very durable.
		Date Palm leaves are used as a lulav in the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
		Date Palms are susceptible to a disease called Bayoud disease which is caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Date_Palm.php (1616 words)

	The date palm tree
		The date palm tree is venerated by the inhabitants of these regions because its utility, does not stop with the production of dates.
		To reproduce a date palm tree such Deglet-Nour, for, it is necessary to cut the rejections (small palm trees which push on the trunk of the mother) of their mother and to replant them elsewhere.
		Spring is the season of the pollination which consists in extracting pollen from the male palm to pose them on the modes of the palm females.
	www.nachoua.com /English/palmeng.htm (740 words)

	Date palm products. Introduction.
		But references to date palms have also been found in Ancient Egypt, and there seems to be a consensus that the earliest form of date palm cultivation coincided with the oldest civilizations and originated in North-East Africa, stretching north east into the delta of the Euphrates and Tigris.
		The often referred to statement that the date palm likes its "feet in Heaven and its head in Hell", alluding to the fact that the date palm requires an abundant water supply and high temperatures, is indicative of the basic growth requirements of the palm.
		The date palm (Phoenix Dactylifera) is a monocotyledon of the family of the Palmae, one of the genera of which are the Coryphoideae, of which one species is Phoenix Dactylifera.
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	Date Palm in the GCC countries o
		Date fruit is marketed all over the world as a high value confectionery and as a fresh fruit it remains an important subsistence crop in most of the desert areas.
		The Jewish consider the date as one of the seven holly seeds (the others being, barely, wheat, lentil, beans, garlic and onion) while in Islam, date palm is mentioned in 20 versus out of 114.
		Under these situations the date palm is described as having its feet in the running water and its head in the fire of the sky.
	www.icarda.org /APRP/Datepalm/introduction/intro-body.htm (2208 words)

	The FOOD Museum :The Date Palm
		No wonder that the date palm, symbolizing peace, justice and supply, was pictured in the earliest sculptures deemed sacred to the Sumerians, as well as to the Babylonians and Assyrians who followed them.
		Later the date palm was important to three of the world's major religious groups, the Jews, the Muslims and the Christians.
		Dates are grown similarly in many places, but the best example of an organic method of growing the date palm comes from 0man, where the palm makes possible what we call three-tiered agriculture.
	www.foodmuseum.com /datepalm.html (1196 words)

	The Date, Phoenix dactylifera
		Date palms begin to bear fruit at 3 to 5 years, and are fully mature at 12 years.
		The date palm is often the only available staple food for the inhabitants of desert and arid lands, and as such it is vital to millions throughout North Africa and the Middle East.
		The date palm is also highly prized as an ornamental tree, as it is ideally situated in streets, avenues and driveways.
	www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu /gepts/pb143/CROP/Date/Date.htm (1091 words)

	Date Palm Pollination
		The long history of date palm cultivation in Oman is closely linked to the indigenous farming methods rooted in traditional wisdom.
		The natural, wind-aided pollination of date palms is a big constraint due to the requirement of equal proportion of male and female trees in a field.
		Date palms grown in sandy or poor soil start giving fruit before the ones grown on rich soil, because the latter's priority is to accumulate leaves and then bear fruit.
	www.nizwa.net /agr/dates/datefarm/datefarm.html (983 words)

	The Cherished Date Palm, Winter 1997,Volume13, Number 4
		The Date Palm Center is a member of the Arab National Committee for Date Palms, which is part of the Arab Union for Food Industry, a section of the Arab League.
		The date palm begins producing fruit when it is about seven years old and sustains abundant yields on average for 75 years, although the tree itself may live to be 150 years old.
		While different varieties of dates vary somewhat in their growing seasons, the primary date season in Saudi Arabia runs from March, when the green buds first appear, to the middle of October, when the mature fruits are ready for harvesting.
	www.saudiembassy.net /Publications/MagWinter97/date-palm.htm (1763 words)

	Cretan date palm - Phoenix theophrasti: More Information - ARKive
		Native to the eastern Mediterranean, the Cretan date palm is one of only two palm species endemic to Europe (3).
		The Cretan date palm is dioecious (2) (5), with male and female flowers on separate plants, and pollination is by wind (6).
		The Cretan date palm is threatened by growing tourism development and ambitious tourism plans in both Crete and Turkey, which may require large areas of vegetation to be cleared (8) (9).
	www.arkive.org /species/GES/plants_and_algae/Phoenix_theophrasti/more_info.html (386 words)

	Christmas Baking May Furnish Date Palm
		Date palms are placed within the genus Phoenix, although their association with this ancient mythical bird of Egypt is unclear.
		The miniature date palm (P. roebelenii), seldom exceeds 2 meters outdoors in the tropics, and 1 meter in the house.
		Date palms will indicate the need for a larger pot by forming a net of fine roots along the surface of the growing medium.
	gardenline.usask.ca /plants/datepalm.html (869 words)

	Date Palm (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Altough consuption of dates varied fron country to country,season to season and variety to variety, the rati between the nutrients remain pretty constant.The approximate value of diffrent components of the fully mattured wholesome dry dates without kernel are given the table below.
		Dates rich in antioxidants lower the risk of a variety of cancers,specially pancreatic cancer.The exact mechanism for preventing the ferocious rate of pancreas is stil unkown.
		Dates being a rich source of dietry fibres,act as effective laxative to facilitate bowel movements, increase volume of stool and control constipation.The fibirous nature of dates helps in the absorption of water in undigested food and makes the lubricating process easier.
	www.telmedpak.com /agricultures.asp?a=agriculture&b=date_palm (848 words)

	Natural History of the Date Palm Phoenix dactylifera (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Sumerian words for date (zulum) and date palm (gishimmar) belonged to a group of words considered by Sumerologist Benno Landsberger to be non Sumerian loan words from a hypothetical pre- Sumerian language associated with a pre Sumerian aboriginal population.
		According to Islamic tradition, a Date tree was said to be the ‘Tree of Life’ in the Garden of Eden and to have sheltered (in another place) and provided a rich food source for Mary when she was pregnant with the Prophet Jesus.
		Dried Dates are one of the few food sources which is self preserving (because of its high sugar content), is light to carry, especially in view of the small quantity needed for daily consumption, and is pleasant to eat.
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	Date Sex @ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Male and female flowers of the date palm grow on different trees, and since the male flowers are needed to pollinate the female flowers, groves of palm trees have both male and female trees.
		An acre of cultivated date trees averages one male palm to a harem of 49 female palms.
		Date pits were found in the Royal Cemetery itself, and plant remains from other Mesopotamian sites include date pits as well as wood of the palm.
	www.museum.upenn.edu /new/research/Exp_Rese_Disc/NearEast/datesex.shtml (710 words)

	BBP Laboratory. Date palm culture
		Five clones of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) corresponding to three reputed Moroccan cultivars (BFG, JHL and BSK) and two selected seedling genotypes (S16 and S35), derived from in vitro culture, were acclimatized and planted in Errachidia soil (South Morocco) in 1989.
		Date palm cultivar composition of Moroccan palm groves as revealed by leaf isoenzyme phenotypes.
		Date palm populations of Zagora, M'hamid and Rissani, eachrepresented a unique type, were characterized by cultivars Bou-Sthammi Noire, Bou-Skri (and Iklane) and Bou-Feggouss, respectively.
	baplaboratory.maroc.to /palm1.html (1185 words)

	THE DATE PALM: Phoenix dactylifera (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Phoenix dactylifera L. This palm, well known since ancient times, was regarded by the Egyptians as being a fertility symbol, it was represented on coins and monuments by the Carthaginians and used as an ornament in triumph pageants by the Greeks and Romans.
		Its leaves, clustered together in a maximum number of 20-30 and forming a loose crownshaft, are pinnate, up to 6 m long, upper leaves are ascending, basal leaves are recurved, the segments are coriaceous, linear, rigid and sharp pointed, blue-green in colour.
		These fruits, commonly known as dates, are oblong berries, dark-orange when ripe, up to 50 cm long in the cultivated varieties, their flesh is sacchariferous, it contains one woody seed.
	www.dipbot.unict.it /Palms/descr02.html (377 words)

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