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	PALM - LoveToKnow Article on PALM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is very characteristic of some palms to produce from the base of the stem a series of adventitious roots which gradually thrust themselves into the soil and serve to steady the tree and prevent its overthrow by the wind.
		The branching of the stem above ground is unusual, except in the case of the Doum palm of Egypt (Hyphaene), where the stem forks, often repeatedly; this is due to the development of a branch to an equal strength with the main stem.
		Starch is procured in abundance from the steni of the Sago palm, Metroxylon (fig.
	50.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PA/PALM.htm (2855 words)

	Palm Trees - all about palm trees
		Palm tree stems are not more complicated in structure than those of the common butcher’s broom (Ruscus); their flowers are for the most part as simple as those of a rush (Juncus).
		The leaves of palms are either arranged at more or less distant intervals along the stem, as in the canes, or are approximated in tufts at the end of the stem, I thus forming those noble crowns of foliage which are so closely associated with the general idea of a palm.
		The hard stone of the date is the endosperm, the white oily flesh of the coco-nut is the same substance in a softer condition; the so-called “vegetable ivory” is derived from the endosperm of Phytelephas.
	www.2020site.org /trees/palm-tree.html (1798 words)

	Date cultivation in Dar al-Manasir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Date palm trees and Doum palms (Hyphaene thebaica) are perfectly adapted to the regional climate of Dar al-Manasir.
		Barakawi are not among the most common palm trees in Dar al-Manasir, but their number increases considerably towards the downstream end and in the neighbouring Shaiqiyah Country with a centre of cultivation in the area of Karima.
		Bur palms are among the taller palm trees in Dar al-Manasir.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Date_cultivation_in_Dar_al-Manasir (4034 words)

	Doum palm Definition / Doum palm Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A doum palm (Hyphaene thebaica) is a type of palm treeArecaceae (also known as Palmae or Palmaceae), the palm family, is a family of flowering plants, belonging to the monocot order Arecales.
		The type member of this family is the areca palm, the fruit of which is chewed with the betel leaf and often confused with it.
		Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil produced by the oil palms in th...
	www.elresearch.com /Doum_palm (329 words)

	Multipurpose Palms CHAPTER 4
		The date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, with its strong upright trunk, its long pinnate leaves, and its heavy clusters of fruit is a sure sign of the richness of the desert.
		Date palms require a hot, dry area for producing and maturing their fruits, and while quite adept at retrieving water from the soil, they are always found around oases, streams, wells, or irrigation canals.
		The doum or gingerbread palm, Hyphaene thebaica, is a dioecious, usually branched palm of 2, 4, 8, or 16 heads of fan-shaped leaves.
	www.agroforestry.net /pubs/palmbk/Chapter4.html (1175 words)

	Tropical Palms - Introduction
		Nipa palm (Nypa fruticans) is an example of dichotomous branching; the salak palm (Salacca zalacca) is representative of lateral branching and is similar to the type of branching which takes place in dicots with branches developing from the growth of lateral meristems.
		A subterranean branching palm, the nipa palm (Nypa fruticans).
		Exotic palm species are of course present throughout the tropics, being grown casually as ornamental species or on plantations as in the case of major economic species.
	www.fao.org /docrep/x0451e/X0451e03.htm (3340 words)

	Tropical Palms - African and the western Indian Ocean region
		The palms in Table 7-1 are under threat as a result of destructive exploitation by humans and animals for leaves, fruit, wood or rattan; as well as because of deforestation.
		Doum palms are multipurpose in nature; products include the edible mesocarp of the fruit in most species, leaves for thatch and fiber, wood and palm wine derived from tapping the trunk.
		The palm flora of each island group is unique with exceedingly high rates of palm endemism; in the Seychelles all six of the native palms are endemic.
	www.fao.org /docrep/X0451E/X0451e09.htm (2620 words)

	Homes: O, Christmas palm
		The most popular palm with a festive twist is the Christmas or adonidia palm (Veitchia merrillii), which earns its common name from the clusters of bright red fruits it produces each year around the holiday.
		The biggest drawback to the Christmas palm is its susceptibility to lethal yellowing disease, which wiped out almost all the coconut trees in the Florida Keys and the Miami area by the 1980s and has killed thousands of Canary date palms in Texas.
		Christmas palms are readily available at retail nurseries and garden centers, but finding the old man, teddy bear, gingerbread and candy cane palms may be a challenge.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/12/17/news_pf/Homes/O__Christmas_palm.shtml (698 words)

	Doum palm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The doum palm (Hyphaene thebaica, الدوم in Arabic) is a type of palm tree, also called gingerbread tree, with edible oval fruit, originally native to the Nile valley.
		The doum palm fruit is also known in Eritrea as Akat, or Akaat in the Tigrinya language.
		It was considered sacred by the Ancient Egyptians and the stone was found in many pharaoh's tombs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doum_palm (121 words)

	Chapter 8: Miscellaneous, Article 1
		Everyone who collects palms has certainly had the experience of making a "find" in a nursery, knowing in his or her heart that this is an unusual plant, and asking the nurseryman for an identification, often to be told that the plant is a "Fan palm".
		This category includes those palms which have been in the trade for years, and which are often sold under what appear to be botanically correct names but are not, often, because the names are invalid...
		Palm names in foreign languages are, in the main, not included.
	www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de /b-online/library/palms/vpe_commonnames.htm (1089 words)

	Annie's Gingerbread Page
		Each branch of the doum palm ends in a tuft of deeply lobed, fan-shaped leaves.
		For this reason, the doum palm has often been called the gingerbread tree.
		The doum palm belongs to the palm family, Arecaceae or Palmae.
	www.annieshomepage.com /gingerbread2.html (1604 words)

	Palm Basketry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Due to the prevalent poverty in the area, the weaving of Doum Palm products has come to be treated as an alternative source of their livelihood.
		Due to the harsh climatic condition in the Lodwar District where the Turkan Doum palm leave are sourced, the plant is not thriving as it should along the shores of Lake Turkana.
		Therefore vital as the Doum plant must be to the artisans in this region, its survival is equally a matter of concern.
	www.catgen.com /kenyaonline/EN/100000033.html (362 words)

	University of Florida / Miami-Dade County Extension Programs: Florida Yards and Neighborhoods: Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Medium-sized palm with stout trunk and crown of large, stiff, erect, bluish-green, deeply segmented, fan-shaped leaves.
		Common, native, tall palm with rounded crown of fan-shaped leaves and smooth or rough trunk.
		Tall, clumping palm with characteristic narrow trunks bearing rings of 2-3” yellow-beige spines attached to woven, fabric-like leaf sheathes.
	miami-dade.ifas.ufl.edu /programs/fyn/publications/drought-tolerant-plants/dtpl-palms-g-z.htm (728 words)

	AFRICA - Explore the Regions - Sahara
		A native of Upper Egypt, Sudan, Kenya and Tanzania, the doum palm was considered sacred by ancient Egyptians.
		The doum palm, also known as the gingerbread palm, grows a red-orange, apple-sized fruit that tastes like gingerbread.
		A part of any Saharan oasis, the date palm was cultivated in the Nile Valley thousands of years before the Egyptians developed hieroglyphics.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/africa/explore/sahara/sahara_vegetation.html (291 words)

	Palm, Palmetto - Food Facts & Trivia
		The Cabbage Palmetto (Sabal palmetto) is native to the Southeastern U.S. and the Caribbean.
		Hearts of palm have many layers (similar to leeks), and are a pale ivory color, with a very mild nutty flavor.
		The doum palm is native to the Nile region in Africa.
	www.foodreference.com /html/fpalmpalmetto.html (378 words)

	Saturday Magazine
		A cluster of women sat under the shade of the doum palms on the grounds of the derelict Eliye Springs Lodge.
		The lake, the shoreline, the doum palms, the sky and islands and the dunes.
		The doum palm provided almost everything and a happy mood settled in with the children eating their fill of doum palm fruits in season.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/Supplements/saturday/08112003/travel.htm (1489 words)

	DoumPalm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A usually solitary fan palm with an unbranched, sometimes leaning or curved, stern up to 18m tall.
		The stem base is raised 15 to 30cm on a mass of fibrous roots and the stem usually tapers to a swelling 1 to 2m below the crown and is constricted above.
		The fruits, seedlings and leading shoots are edible and the sap can be drunk as palm wine or distilled to produce a spirit.
	www.portstjohns.com /vicfalls/env/doumpalm.htm (446 words)

	doum palm Landscape with Doum Palm, Sumburu, Kenya
		Multipurpose Palms CHAPTER 4 The vegetative parts of the doum palm, trunk and leaves, are used much as are those of other palms in weaving and construction.
		Annies Gingerbread Page Doum palm, a tree Hyphaene thebaica of the palm family, native to Nile region grows 20 to 30 ft 6 to 9 m usually forked with leaves 25 to 30 in.
		Palm Trees - all about palm trees The branching of the stem above ground is unusual, except in the case of the Doum palm of Egypt Hyphaene, where the stem forks, often repeatedly this is due to
	profunda.blog7.racingnewsblog.com /1143312423.html (1256 words)

	Medemia argun
		Allied to the Doum palm, Hyphaene, and Bismarckia, it is a beautiful and stately, solitary fan palm to about 15m (50ft) tall with a straight, ringed, brown trunk that supports a large, spherical crown of very stiff, strongly costapalmate leaves.
		The Nubian Desert Palm is extremely drought tolerant and will thrive under hot and dry conditions where its growth rate is fairly fast.
		an very easy palm tree.i put mine in a aquarium with an heat source at about 35ºc, whith a good medium (althought they are not picky)wash the seeds and let them in water for one night.
	www.rarepalmseeds.com /pix/MedArg.shtml (1013 words)

	Hyphaene coriacea
		Almost all parts of this very common palm are used for something, and feasability studies have been done on the economics of some aspects of this palm plant.
		This palm is often seen growing near but not on the banks of rivers in knobthorn-marula savanna on basalt.
		Moll reports that his study of lala palm in Tongaland was precipitated by a proposal to harvest the leaves commercially.
	www.plantzafrica.com /planthij/hyphaencor.htm (1573 words)

	Sand Rivers Selous - Tree Checklist
		The large strong leaves are used for building, and all the roofing in the lodge is made from locally collected doum palm leaves.
		The fruits are large and a favourite of elephant, and the flesh covering the nut, although very fibrous, is full of a thick sweet orange juice, which is delicious.
		This palm favours alkaline rich areas with plentiful water, and as a result they are prolific around the hot springs in the hills to the north of the lodge.
	www.digitalfrontier.com /sandrivers/trees (1911 words)

	African Conservation Foundation - Niger- Conservation Projects - Profile on Niger.
		In the Sahel zone, where the doum palm and the cram-cram (Cenchrus biflorus, a prickly grass) appear, the vegetation has a short life cycle and is principally used for grazing.
		In the cultivated zone the vegetation includes acacia trees, doum palms, and palmyra palms, as well as baobabs.
		Wildlife, which has partially disappeared, includes antelope, elephants, and warthogs; giraffes are found in the Zarmaganda and Damergou regions, and hippopotamuses and crocodiles on the banks of the Niger.
	www.africanconservation.org /nigerprofile.html (487 words)

	Saturday Magazine
		With few elephants to keep the doum palm trees in check, the forest has expanded unhindered.
		Every waterway splits into two like the doum palms and dozens of bird species keep us on the alert.
		From the high dune, I have a 360 degree view of uninterrupted horizons of the ocean, the river meeting the ocean, the amazing maze of delta creeks and estuaries lined thick with mangroves and doum palm forests and the peaks of the towering sand dunes lining the ocean front.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/Supplements/saturday/30112002/travel.htm (1534 words)

	Bible Picture Library of PhotoArt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The date palm was an essential article of diet and the palm branches were borne as a sign of rejoicing at festivals.
		4) Doum Palm The tropical doum palm (Hyphaene thebaica) is found in the more tropical areas of south Palestine, like these in the Arava valley north of Eilat.
		The tropical doum palm (Hyphaene thebaica) is found in the more tropical areas of south Palestine, like these in the Arava valley north of Eilat.
	www.cc-art.com /sampler/Photoart/html/plants7.HTM (1063 words)

	doum definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
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		doum (plural doums) or doum palm (plural doum palms) or doom palm (plural doom palms)
		palm tree with oval fruits: an Egyptian palm tree with egg-shaped fruits that have a gingery taste.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861606211/doum.html (79 words)

	et - Printer Friendly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I also would like to indicate that the RPW does not only affect date palms, but affects various ornamental palms and other less commercial date palms.I have personally seen it affectthe Doum Palm (Hyphanea thebacia), Canary Date Palm (Phoenix canariensis) and the “White Stemmed” Royal Palm (Roystonea regia).
		Apparently Dr. Mohammed had not heard before that it affects the Doum Palm and will most probably visit me next Saturday to photograph this new report.
		Doum Palms also have a major commercial role in Egypt and this is another catastrophe.
	www.egypttoday.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ArticleID=6249 (372 words)

	African Safaris & Travel \| Kenyan Safaris \| Tanzania Safaris
		The vegetation comprises predominantly acacia woodland interspersed with bush, grass and scrubland, which is broken here and there by small rugged hills whilst the meandering loops of the river are bordered by a narrow gallery of riverine woodland in which acacia and doum palm flourish.
		This is a dry country ecosystem and is, therefore, prone to large variations in the animal populations as they move in search of water and pasture.
		Samburu is a region of breathtaking and magical beauty, a place where the vision of a deep red sunset silhouetting the doum palms along the river as a leopard emerges to hunt brings the perfect end to a day on safari.
	www.tokenya.com /park.asp?id=8 (683 words)

	KENYA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		One of the main features in the area is the life-giving Uaso Nyiro River, broad and often sluggish with a large population of crocodile, seen frequently at almost every meandering bend.
		Along the river banks clusters of doum palm and riverine forest add shade and contrast to the surrounding countryside and provide a habitat for a variety of many primate species,
		Elephants room the hills which punctuate the scrubland and often seek solace and contentment in the shallow waters of the river and it is nearly a dolly occurrence to find herds drinking and bathing in a spectacle of sheer satisfaction.
	www.kenyaweb.com /bestcampingtours/kenya.html (862 words)

	Dwarf date palm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The dwarf palm's habitat is the high water line of the upper Mekong river.
		Phoenix Palm (Phoenix roebilini) or Dwarf Date Palm has a solid history as a houseplant and amongst the most durable of all palms.
		The Canary Island palm (P. canariensis) is often seen in older gardens in South Africa and the dwarf date palm (P. roebelenii from Laos in the Far East) is...
	8590.4h6u08.info (701 words)

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