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date palms
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date palms

Phoenix

Phoenix is a genus of 14 species of palms, native to an area starting from the Canary Islands in the west, across northern and central Africa, to the extreme southeast of Europe (Crete), and continuing throughout southern Asia from Turkey east to southern China and Malaysia. The diverse habitats they occupy include swamps, deserts, and mangrove sea coasts. Most Phoenix species originate in semiarid regions, but usually occur near high groundwater levels, rivers, or springs. The...

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15 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Canary Island palm

speciesPhoenix canariensis

Pygmy Date Palm

speciesPhoenix roebelenii

Date Palm

speciesPhoenix dactylifera

Reclining Date Palm

speciesPhoenix reclinata

Spiny Date Palm

speciesPhoenix loureiroi

sugar date palm

speciesPhoenix sylvestris

Theophrastus' Date Palm

speciesPhoenix theophrasti

Ceylon Date Palm

speciesPhoenix pusilla

Cliff date palm

speciesPhoenix rupicola

mangrove date palm

speciesPhoenix paludosa

Date Palm Hybrid

hybridPhoenix canariensis × reclinata

dwarf date palm

speciesPhoenix acaulis

Cape Verde Island date palm

speciesPhoenix atlantica

Phoenix × intermedia

hybridPhoenix × intermedia

Phoenix caespitosa

speciesPhoenix caespitosa

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

date palms in Mirror of Wisdom

Mirror of Wisdom

Cyrillus, Pseudo- · 1490 · p.193

date palms in Illustrations of Auspicious Omens

Illustrations of Auspicious Omens

900 · p.13

date palms in Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 27)

Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 27)

吳其濬 · 1848 · p.84

date palms in Description of China, Korea, and Tibet

Description of China, Korea, and Tibet

Du Halde · 1738 · p.183

date palms in Hug. Grotii poemata omnia

Hug. Grotii poemata omnia

Grotius, Hugo · n.d. · p.8

date palms in Kircher: China Illustrata (1667)

Kircher: China Illustrata (1667)

Athanasius Kircher · 1667 · p.266

date palms in Ortus sanitatis

Ortus sanitatis

1491 · p.633

date palms in Garden of Health

Garden of Health

1507 · p.515

date palms in Louis Renard — Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes (1754)

Louis Renard — Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes (1754)

Louis Renard · 1754 · p.63

date palms in Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides

Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides

Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.672

date palms in Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter

Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter

Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.617

date palms in A New Herbal, or History of Plants

A New Herbal, or History of Plants

Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.529

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 72295.