_{Palma Datilera.}

Phoenix Dactylifera, with a common name palm (or date palm), common palm, phoenix or tamara, is a palm whose edible fruit is the Date, probably originally from Southwest Asia.

It is a dioecious palm with a single trunk, often with buds at its base, up to 30 m high and 20 to 50 cm in diameter, covered with the remains of old leaves.

Pinnate, spiny leaves, 1.5 to 5 m long, with 10-80 cm long leaflets, of a glaucous color.

Very branched erect inflorescences emerging from brown bivalve spathes between the leaves, the females becoming pendulous at fruiting.

Bractted flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals, the masculine ones are cream-colored and with 6 stamens, and the feminine yellowish-green with tricarpelar gynoecium with outwardly twisted stigmas.

The fruits, which are berries with the appearance of drupes, are oblong-ovoid, 3 to 9 cm long, orange in color, with smooth exocarp, fleshy mesocarp and membranous endocarp, turning red-brown when ripe.

The seeds are rough, sub-cylindrical ellipsoidal, 2-3 cm by 0.5-1 cm, with a lateral groove in the stony episperm that encloses a homogeneous non-ruminate endosperm.

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Location	Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela
Photography	@skinnygirl
Date	December 20, 2021

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