Interesting. I just read recently that palm trees aren’t trees. They are actually a grass. They don’t have a root system like trees do, just a big root ball.
Of course if I am mistaken, a freeper will be here to correct me in a few seconds.
Are date palms some kind of Vulcan courting ritual?
THey have barely any root system at all. When I lived in TX, my neighbor planted a pair of them in front of his house that were over 20 feet tall. They had to be held in place with a pyramid of 2 x 4s for about 5 years. (The whole neighborhood just about stopped talking to this neighbor because they looked so ugly.) Then one day, a truck pulled up and yanked them out. They were nearly 30 feet tall by then. My neighbor sai that he'd sold them. But I lived in fear the whole time that they were there every time hurrican season came around. I was sure that one of them would be driven right through my living room window. LOL
“Interesting. I just read recently that palm trees aren’t trees. They are actually a grass. They don’t have a root system like trees do, just a big root ball.”
“Of course if I am mistaken, a freeper will be here to correct me in a few seconds.
It took longer than a few seconds. The Judean date palm is a Phoenix dactylifera. The Genus is Phoenix, and the Species is dactylifera. The cultivar in this case is Methuselah, a male plant. Phoenix dactylifera is not a true grass, but the true grasses are related in certain important respects at the level of their common relationship among the Monocots.
A comparison of the true grasses to Methuselah might look something like this:
Kingdom: Plantae; Angiosperms; Monocots/Monocotyledon; Family: Poaceae (Gramineae)
Kingdom: Plantae; Angiosperms; Monocots/Monocotyledon; Family: Arecacea/Palmae (palm Family); Genus: Phoenix; Species: dactylifera; Cultivar: Methusaleh
That’s a big fate true if I recall