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Date Palm facts for kids
| Date Palm | |
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| Phoenix dactylifera | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Magnoliophyta |
| Class: | Liliopsida |
| Order: | Arecales |
| Family: | Arecaceae |
| Genus: | Phoenix |
| Species: | P. dactylifera |
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| Phoenix dactylifera L. |
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Date seller in the old souq in Kuwait City
The Date Palm is a tree. It has been cultivated for a very long time because of its edible fruit. This fruit is called date. The tree is between 15m and 25m high. It has long leaves that look like feathers. Such leaves are called pinnate. The leaves can grow to 3–5 metres in length. The leaves have visible spines. There are about 150 leaflets. Each leaflet can be up to 30 cm in length and 2 cm in breadth. The full span of the crown of the tree is 6 to 10 metres.
The tree has one or more trunks, that all come from a single system of roots.
Production
World production of dates was approximately 6.7 Mio tonnes in 2004 (FAO statistics). The major producers are:
- Egypt: 1,100,000 t (16.2% of world production)
- Iran: 880,000 t (13.0%)
- Saudi Arabia: 830,000 t (12.3%)
- United Arab Emirates: 760,000 t (11.2%)
- India: 710,000 t (10.6%)
- Pakistan: 650,000 t (9.6%)
- Algeria: 450,000 t (6.6%)
- Sudan: 330,000 t
- Oman: 240,000 t
- Libya: 140,000 t
- Others: 1,140,000 t
- Iraq used to be a major producer of dates but in recent years production and exports have fallen considerably.
The First International Date Conference was held in Tripoli in 1959. In that conference, it was decided to develop a special program under the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to promote the commercial use of substandard or physically defective dates.
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Images for kids
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Dried date, peach, apricot, and probably almond. From Lahun, Fayum, Egypt. Late Middle Kingdom. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London
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Dates
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Young date palm
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Date Palm, Kalka, Haryana, India
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Dates in the souq in Sayada
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Date farm in Medina.
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Date output in 2012
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Sweet sap tapped from date palm in West Bengal, India
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Worldwide date yield
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Fresh dates, clockwise from top right: crunchy, crunchy opened, soft out of skin, soft.
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Date palm orchard, Boumalne, Morocco
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Khadrawi date
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Medjool date
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Date Palm stump showing the wood structure
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Sukkary
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Ammari
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Angou
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Arichti
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Bejjou
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Bisr Helou
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Gounda
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Gousbi
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Branch of Hamraya dates
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Hissa
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Hissa
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Kenta
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Kentichi
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Lagou
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Touzerzayet from Tunisia
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Trounja
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Date palm with fruits at the Abdul Aziz Date Farm in Medina.
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Ripe and dry dates fruit bunches at the Khurram Abdullah Bajwa Date Farm in Medina.
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Dates growing in Yuma, Arizona
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Palm Tree Boulevards in Rishon LeZion