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Just a lone date palm. In my opinion this is the most beautiful tree in the Middle East. It needs lots of water but can resist high salinity. This is why many of them grow around the Dead Sea, where this pic was taken.
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Date palms are native and common in almost every wadi in Morocco.
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Wild dates are common the the Saharo-Arabian deserts, they have smaller, edible dates.
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Wild dates are common the the Saharo-Arabian deserts, they have smaller, edible dates.
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This is a germinating date palm seed. Some of such dates were kept for hundreds of years in dry caves and still germinated. This one is new :)
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A wild date palm, the progenitor of the edible dates. The dates ripen in autumn. There are 50% male trees and 50% female trees. Blooming takes place in summer and fruit ripen in autumn. The wild date are about half size of the cultivated ones.
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A wild date palm, the progenitor of the edible dates. The dates ripen in autumn. There are 50% male trees and 50% female trees. Blooming takes place in summer and fruit ripen in autumn. The wild date are about half size of the cultivated ones.
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The date palms are common throughout Israel. they were planted since biblical times. These trees grow near one of the springs inear Bet Shemesh on the western slopes of the Judean Mts. On the right corner of the picture you can see one Canarian date tree a greener and more robust plant.
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Date palms were grown in Israel since beblical times and before. To my opinion thay are moe of the most beautiful trees of the Holy Land. They are native to the region, growing in desert springs and salines. Most of the dates are planted these days, like these ones that are located at the entrance to the Ein Gedi nature reserve on the Dead Sea coast. The palm dates need a lot of water, but can also grow in rather salty water, this is why this tree is an important crop in the drying and salty Middle East.
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these are remnants of ancient groves east of Jericho.
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phoenix dactylifera 1Location: Abu Mina 2005