Washingtonia robusta (Cultivated- USA)


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Washingtonia robusta
(Mexican Fan Palm or Mexican Washingtonia) is a palm tree native to western Sonora and Baja California in northwestern Mexico. It is reportedly naturalized in Spain, the Canary Islands, Réunion, New Zealand, Hawaii, Florida and California.[3] 
Washingtonia robusta grows to 25 m (82 ft) tall, rarely up to 30 m (98 ft). The leaves have a petiole up to 1 m (3.3 ft) long, and a palmate fan of leaflets up to 1 m long. The inflorescence is up to 3 m (9.8 ft) long, with numerous small pale orange-pink flowers. The fruit is a spherical, blue-black drupe, 6–8 mm (0.24–0.31 in) diameter; it is edible, though thin-fleshed.[citation needed] 
(From Wikipedia on 20.8.14)

 
 
Washingtonia robusta H. Wendland, Garten-Zeitum (Berlin). 2: 198. 1883.
Maxican Fan Palm
Photographed from Sunnyvale, California
 
Most likely Washingtonia robusta
 
 
 
 
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