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Chamaerops humilis, the European Fan Palm, is the sole species in the genus Chamaerops in the palm family Arecaceae. It is native to the western Mediterranean region, in southwestern Europe (Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Malta) and northwest Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia). Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 424 KB) Species Chamaerops humilis Familia Arecaceae Taken by Carsten Niehaus. ...
Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ...
Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern...
Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ...
Orders Base Monocots: Acorus Alismatales Asparagales Dioscoreales Liliales Pandanales Family Petrosaviaceae Commelinids: Arecales Commelinales Poales Zingiberales Family Dasypogonaceae Monocotyledons or monocots are a group of flowering plants usually ranked as a class and once called the Monocotyledoneae. ...
Family Arecaceae Arecales is the botanical order which includes only the palm family, Arecaceae. ...
Genera Many; see list of Arecaceae genera Arecaceae (also known as Palmae), the Palm Family, is a family of flowering plants, belonging to the monocot order, Arecales. ...
Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné ▶(?), and in English usually under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ...
In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ...
Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné ▶(?), and in English usually under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ...
Genera Many; see list of Arecaceae genera Arecaceae (also known as Palmae), the Palm Family, is a family of flowering plants, belonging to the monocot order, Arecales. ...
The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ...
A satellite composite image of Europe // Etymology Picture of Europa, carried away by bull-shaped Zeus. ...
// Etymology World map showing Africa (geographically) The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra — land of the Afri (plural, or Afer singular) — for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage, corresponding to modern-day...
It is a shrublike clumping palm, with several stems growing from a single base. The stems grow slowly and often tightly together, eventually reaching 2-5 m tall with a trunk diameter of 20-25 cm. It is a fan palm (Arecaceae tribe Corypheae), with the leaves with a long petiole terminating in a rounded fan of 10-20 leaflets; each leaf is up to 1-1.5 m long, with the leaflets 50-80 cm long. This is a list of all the genera in the botanical family Arecaceae, the palm tree family, arranged by tribes within the family. ...
In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ...
The flowers are borne in dense, short clusters at the top of the stems; it is usually (but not invariably) dioecious with male and female flowers on separate plants. The fruit is a brown drupe 1-2 cm long. It also has numerous sharp needle-like spines produced on the leaf stems; these protect the stem growing point from browsing animals. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1704x2272, 1650 KB) Català Chamaerops humilis. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1704x2272, 1650 KB) Català Chamaerops humilis. ...
Barcelona within Barcelonès Population (2003) 1,582,738 Area 100. ...
Clivia miniata bears bright orange flowers. ...
Plant sexuality deals with the wide variety of sexual reproduction systems found across the plant kingdom. ...
Fruit stall in Barcelona, Catalonia. ...
The peach is a typical drupe (stone fruit) Raspberries and Yellowjacket In botany, a drupe is a type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp or skin and mesocarp or flesh) surrounds a shell (the pit or stone) of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. ...
It is closely related to the genus Trachycarpus from Asia, differing in clumping habit (Trachycarpus only forms single stems without basal suckers), the spiny leaf stems (spineless in Trachycarpus), and in small details of the flower anatomy. Species T. fortunei (?) Trachycarpus is a genus of six to eight species of palms native to Asia, from the Himalaya east to eastern China. ...
World map showing Asia. ...
It is one of the hardier palms, tolerating winter frosts down to about −12°C, though it does require hot summers for good growth. It is often grown as an ornamental plant in southern Europe. Dwarf Palmetto Sabal minor in snow, Congaree National Park, South Carolina. ...
An ornamental is a plant variety that is grown for its beauty (in its end use), rather than commercial or other value. ...
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