? Doum palm
Doum Palm in Northern Sudan
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Arecales Family: Arecaceae Genus: Hyphaene Species: H. thebaica
Binomial name
Hyphaene thebaica (L.) Mart.

The doum palm (Hyphaene thebaica, الدوم in Arabic) is a type of palm tree, also called gingerbread tree, with edible oval fruit, originally native to the Nile valley. It is a member of the family Arecaceae. Its fibre and leaflets are used by people along the Nile to weave baskets (e.g. Material Culture of the Manasir). Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1067x1600, 408 KB) Doum Palm (Dum Palm) on Us Island in Dar al-Manasir, Northern Sudan (c) GFDL David Haberlah (Homepage of David Haberlah, david@haberlah. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ... 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. ... Liliopsida is the botanical name for a class. ... 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. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as , (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist[1] who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. ... Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (April 17, 1794–December 13, German botanist and explorer. ... The Arabic language (Arabic: ‎ translit: ), or simply Arabic (Arabic: ‎ translit: ), is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... Genera Many; see list of Arecaceae genera Arecaceae (also known as Palmae or Palmaceae), the palm family, is a family of flowering plants, belonging to the monocot order Arecales. ... Fruit stall in Barcelona, Catalonia. ... There is also Nile, a death metal band from South Carolina, USA. The Nile in Egypt Length 6 695 km Elevation of the source 1 134 m Average discharge 2 830 m³/s Area watershed 3 400 000 km² Origin Africa Mouth the Mediterranean Basin countries Uganda - Sudan - Egypt The... 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. ... Four styles of household basket. ... The Material Culture of the Manasir is very basic and primarily relies on the by-products of palm tree cultivation (cf. ...

The doum palm fruit is also known in Eritrea as Akat, or Akaat in the Tigrinya language. This large brown fruit is eaten dried. Tigrinya (also spelt Tigrigna) is a Semitic language spoken by the Tigray people in central Eritrea, where it is one of the main working languages (Eritrea does not have official languages), and in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia, where it also has official status, and among groups of emigrants from...

It was considered sacred by the Ancient Egyptians and the stone was found in many pharaoh's tombs.

harvested by-products of the Doum palm

Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1067, 776 KB)A harvested Dum palm tree (الدوم) with its diverse by-products needed as raw material in the Material Culture of the Manasir (c) GFDL David Haberlah (Homepage of David Haberlah, david@haberlah. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1067, 776 KB)A harvested Dum palm tree (الدوم) with its diverse by-products needed as raw material in the Material Culture of the Manasir (c) GFDL David Haberlah (Homepage of David Haberlah, david@haberlah. ...

References

• USDA profile Hyphaene thebaica

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