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PALMERAS [1 record]

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Record 1 2007-05-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Culture of Fruit Trees
DEF

A family (coextensive with the order Palmales) of chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, and vines comprising the palms, having a usually tall columnar trunk that lacks a cambium and is therefore incapable of true secondary growth and bears a crown of very large leaves with stout sheathing and often prickly petioles whose persistent bases often clothe the trunk, and producing small flowers in very large clusters each subtended by a spathe.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arboriculture fruitière

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fruticultura
DEF

Plantas monocotiledóneas que a diferencia de los árboles no generan anillos o capas de crecimiento en el tronco, el grosor del tallo aumenta con la edad, por la extensión del tejido primario; su raíz, es superficial y fibrosa poco ramificada, que crece al igual que el tallo.

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