That is, until the Hurricane Janet came along and wiped out the plantations. In Xcalak, palm trees are mostly coconut palms because the area used to be a coconut plantation. Some grow tall, some stay small some only grow outdoors, some can grow indoors.Д¬heck out this small list of palm tree species and youвЂ™ll see some pretty interesting names. Some have fan-leaves, some have feather-leaves, and some grow fruit. After all, how many species of human are there?ДЄnyways, back to palm trees. But with nearly three thousand different species of palms, youвЂ™ve got to admit thatвЂ™s a lot. OK, I canвЂ™t actually validate that statement. ThatвЂ™s right, there are more types of palm trees then there are flavors of hot sauce in Mexico. What does palm tree retirement look like? Well, itвЂ™s all the fun stuff (waving in the breeze, providing shade) without the work (growing coconuts).ДЄnd coconut palms donвЂ™t even have to worry about which tropical location to move to, because theyвЂ™re already in a great location (especially Xcalak palm trees). Just like a human!ДЄlso like a human, the trees production slows down as it ages and stops about age 70. So a coconut palm tree only starts its real job once it hits its 20вЂ™s. One species was estimated to live up to 740 years old!ДЄlthough a coconut palm lives longer than you, it takes about as long to mature вЂ“ palms take around 5 years to grow a trunk and another 15 years to produce coconuts. This makes it tough to determine their age, right? Luckily, scientists can use other methods to estimate a palm treeвЂ™s life. Of course, as you already learned, palm trees donвЂ™t have growth rings like regular trees. The palm trees in Xcalak live around 100 years or more. Unless youвЂ™re unusually long-lived, a palm tree will probably outlast you. But with a trunk, a crown of leaves, and everyone in the English-speaking world calling them вЂњpalm treesвЂќ, donвЂ™t change your vocabulary now.

a palm tree does not grow bark вЂ“ itвЂ™s basically the same on the inside as the outsideД¬alling a palm tree вЂњpalm grassвЂќ is technically correct.a palm tree does not create rings as it grows вЂ“ itвЂ™s yearly growth isnвЂ™t marked on the tree.

And unless youвЂ™re an expert on the Arecaceae plant family, you probably assumed that because itвЂ™s called a вЂњpalm treeвЂќ that itвЂ™s a tree.ДЄ palm tree is actually a type of grass. This whole matter just illustrates once again how squishy and difficult prepositions can be in English-or in any language, for that matter.One of the first palm trees in Xcalak youвЂ™ll meet, is the coconut palm. And had he used in in this case the focus would have been widened to emphasize the tree, not the bird-hardly appropriate to the song of a little bird. We're given a close-up of the bird, and the economy of words necessary to lyricize a simple song forces Gilbert to pare down the verbiage, so the ideas are telescoped: 'On a branch of a tree' simply wouldn't scan. Gilbert is offering a little sketch of a bird singing, and to do so it must sit on a branch. This is a legitimate usage, one that would seem to contradict my statement about the in usage. This is from The Mikado by Gilbert & Sullivan, from the song 'Tit-Willow': Now, just to confound everyone (and reveal the nuance), consider another reference. There it is quite obvious we are close enough to actually see the bird in the tree. Note, however, that it is entirely proper to say that a bird lights on (or upon) a branch. Even on a leafless dead or dormant tree, though, we still refer to birds in the trees. They are in among the branches, in among the foliage. Unless the foliage is sparse, you probably can't even see the birds, though birdsong may announce their presence. Now, the leaves are probably the origin of the use of the preposition in with respect to trees: the birds are in among the leaves. No place, there, for fallen trees these are youthful, upright and leaf-covered. The poet is concerned here to draw a contrast between old and young, and the birds (in the fragment I boldfaced) are on the youth side of that equation. The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,ДЇish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long In one another's arms, birds in the trees, Nevertheless, there are nuances to everything. I wrote the above eight years ago, and still stand by what I say. Sitting 'in' a tree means sitting in among the branches, most likely at least partly hidden from view. If you were to say two people were 'sitting on a tree' in this case, it would imply that the tree was on the ground-i.e., that it had fallen or been cut down.

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