English: Date Palm.
Names: from phoinix or phoinikos, the Greek word for the date palm.
Culture: Phoenicians, Phoenix, the son of Amyntor and Cleobule; Phoenix, the sacred bird of Ancient Egypt.
Use: male plants little needed, 1 in 50 female ones.
Botany: unique in
Coryphoideae, being the only one with pinnate, rather than palmate leaves.
Content: estrogenic, estrone.