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Tropical forest inside Atocha Station, Madrid. David_Evora / iStock.
Detail of the underside of a traditional Filipino house showing layered anahaw fronds used in the roof, reflecting native craftsmanship and design, 2014. Stanley Cabigas / Alamy.
Aerial view of Palm Jumeirah man made island and Dubai Marina and JBR district on a sunny day. Dubai, UAE, 2018. Kertu Saarits / Alamy.
Lucia RM Martino, James Di Loreto, and Fred Cochard, Fossil Palm Leaf (Sabalites sp.) Media Photo/Video, May 16, 2019. Smithsonian Institution.
Thus seems the Palm with stately Honors crowned
By Phoebus’ altars; thus o’erlooks the ground
The pride of Delos…
Raptured I stand, for earth ne’er knew to bear
A plant so stately
–Alexander Pope’s translation of the Odyssey, 1725-26
Jacques Callot, Two Palm Trees, 1628. Etching on laid paper. National Gallery of Art, R.L. Baumfeld Collection, 1969.15.589.
Print made by Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Free Natives of Dominica, 1780, Stipple engraving and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1981.25.1955.
Some of the royal palms stand (she told me). Stripped of their branches, like tall brown pillars, still they stand - defiant. Not for nothing are they called royal.
– Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Fabian von Poser, Fisherman smoking his boat with burning palm fronds, to harden the surface and to remove vermin, Dongwe Beach, Dongwe, Zanzibar, 2013. imageBROKER / Alamy.
A date palm tree (Phoenix dactylifera) and segments of the fruit bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840. Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Portal #1 VARIATION, 2022, Amina Agueznay. Natural spun undyed wool, cotton and palm husk (talefdamt) Flat and knotted weave. Courtesy of the artist ad Loft Art Gallery
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof.
(Song of Solomon 7:7)
Native fan made from palm leaves at street market in Manila, Philippines, 2017. Duy Phuong Nguyen / Alamy.
French, Top Hat, ca. 1820. Raffia and silk. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Michael E. Lane, 1984, 1984.580.2.
A Priest reading Palm Leaf Manuscript, Kerala, South India, India, Asia, 2017. imageBROKER / Muthuraman V / Alamy.
The popular Don The Beachcomber restaurant and bar, Huntington Beach CA, 2016. Stars and Stripes / Alamy.
Ming herbal (painting): Gomuti sugar palm. Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection.
