Century Plant

According to W.H. Barreveld, without the date palm, the human race would not have been able to migrate out of Africa. Dates provided an energy-dense food for journeying across the desert, are mentioned 30 times in the Bible, and 22 times in the Quran. Every part of the palm, its wood, leaves, fruit, and nuts are useful, and civilization has been relying on them going back more than 5,000 years with the Mesopotamians.

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