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Washingtonia filifera (Desert Fan Palm)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Washingtonia filifera, also known as desert fan palm or California fan palm or California palm, is a flowering plant in the palm family (Arecaceae), and native to the southwestern U.S. and Baja California. Growing to 15–20 m (49–66 ft) tall by 3–6 m (10–20 ft) broad, it is an evergreen monocot with a tree-like growth habit. It has a sturdy columnar trunk and waxy fan-shaped (palmate) leaves.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Fruit Conspicuous [2]  No
Edible [3]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [3]  Evergreen
Lifespan [4]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Tree
Usage [3]  A fibre from the leaves is used in basket making and for cordage; The whole leaves are woven and used as the side walls and roofs of huts and temporary dwellings; The seeds have been used as the rattle in gourd rattles; Wood - light and soft; It has been used for making cooking implements, spoons etc;
Height [3]  39 feet (12 m)
Width [3]  39 feet (12 m)
Fruit Color [2]  Black
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Death Valley National Park II 762125 California, Nevada, United States
Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve 5901 California, United States  
Organ Pipe Cactus Biosphere Reserve 327376 Arizona, United States  
Philip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center 6101 California, United States

Predators

Consumers

Shelter for 
Dasypterus ega (southern yellow bat)[7]

Range Map

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Kissling, W. Daniel et al. (2019), Data from: PalmTraits 1.0, a species-level functional trait database for palms worldwide, v4, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ts45225
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7Lasiurus ega, Allen Kurta and Glenn C. Lehr, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 515, pp. 1-7 (1995)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0