the.com/palm tree
A tree that gave up on branches and leaves and committed fully to the mohawk.
means A tall, usually unbranched tropical plant topped with a crown of large fan- or feather-shaped leaves, often bearing fruit like dates or coconuts.
from From Latin 'palma,' meaning the palm of the hand — Romans thought the tree's spread of fronds radiating from a single point looked like splayed fingers. That same Latin root gives us 'palm' the hand part too, so the tree and your hand are, etymologically, close cousins.
- not wood
- technically a grass-like monocot, no tree rings at all
- bendy survivor
- flexes in hurricanes instead of snapping like rigid trees
- grows forever
- single growth tip at top, never thickens or branches
- ancient résumé
- fossil evidence dates palms back over 80 million years