The document provides information about two species of palm trees: 1) Cabbage palmetto is a tall palm with fan-shaped leaves and produces small white flowers and fleshy blue fruits. 2) California fan palm has large fan-shaped gray-green leaves with white fibers along the edges, small white flowers, and black fruits. It has a straight trunk that can reach 80 feet tall.

1. Palmae/Arecaceae (Palm family)

3. http:// dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID =398 Cabbage palmetto Arecaceae Sabal palmetto Leaf: Alternate, palmately compound, fan shaped; Flower: Small white flowers occurring on large (several feet), branched clusters, appearing in early summer. Fruit: Fleshy drupe, nearly round, 1/3 to 1/2 inch across, dark shiny blue, maturing in early fall and persistent into the winter. Twig: Absent, since leaves appear directly out of unbranched trunk. Bark: Gray-brown, tough, splits vertically. Form: Tall (to 80 feet), straight trunk with a short rounded crown. 314E Angiosperm

5. http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus2/factsheet.cfm?ID=598 California fan palm/California Washingtonia Arecaceae Washingtonia filifera Leaf: Alternate, evergreen, palmately compound, fan shaped, leaf stalks long and armed with curved teeth, leaflets lance shaped, gray-green in color, overall leaf 3 to 6 feet in diameter, leaflet edges bearing fibrous white strands or filaments. Flower: Small white flowers occurring on large (several feet), branched clusters, appearing early summer. Fruit: Fleshy black drupe, nearly round, 1/3 to 1/2 inch across, maturing in September, persisting into winter. Twig: Bark: Gray-brown, tough, splits vertically. Form: A stout straight trunk with a tuft of leaves at the top, to 80 feet but more commonly to 30 feet, without pruning the trunks are usually sheathed in dead leaves (a "skirt") that extend nearly to the ground. 324W Angiosperm