Palm plantation of Elche
The palm plantation of Elche ( Palmeral de Elche ), located at Elche (the Valencian Community, Spain), is a great extent of palm trees which is into full Center-ville. It is the largest palm plantation of Europe, wider than certain Arab palm plantations .
The palm plantation is made up of more than two hundred and thousand palm trees. It is thought that they are Cartaginois which found in these grounds of Raising Spanish a place favourable with this culture. The Romans, who came thereafter, could preserve the palm plantation and take care of it. The Arabs continued the same task of protection and increased the plantation. It is under Abd Al-Rahman Ier that a system of irrigation was installed. Later, with the Middle Ages, one enacted a series of laws to protect the plantation and since then vigilance and protection did not cease.
The most known pieces of the palm plantation are the municipal park, the Huerto de Abajo , the Huerto del Cura and the Huerto del Chocolatero . The most beautiful oldest palm trees and are in the Huerto del Cura . Its name comes from its former owner of 1918. Certain specimens have more than 300 years. It should be known that a palm tree has an life expectancy from 250 to 300 years. These palm trees are same species as those of Iran. They are date palm and it is in December that they give their fruits. In addition, there exist some other tropical species.
Located in huerto LED Cleaned, seven feather-grass S enormous form a kind of candelabrum which accepted the name of imperial palm plantation in homage to the empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, which visited the garden in 1894 and declared that they were worthy of an empire.
The principal species of the palm plantation is the Phoenix will dactylifera, brought by the Moslems when they occupied the Iberian peninsula.
The palm plantation of Elche was declared Patrimoine of Humanity by UNESCO in 2000.
In 2005, one noted that palm trees are infested by larvae of a charançon ( Rhynchophorus ferrugineus ).
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