{"id":344879,"date":"2025-08-21T19:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=344879"},"modified":"2025-08-22T11:05:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:35:39","slug":"palmyra-palm-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/palmyra-palm-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmyra Palm Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Palmyra palm trees in Odisha are playing a significant ecological and social role. They are helping reduce lightning-related deaths, as the tall trees act as natural lightning conductors, diverting strikes away from human settlements.<\/p>\n<h2>About Palmyra Palm Tree (Borassus flabellifer)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Palmyra palm tree is commonly <strong>known as the sugar palm, toddy palm, or fan palm.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is native to <strong>tropical Africa but has been widely cultivated and naturalized across India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is also the state tree of Tamil Nadu<\/li>\n<li>In India, it is often planted as a windbreak on plains to protect crops and settlements.<\/li>\n<li>The Palmyra palm <strong>exhibits adaptability to a wide variety of soil types,<\/strong> including sandy soil, red soil, black soil, and river alluvium.<\/li>\n<li>It can also <strong>thrive in arid and wasteland conditions,<\/strong> making it suitable for cultivation in marginal areas.<\/li>\n<li>The tree is <strong>well-suited to semi-arid regions with an annual rainfall of less than 750 mm.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It can successfully<strong> grow at altitudes ranging from sea level up to 800 meters.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Uses<\/strong>&#8211; Every part of the tree serves a purpose\u2014whether for housing, medicine, shade, or food\u2014making it one of the most versatile and valuable trees in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Palmyra palm trees in Odisha are playing a significant ecological and social role. They are helping reduce lightning-related deaths, as the tall trees act as natural lightning conductors, diverting strikes away from human settlements. About Palmyra Palm Tree (Borassus flabellifer) The Palmyra palm tree is commonly known as the sugar palm, toddy palm, or&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/palmyra-palm-tree\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Palmyra Palm Tree<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,12039,1],"tags":[11872,10504],"class_list":["post-344879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","category-uncategorized","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-down-to-earth","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}