Palm Wild Date Palms Palms Palm is the common name for a family of woody flowering plants found in tropical regions of the world. The family is the only member of its order, called Palmae. It contains about 2600 species. Flowers of palms are usually inconspicuous but can occasionally occur in great quantity. Some palms may have up to 250,000 flowers.
Palms occur in tropical habitats.
They can be found in lowland rain forests, high mountains, mangrove swamps and deserts. Tropical Asia has up to 1400 species whereas Africa only has 120. About 950 species occur in the American tropics. Palms are important sources of food. Two examples are dates and coconuts.