Pick one category for the following text. The options are - company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work. Washingtonia filifera - Washingtonia filifera (common name desert fan ) is a species of flowering plant in the palm family Arecaceae native to southwestern North America. Growing to 1520 m (4966 ft) tall by 36 m (1020 ft) broad it is technically an evergreen monocot (not actually a tree) but 'tree-like' since it presents with a sturdy columnar trunk it has waxy fan-shaped leaves which are properly described in Botanical terms as palmate.
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Plant