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  • Palm-tree Euterpe edulis (EN) grows in lower altitudes.

    Southeast Atlantic Forest Reserves, Brazil 2008

  • The vegetation is, everywhere, luxuriant and beautiful, and the Palm-tree makes a novel feature in the novel scenery.

    Pictures from Italy 2007

  • Had time been of no object, we should have moved on into Palm-tree House.

    In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

  • Early next day I rode to Palm-tree House on a little horse belonging to the hotel: out by the

    In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

  • Palm-tree House belonged for more than twenty years to a British merchant, who simply provided accommodation for any sportsman liking to come out and put up for a week or so outside Mogador: it has still the air of a shooting-box.

    In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

  • Building a House with the Products of the Palm-tree

    Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich

  • The well-known Assyrian emblem of a Pine cone being presented by a priest to a Palm-tree is supposed by E.B. Tylor to symbolize fertilization -- the Pine cone being masculine and the Palm feminine.

    Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

  • Cape; the western, Europa Point; the portion of the reef between their habitation and Palm-tree Rock became Filey Brig; the other section

    The Wings of the Morning Louis Tracy 1895

  • To reach Palm-tree Rock -- anticipating its subsequent name -- he must cross a space of some thirty feet and wade up to his waist.

    The Wings of the Morning Louis Tracy 1895

  • His chief difficulty was to hoist into place the tall poles he needed, and for this purpose he had to again visit Palm-tree Rock in order to secure the pulley.

    The Wings of the Morning Louis Tracy 1895

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