The picture I posted was taken beside our house where there is a palm tree, I'm planning to document all the food source of the bee near our place hope I could take a picture of the bees in their respective flowers collecting nectar and pollen. The common name for this palm tree is Manila palm, Christmas palm,Merrill palm with a scientific name "Veitchia merrillii (Arecaceae)" which is synonym to "Adonidia merrillii" . Manila palm is a palm with a single stem that grows from 5-25 m in height. It has a compact crown containing around 14 compound, pinnate (feather-like) fronds or leaves that grow up to 1.5 m in length. Compound leaves are made up of many leaflets that grow up to 0.6 m long and 5 cm wide. Flower clusters (inflorescences) develop in the leaf axils (in the angle above the junction of the leaf base and the stem). When mature, they are situated below the leaves and are 56 cm long. Pollen and ovule producing flowers are separate, although they are both present in a single inflorescence. Staminate (male) flowers can contain up to 200 anthers in which the pollen is produced. The fruits contain a single seed and are 3.0 cm long and 1.9 cm wide. Fruits begin to develop in the fall and by winter ripen to a bright red color and are visible beneath the foliage producing a Christmas tree-like effect.
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