Arecaceae (as well referred to as Palmae), a Palmae, occurs as personal of flowering plants, belonging to the monocot order, Arecales. There are 202 presently known genera sustaining about 2,600 coinage, virtually all of which are then restricted to tropical or even semitropic climates. Of all a families of plants, the Arecaceae is the virtually all easy recognizable when distinct by virtually all souls. A nature and severity member of this personal is the areca palm, a fruit of which is chewed using the betel leaf and typically confused using it. A Date Palm, Rattan, and Coconut also belong to this family. Palm oil is an edible oil by a oil palms in the genus Elaeis. Many metal money come harvested for heart of palm. Palm sap is sometimes fermented to produce palm wine. A Palm Sunday festival uses palms, hence the title.

Economically crucial genera include: Areca Arenga Attalea Bactris Borassus - Palmyra Palm Calamus - rattan palm Cocos - coconut Copernicia - carnauba wax palm Elaeis - oil palm Euterpe Cabbage Heart Palm, and Açaí Palm Jessenia Jubaea Chilean Wine Palm and Coquito Palm Orbignya Phoenix - date palms Rhapis Roystonea - royal palm Sabal - palmetto Salacca - salak Trachycarpus Veitchia Wallichia Washingtonia

Watch list of Arecaceae genera for a complete list.

Couple of palms tolerate severe cold, & a majority of the metal money come tropical or even subtropic. A virtually all cold-tolerant come Trachycarpus, native to eastern Asia, and Rhapidophyllum, native to the southeastern United States. For other details, watch hardy palms.

around the United States, different types of palm may be seen in tropical & mediterranean climate areas, like Florida, (southern) California and Hawaii and along the Gulf Coast across southern Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana to Texas. A southeastern state of South Carolina is nicknamed a Palmetto State because of the total of palms that line the state's Atlantic coast. A select few palms may be grown when far northerly when Maryland, Arkansas, and potentially higher along a Pacific coast to Oregon and Washington. There develop possibly been known coinage of transplanted palms that keep close at hand survived when far northerly when southern New Jersey [http://www.bg-map.com/palms/woodbury.html]. A wild areas of Nevada, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico are also personal to a bit of native palms.

Southern Europe has two native palms, Chamaerops humilis (widespread, however principally seen inside Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Malta) and Phoenix theophrastii (Crete; also southern Turkey). Numerous more palms come widely planted, sustaining a Japanese Trachycarpus wagnerianus being grown successfully when far northerly when Iceland.