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Oil Palm Tree

Elaeis

Photo by drews1
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Description:

It is a tall tree, with prickly sticks. It was about 30 feet tall and 5 feet wide. It uses the pricks as a defense of strategy, if and an animal, plant, or insect tries to invade it will easily die. The root system is half underground and half above ground. It does not produce fruit or flowers, it doesn't even have leaves.

Habitat:

The tree was found in a secondary tropical rain forest, in the shade.

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