| 41. | The savanna through which the river has flowed gives way to a wide floodplain, studded with Borassus fan palms.
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| 42. | City Hall awarded Kemayan Horticulture Sdn Bhd a RM2 million contract in 1995 to plant the fan palm trees.
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| 43. | Along the Gulf Coast, Mexican fan palm can be found growing along the Florida west coast westward to Texas.
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| 44. | The hardy fan palm, Trachycarpus takil, is native to northern India and grows in the Himalayas, 8, 000 feet up.
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| 45. | The few trees present today, including California fan palms ( " Washingtonia filifera " ) were introduced in modern times.
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| 46. | Near Ban Thap Lan, Ban Khun Sri Bupram, and Ban Wang Mued, are rare fan palm or Talipot palm forests.
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| 47. | The leaves of the fan palm are collected in the months of June and July and first dried in the sun.
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| 48. | In addition, it contains the only native California fan palms in the state of Arizona located high up in Palm Canyon.
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| 49. | These are relicts of the ice age when the range of California fan palms was much larger than its isolated groves today.
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| 50. | The fan palm is important in Thai culture as its leaves were used as the parchment on which Buddhist texts were inscribed.
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