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Phoenix dactylifera
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Phoenix dactylifera is the true date palm—the species behind commercial soft and semi-dry dates from oasis agriculture. Fruit chemistry ranges from caramel-soft Medjool types to firmer baking dates depending on cultivar and cure. The binomial marks true date palm rather than related palms sold as ornamental fruit. Choose named cultivars when texture and moisture for eating raw or cooking matter.
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Date palm domestication in the Fertile Crescent underpinned oasis food systems.
Linnaeus named Phoenix dactylifera as the cultivated date palm.
Global trade expanded named P. dactylifera cultivars from North Africa and the Middle East.
Genomics and cultivar registries organised commercial date diversity under the species.