Cretan Date Palm

''Phoenix theophrasti'', the Cretan Date Palm, is a palm native to the eastern Mediterranean, with a very restricted distribution, confined to southern Greece, a few sites on Crete and nearby islands as well as some places on the Turkish coast. In Turkey, it is the only native palm species; all the others—although much more common—were introduced.

The specific epithet ''theophrasti'' was chosen by the Swedish botanist Werner Greuter in 1967 for the fact that Theophrastus, the ancient.. more