Dates may very well be man's earliest cultivated fruit certainly, they have been the staff of life to many people living in Western Asia and Northern Africa for thousands of years.
The average tree can reach seventy to eighty feet high and begins bearing fruit when it is about seven years old. The tree may go on producing fruit for well over 100 years, some say as much as 200 years.
So valuable are the trees in many parts of the Old World that they pass as wealth from father to son and may even form a daughter's dowry. Oasis Date Gardens as been instrumental in the evolutionary process into the modern world
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