The transit of plants over time in each territory is the most natural. Each plant lives immobile, but the species moves back and forth. The climate allows it. The plant will move to the living conditions it likes. It is therefore difficult to say that this plant is here and the other one is not. I relate plants to culture, and it's easier: we live with this plant. In fact, in our culture, for example, the landscape we live in is almost entirely cultivated by ourselves. Plants have not come by themselves, they are brought in, planted.
Going back to the palm trees, we have everything. There is a palm tree considered as European: dwarf palm tree, Chamaerops humilis. It's small, with lots of logs, unlike most palm trees on a trunk, and it's close to the Mediterranean. The rest of the palm trees that we can find in Europe are all from the outside. We've brought them from all over the world, very far away lately. Seychelles, Mexico, Brazil, Trinidad, New Zealand, Moluccas, Puerto Rico, China, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, Laos, etc.
We also have the closest, the most numerous, from Africa or Asia, most of them from the Mediterranean. In the warmer regions, areas with a softer climate are located. It has often been said that the Indians or Americans used to put a palm tree in front of their door when they returned from America. It is not uncommon to meet the Trachycarpus fortunes at the front of the farmhouse. In Euskera it is known as China palm or cannabis. And that is, although there's this saying related to the Indians, we've brought that palm tree from southern China. Although this “fortuns” he has in his name can easily be associated with wealth, success or fortune, it is actually a tribute to Scottish botanist Robert Fortune, who spent years exploring the vegetation of those lands. The gender name, Trachycarpus, comes from the creatures: trachus “rudimentary” and carpos “fruit”. They were growing this palm tree in Asia to pick up a rudimentary sack that had the leaf on the trunk. They made brooms, brushes, raisins, umbrellas, laces, laces, sacks, baskets, etc. The first copies were brought from Japan in 1830. It has since spread throughout Europe.
It won't be easy to know how it came to our homes. At the door of his house is the air of fortune. But also the air, which would have been enough to try to take advantage of a raffia or something like that ... And from there comes the name of the hemp palm? In fact, here the hemp (Cannabis sativa) was the base for making strings, laces and impetuous tissues.
