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ILIMA FITRI AZMI
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GENRE-BASED WRITING 307-308
PALM TREES AT UNNES
There are 22 palm trees I observed at UNNES garden. I observed those trees at May 01, 2010 in the afternoon.
I found that the trees have similar appearances. Those trees have leaves, often gigantic in size, being usually firm in texture and branching in a pinnate or palmate fashion. They have large evergreen leaves that are pinnately or feather leaved compound and spirally arranged at the top of the stem. The leaves of palm trees are either arranged at more or less distant intervals along the stem, as in the canes, or are approximated in tufts at the end of the stem. The individual flowers are usually small, greenish and insignificant. I found approximately 5 or 6 flowers on each tree. The stems of those trees are bottle-shaped. All of those palm trees are unbranched. The heights of those trees are approximately 5 meters. Those palm trees are bungalow palms but the people around UNNES call those trees bottle palms because they have bottle-shaped features. People planted those trees at UNNES in order to beautify the garden as many people think that palm trees are good for decorating the garden.