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Date Published: 16/04/2021
ARCHIVED - Palm tree plantation resumes in Palmeral de Orihuela
The Palmeral constitutes an Item of Cultural Interest within the province of Alicante and dates back to the period of Moorish occupation which concluded in the 13th century
The Environmental department of the Town Hall in Orihuela has restarted the plantation project in the Palmeral of Orihuela for this spring; this project began originally in September 2020, when 73 palm trees were replanted at this location.
With the arrival of spring, the department hopes to plant around 100 more trees, which are to be moved from the “nursery garden” to their end destination in the Palmeral de Orihuela. These new trees will replace the old ones which have been lost over the years.
The plantation efforts are part of the Palm Grove Direction and Management Plan, which aims to increase the density of the palm trees to 350 trees per hectare: the current density is 220 trees per hectare and to achieve optimal vertical stratification.
The Palm Grove Plan projects the plantation of 3,120 palm trees within the next 10 years and in order to achieve this goal, the Town Hall has involved all of the primary schools in the municipality of Orihuela.
School children are taking part in a program to germinate around 1,300 new palm trees in the “nursery garden”, which will then be moved to the Palmeral once they are fully grown. The first of these new seedlings emerged on Palm Sunday under the project "the future of the palmeral is in your hands".
The Orihuela Palmeral is the second largest artificial palm plantation in Europe behind its near neighbour in Elche, and consists mostly of date palms (Phoenix dactylifera) which are believed to have been brought here by the Moors during their occupation of Spain between 713 and 1243. ( or 1492 in the case of the Kingdom of Granada)
The trees usually die after completing their natural lifespan of around 250 years, and some in the Palmeral are up to 300 years old. Click to read more about the Palmeral in Orihuela
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