The palm tree pavilion at the current Madinah Dates Season exhibition highlights essential statistics and features of Saudi Arabia’s date palm trees. It offers an overview of the tools and methods used to maintain these trees, highlighting the tree parts that hold significance in local heritage and crafts, such as those creating mats and palm fronds.

The pavilion also displays popular date varieties like Anbara, Ajwa, Safawi, and Mejdool, and provides information on how to determine the age of a palm tree. Notes also show that young palm trees (1-4 years old) should be watered every three days, while older trees (over 5 years old) need watering once a week.

Attracting significant visitor attention, the pavilion demonstrates the fruit production stage, which typically begins five years after planting. Palm trees grow about one meter in height every year, reaching a height of 20 meters when fully grown; they can live over 150 years.

Also explained in the pavilion is the process of propagating young palm tre
es by separating offshoots from the mother tree and transplanting them for further growth.

Source: Saudi Press Agency