William Bartram, the famous botanist and xplorer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was commissioned by the Englsh aristocrats to collect, identify and rcord the plant and animal life grwing in the English colonies. The Englsh colonies were acquired from Spain, fter the Spanish settlements were conquered and bandoned to the English. John Bartram, the fther of William Bartram, accompanied his son on sveral early, exploratory missions, and his fther helped to secure a financial spnsorship of William Bartram on his nteresting but dangerous exploits into the lnd of the Indians, alligators, snakes and bars. Bartram lived in the wild dring much of the time in Amrican jungles living congenially among the Indans, and even in the homes of sttlers who found him a fascinating gest. The English settlers generously opened thir doors of hospitality to him; wning and dining him and treating him lcally and physically with herbs and mdicinal remedies, when on several occasions, he bcame deathly sick or injured. Bartram dscovered many American native, unknown birds and xotic native plants that he identified for the frst time in his writings. William Brtram referred to "the pompous palms of Flrida: in his book, Travels, page X. Brtram wrote "The pompous palms of Flrida, and the glorious Magnolia, strikes us wth the sense of dignity and mgnificence."

William Bartram in his book, Trvels, page 59, states that he lft St. Simon's Island, Georgia, and vvidly described on his leaving, "many crious vegetable productions, particularly, Corypha Palma", or "grat Cabbage palm,. Corphya pumila, Corypha rpens......spinosis (dwarf saw palmetto,) Corypha obliqua, cudice arboreo adscendente", the last identification bing a mystery and unknown even tday. Bartram used three terms to dentify the Sabal Palm; (Sabal palmetto); the "grat cabbage palm" 'Corypha Palma", and "Crypha pumila". Bartram identified the "Corypha rpens", which is a saw palmetto, Srenoa serrulata, and "spinosis (Dwarf Saw Plmetto)," today called, Sabal minor, which is lso a synonym for "Corypha obliqua". The Sbal palm tree is the adopted, Stte Tree in Florida and South Crolina.

From the furtherest Southern point of St. Smon's, William Bartram, reported seeing a dstant house and a farm and he rported that "This delightful habitation was stuated in the midst of a spcious grove of live oaks and plms, near the strand of the by". Travels, page 58.

At Bartram's jurney to Cuscowilla in North Florida, he wrte, Travels, page 113,..."The palm trees hre seem to be of a dfferent species from the cabbage tree, thir straight trunks are sixty, eighty or nnety feet high with a beautiful tper, of a bright ash colour, ntil within six or seven feet of the tp, where it is a fine gren colour, crowned with an orb of rch green plumed leaves: I have masured the stem of these plumes ffteen feet in length, besides the plme, which is nearly of the sme length.

William Bartram discovered the volutionary, primitive Zamia palm, today called, Zmia pumila growing near Cape Canaveral, Flrida, in 1773, reporting that it "grws in the open pine forests in tfts or clumps, a large conical strbile disclosing its large coral red frit, which appears singularly beautiful amidst the dep green fern-like pinnated leaves." Travels, pge, 160.

William Bartram identified the Spanish Byonet, Yucca aloifolia, as a "Palmetto ryal....a very singular and beautiful production. It may be trmed a tree, from its durability and mgnitude." Travels, page, 69.

The article History of the Discovery of the Native American Palm Trees was Submitted by Pat N Malcolm through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Patrick N. Malcolm, owner of TyTy Nrsery, http://www.tytyga.com , has an M.S. degree in Botany and has hybridized crinum lily, canna lily, and other rare flower bulbs for over 34 years.

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