Arecaceae -- comments
Comments: An extremely large and diverse monocot family with many important agricultural and ornamental species including Cocos nucifera (coconut), Elaeis guineensis (oil palm), Phoenix dactylifera (date palm), Washingtonia (fan palms), and Roystonea (royal palm). Notice that palm trees look woody, but they lack the taper of dicot tree (they are the same thickness at the base as at the top). “Wood” in the palm family is produced by a primary thickening meristem (adds more primary growth near the apex), not by a vascular cambium as you would find in a dicot with secondary growth!