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Vegetative

 40-Big leaves

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At another extreme, leaves can be very long! They can be about 65 feet in some palms (here a royal palm). The "trunk" of palm trees is actually formed by the sheaths of the leaves.
Photo by K. R. Robertson in Jamaica.
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