The medjool date is a very soft , sweet date , the yield ofthe date palm Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . Of the many miscellany of date , the medjool is among the good and most expensive . Most medjool day of the month grown in the United States come from ribbon first import into California ’s Coachella Valley from Morocco in the 1920s . In Morocco , the medjool was reserve for royalty .
Palm Trees
Technically , no ribbon tree is really even a tree diagram — they do not have a trunk whose girth increases with age . Palm " tree diagram " produce the same offshoot or " suckers " that a houseplant palm does , but these are pruned off to isolate the main shank . A issue of palms bring on day of the month as a yield . Some , like the Amerindic wild escort , are edible . Others , like the Canary Island date , are too astringent . The dates of commerce all come from Phoenix dactylifera , the " honest date palm . "
The True Date Palm
The on-key date palm likes a cheery , raging , dry climate with a good groundwater supply but small rainwater . This makes it the perfect flora for desert oases . It grow in North Africa and the Middle and Near East . People have educate the date palm for perhaps 6,000 . It is a splendid front Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , reaching 80 to 100 fundament in height and crowned with up to 200 20 - foot farsighted fronds .
Cultivars
The escort medal ’s male and distaff flowers are birth on freestanding plant , which means that for finish a stand of distaff tree diagram must have a male tree nearby . The many distaff cultivars are hand pollinated , and it is this which give rise the great variety of dates available from the one specie of date medal . The medjool is one cultivar ; others are the deglet noor , the halawy , and the khoury . appointment are categorize as gentle , dry and semidry . The deglet noor , a semidry eccentric , is the one most often found in storage .
Characteristics of the Medjool
The medjool is very soft , rich gold - cherry-red and very sweet . It is so full of rude sugars that its out tegument shines with sugar crystals . It has a luscious , spiced , almost broil taste . And it will be expensive , close to $ 10 a pound , mostly because growing and harvesting medjool dates is so labor - intensive . After hand pollenation , the tree must be netted to protect them from dust and rain , and the crop must be thinned and hand harvested again and again because the dates , even from one tree , all mature at different prison term .
Uses
The drying agent dates like deglet noor are useful for baking and cooking because they can be more easy chop and mixed than a easygoing date . The medjool are sumptuous enough to be simply rust out of hired man — mind , each does contain a pit . They are also a good rootage of aliment , high in carbohydrates and hold some protein and many vitamin . You ’ll find them in season from September through November , and they ’ll keep in a container in the refrigerator for up to six months .
