Cartoon style digital drawing of Date fruit. This drawing is used in an educational coloring book I published. The title of the book is “Learning To Spell All The Fruit Names D to J, Educational Arts And Crafts Activity Coloring Book, Volume 2”.
The book this illustration was created for can be purchased here on Amazon.
The contents and description of this book can be seen here Learning To Spell All The Fruit Names D To J.
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Date fruits are small oval shaped, range in color from bright red to bright yellow and have a very sweet flavor. They grow on tall palm trees that begin to bear fruit in 4 to 5 years and reach full bearing at 10 to 15 years, and can produce 90 to 180 pounds (40 to 80 kg) of fruit. Palms are known to live as long as 150 years, but their fruit production declines. All parts of the palm tree are used to make products of value. Its trunk furnishes timber, the midribs of the leaves supply material for crates and furniture, the leaflets for basketry, the leaf bases for fuel, the fruit stalks for rope and fuel, the fiber for cordage and packing material, and the seeds are sometimes ground and used as stock feed. The fruits can be eaten fresh or dried, they have a very long shelf life and are mostly sold dried and processed. Also syrup, alcohol, vinegar, and a strong liquor are derived from the fruit. The date palm may have originated in what is now Iraq and have been a staple food in North Africa and the Middle East. Spanish missionaries carried a tree to the New World in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Today they are grown in the Canary Islands, northern Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan, India, Mexico, and the U.S. state of California.
