Abstract
Customary accreditation of 1730 as the year of introduction of date palms into Lower California is a literary invention. More acceptable evidence places the event in 1765 or thereabout
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Aschmann, H. The introduction of date palms into Baja California. Econ Bot 11, 174–177 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02985306
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