Chamaerops humilis : The name comes from greek and means "to prostrate shrub, the same epithet was derived from Latin humilis, which instead means" humble, low. " It 's a palm bush 2-3 meters high, which becomes a tree growing and may exceed 6 m in length, curved stems with leaf sheaths covered by brown or reddish. The leaves are palmate, green, sometimes bluish, shiny. The stalk measuring 0.5 to 1 margin on me bears thorns and yellowish brown, facing the apex to the fibrous base is in continuation with the leaf sheaths.
It is a dioecious plant, but does not exclude the extreme polymorphism hermaphroditism and sexual changes during the life of the plant, bears inflorescences compact but branched and short (20 cm) including two Spathes red-brown at the base. The fruits, round or oval, measuring about 2 cm and are initially reddish yellow, dark red at maturity. 
the dwarf palm is native to the Mediterranean. In Italy is the only palm spontaneous and now grows on the west coast of south-central and islands, cenosis participating in the Mediterranean. It is considered a relic from the Tertiary thermophilic, widely present in Italy before the Quaternary glaciations and this leads to almost estistinzione. Very hardy, resistant to cold up to several degrees below freezing, drought, full sun, poor soil, rocky or sandy sea and the winds too.
The palm is Chamaerops humilis of Goethe, as designed by the illustrious philosopher in his coming to Italy in Padua in 1786, this palm strikes Goethe strongly because of the extreme Polymorphism of the plant polymorphism indexed by the multitude of metamorphosis in which the dwarf palm is 'try':
- Polymorphism of the stem
- Polymorphism in the leaf size
- Polymorphism of the leaf apparently
- Polymorphism of the leaf structure in
- Polymorphism sexual
- Polymorphism of the fruits and seeds
- Polymorphism than spathe color of the flower
From this spectacular proliferation of life inspired Goethe to write ' The metamorphosis of plants ' , discussed text that theorizes a similar hypothesis but different to that of Darwin's evolutionary, "Goethe for the plasticity of space and time metamorfotica the plant does not make individuals but a whole ensemble, the species precisely aimed at achieving better harmonic balance of creation, the reasons being are inside. For the reasons being are outside Darwin, is the environmental pressure to leave life in individuals more structured shape the future of the species. text by Francesco De Santis
The metamorphosis of plants is the continuous reproduction of leaf morphology in all parts of the plant, from seed to the formation of the leaf itself.
to this theory are particularly affezzionato as in the study of polymorphism of the seeds I've applied through my smoothing 'Discovered' that the seeds of dwarf palm reproduce through their veins, veins of leaves that can not be attributed directly to the palm - as monocots, and then parallel to ribs - but can be an important point to understand how ancient plants (palms ) have in their internal details that refer back to the most recent plants, as if to attempt to evolution-transformation inherent in the palm itself.
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