Other Varieties might still go extinct
Thank you for the link just skipped to the cultivars
B/C I already read it in the Drunken Botanist book Sometime back,
but it does not say they found any female only a male so that is news to me.
https://www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/we-are-committing-crime-intensive-date-palm-cultivation-jericho/Only a few ancient varieties survive in family gardens, their fruits eaten fresh or sold locally and seasonally.
The environment here is desolate, the ground often strewn with plastic detritus from previous cultivations or other waste. The stench of burning plastic is everywhere. The plan of these agricultural entrepreneurs seems to be to buy land that has been recently planted or is in need of planting, to exploit it for at least a 30-year period and then leave it to its fate.
Also Dry Orthodox seeds can be kept for long dry (think Vegetable seeds, apple, persimmon etc. )
Recalcitrant seeds need to be kept wet
There Are Other types
I ask if anyone has a list of what is Orthodox , and recalcitrant
so I do not have to keep looking with every new seed I want to store or grow.?
A short one
https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=32111.msg352886#msg352886most people who send tropical seeds routinely send them packed in some kind of damp medium. they often germinate in transit and if all is well they arrive alive and well. certainly this is usually the best way to do it. but i have found that many tropical seeds which people consider recalcitrant can in fact be dried and stored. here is a list of some of the seeds i have dried and stored for at least 2 months, in each case more than once, with good germination afterwards-
jakfruit, champedak, marang, pedalai
salacca affinis, wallichiana
baccaurea spp.
inga edulis
annona spp.
eugenia spp.
american garcinia spp.
some asian garcinia spp.
langsat/duku
litsea garciae
being able to send and receive dried instead of germinating seeds is a big advantage to me. because of the mail service here, my outgoing packages typically take 1-2 months to arrive, incoming 1-3 months. germinated seeds usually die after that long in transit.