Silly question, right? Not really. Trees are perennial woody plants. They must have a dominant main trunk and secondary branches. While palms possess a dominant trunk, they are monocotyledonous plants, meaning they are not able to make wood. In place of concentric rings of wood, as you would find in a true tree, is a constellation of vascular bundles in palms. In addition, palms do not secondary branches, rather they have fronds that radiate from a centrally located palm crown. Consequently, palms are not trees in a technical sense.
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