date palm

At a lecture, the speaker said a “fact” that for date palms to produce quality fruit, the roots of the trees need to mingle together and a single tree does not produce (good) fruit. Can you verify if this is true? With any species?

Thank you
Moshe

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#1 Comment By Downtoearthdigs On 03/30/2016 @ 2:19 am

Though you do need male and female Date Palms for fruit production, I have not found any information about ‘root mingling’ for fruit to be produced.
Here are some links with more information.
https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/date.html ^[1]
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/date/date-palm-tree-care.htm ^[2]

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