Brewer's: Palm Tree

is said to grow faster for being weighed down. Hence it is the symbol of resolution overcoming calamity. It is believed by Orientals to have sprung from the residue of the clay of which Adam was formed.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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