Where did palm trees come from?

Question

My mother and I are in a spit she says that all palm trees come from India way back in the dino days and I say that they come from the middle east or the southern islands who is right

Answer 1

It depends what type of palm tree you are talking about.

"There are roughly 202 currently known genera with around 2600 species, most of which are restricted to tropical, subtropical, and possibly warm temperate climates.

Human use of palms is as old or older than human civilization itself, starting with the cultivation of the Date Palm by Mesopotamians and other Middle Eastern peoples 5000 years or more ago."

So I guess that means the palm wasnt just invented one last afternoon.