Info from www.lycianturkey.com The trees that grow next to the bath are historical date palms, called phoenix theophrasti (also known as the Cretan Date Palm, found only in a few spots on Crete and southern Turkey). Fossils show that this type of tree existed 60,000 years ago, now they are one of the world's rarest trees and under the protection of the Turkish government.
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