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Orange leaf sheaths and petioles can be also a feature of Phoenix theophrasti. This can be especially conspicuous in its natural stand in Vai, where specimens with orange color grow side by side with specimens without this feature. It is speculated to be some kind of variation, and, if the theory of the german botanist Wilhelm Loetschert that phoenix theophrasti belongs to the sylvestris group is correct, then this variation also by sylvestis is natural and no result of some hybridization. It follows a picture of P. theophrasti with orage color from an urban landscape.

Even seemingly roasted seeds can sprout (personal experience). After all the name Phoenix refers also to a mythical bird that was getting reborn from its own ashes, coincidence? I don't think so Here is another pic (used as my avatar) from another natural stand of Phoenix theophrasi in Agios Nikitas. Notice please on the upper left corner of the pic., how on fallen horizontal trunk emerge new suckers!!!!!!! Tough fauna, tough flora, tough people, tough, tough tough....