Answer:
I have palms but not on hands I offer foods from distant lands When at my peak you'll see me smoke I'm famous for my friendly folk My flowers grow and yet they lay There's fire where a man will play.
The letter S is added to pluralise most words in the English language. eg. Letter to Letters Word to Words and Language to Languages. But I am a word that is pluralised with the addition of the letter C.
I grow up while growing down
I am gold and can be black and white I'm a symbol for a nation when freedom took flight.
Used left or right I get to travel over cobblestone or gravel. Used up I vie for sweet success used down I cause men great duress.
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.