Phoenix dactylifera

Date Palm

Landscape Environment

Drought Tolerance: High

Cold Tolerance: 15 F

Salt Tolerance: High

Soil: Adaptable

Light: High

Charateristics

Mature Height: around 30 feet

Trunk: large flat scars, gray ,slowly clustered

Leaf: up to 20 feet long, one of a few with both pinnate and indulplicate forms, over 200 stiffy pointed leaves along rachis, several ranked, stiff

Leaf Petiole: short

Armature: spines are modified leaves at base of petiole

Color:

Flowers:

Fruit: fruiting primarily in dry, hot climates, poorly in humidity and subtropics.

Human Uses: Dates, landscaping


Technical Description: The Phoenix dactylifera trunk is slowly clustered , with aPleonanthic flowering habit, reaching a height of around 30 feet at an estimated growth rate of moderate per year. The leaves persistent leaf bases and when mature and/or free of leaf bases reveal a large flat scars, gray stem pattern. The leaf is up to 20 feet long, one of a few with both pinnate and indulplicate forms, over 200 stiffy pointed leaves along rachis, several ranked, stiff , Pinnate compound, several ranked , with induplicate leaf divisions. The petiole is short with spines are modified leaves at base of petiole armature. Fruit from this species is fruiting primarily in dry, hot climates, poorly in humidity and subtropics..