General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Tree
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 9a -6.7 °C (20 °F) to -3.9 °C (25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 11
Plant Height: 40 to 75 feet
Leaves: Evergreen
Fruit: Showy
Edible to birds
Other: Oblong, 1 to 2 inch long fruits are yellow to orange-red when ripe, maturing to brown; contains large seed. when dried.
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Underground structures: Taproot
Suitable Locations: Street Tree
Edible Parts: Sap
Fruit
Eating Methods: Raw
Cooked
Fermented
Resistances: Humidity tolerant
Drought tolerant
Propagation: Other methods: Other: Suckers can be separated (with effort) for starting new plants.
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
With thorns/spines/prickles/teeth
Dioecious

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Common names
  • Date Palm

Photo Gallery
Location: Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida
Date: 2018-03-22
looking upward upon a tree in front of a condominium
Location: Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida
Date: 2022-02-18
three full-grown trees in front of a condominium
Location: Orto Botanico di Cagliari - Sardinia
Location: Botanical Garden Barcelona (Spain)
Date: 2017-06-18
Location: Orto Botanico di Cagliari - Sardinia
Location: Orto Botanico di Cagliari - Sardinia
Date: 2017-09-10
Location: Paseo del Parque, Malaga
Date: 2015-03-25
Location: Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2015-01-26
Location: Athens (Greece)
Date: 2022-05-22
Location: Moody Gardens - Galvaston, Texas
Date: 2016-08-27
Location: Las Vegas
Date: November
Location: Date is a common fruit in the village of Bangladesh
Date: 2012-07-12
Photo courtesy of:Md. Anisur Rahman
Location: An Iraqi man harvests sugar dates, to be distributed to local orphanages, in Anbar province, at Camp Ramadi, Iraq
Date: 2010-09-14
Photo courtesy of:Tanya Thomas, U.S. Army

Photo courtesy of:FASTILY
Location: An oasis like area mostly containing date palms (Phoenix dactylifera or P. atlantica) in central-western part of Boa Vista, Cape Verde in 2010 December. Santo Antonio mountain in the background (left).
Date: 2011-01-27
Ximonic
Location: Rashidiya, Dubai, UAE
Date: 2011-06-30
Photo courtesy of:Vicharam
Location: Erg Chebbi, Merzouga, Morocco;
Photo courtesy of:MPF

Photo courtesy of:David1010

Date: 2006-10-23
Photo courtesy of:Ruli
Location: Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2015-01-26
Location: Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2015-01-26
Location: Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2015-01-26
Location: Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2015-01-26
Location: Moody Gardens - Galvaston, Texas
Date: 2010-06-27
Photo by hawkarica
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Comments:
  • Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Mar 10, 2022 9:06 AM concerning plant:
    This well-known tree from North Africa and western Asia is occasionally used in the deep southern USA. I've seen it planted in southern Arizona and southern California and in southern and central Florida. It is one of the palms that has the ostrich feather kind of compound leaves, that get to be 15 to 20 feet long; not fan-like leaves. The leaves hurt when touched in some ways. It is dioecious and the female trees bear the large clusters of the edible dates.

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