Toddy palm
ತಾಳೆಮರग्रन्थतालஆசியப் பனை மரம்
Borassus flabellifer L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 20 m
- wide
- 4.5 m
Arecaceae
Formerly Borassus sundaicus, Borassus tunicatus, Lontarus flabellifer, Pholidocarpus tunicatus, and 1 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- India to Indo-China, Jawa to Lesser Sunda Is.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Top Tropicals, one source
- Height
- 20 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 20–30 m; Plants For A Future 20–20 m
- Spread
- 4.5 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 3–3 m; Plants For A Future 6–6 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Top Tropicals, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Top Tropicals, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- Chinese
- 糖棕
- Simplified Chinese
- 扇叶树头榈, 扇椰子, 糖棕
- Hindi
- ग्रन्थताल
- Tamil
- ஆசியப் பனை மரம், பனை மரம், ஆசியப் பனை
- Telugu
- బొరాసస్ ఫ్లాబెల్లిఫర్, ఆసియా తాటి చెట్టు
- Kannada
- ತಾಳೆಮರ
- Malayalam
- കരിമ്പന
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Top Tropicals, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Borassus flabellifer (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.