Date palm
ಖರ್ಜೂರದ ಹಣ್ಣುख़जूरபேரீச்சை
Phoenix dactylifera L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 30 m
- wide
- 3.2 m
Arecaceae
Formerly Encephalartos pungens, Palma dactylifera, Phoenix chevalieri, Phoenix iberica, 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
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Arabian Pen. to S. PakistanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 30 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- 15 °C (USDA zone 12b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 海枣, 无漏子
- Asturian
- palmera datilera
- Western Balochi
- آبدندان
- Finnish
- välimerentaateli
- Italian
- palma da datteri
- Slovenian
- datljeva palma
- Simplified Chinese
- 仙枣, 伊拉克枣, 无漏子
- Hindi
- ख़जूर, खजूर
- Tamil
- பேரீச்சை
- Telugu
- ఖర్జూరాలు, ఖర్జూరం
- Kannada
- ಖರ್ಜೂರದ ಹಣ್ಣು
- Marathi
- खजुर, खजूर
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 4.0
- 3D model: Phoenix dactylifera (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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