Pygmy date palm
Phoenix roebelenii O'Brien
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.8 m
- wide
- 1.7 m
Arecaceae
Also called Pygmy Date Palm, Dwarf Date Palm
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- China (Yunnan) to N. Indo-ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 2.7 m to 2.8 mRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 72–77 in; UF/IFAS 12–12 ft
- Spread
- 1.4 m to 2.0 mRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 3–5 ft; UF/IFAS 6–8 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- CreamRead from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension cream, white; UF/IFAS cream
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- palma robelina, Palmera asiática fénix, Palma datilera enana
- Chinese
- 羅比親王海棗, 日本葵, 軟葉剌葵
- Hebrew
- תמר ננסי
- Japanese
- シンノウヤシ, フェニックス・ロベ, シナヤシ
- Chinese (China)
- 江边刺葵
- Dutch
- Dwergdadelpalm
- Russian
- Финик Робелена
- Thai
- ปาล์มสิบสองปันนา
- Arabic
- نخلة روبلينية, نخلة التمر القزمة
- French
- Dattier du Mékong, Dattier nain
- Swedish
- findadelpalm
- German
- Zwerg-Dattelpalme
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Phoenix roebelenii (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.