Wild date palm
ಫೀನಿಕ್ಸ್ ಸಿಲ್ವೆಸ್ಟ್ರಿಸ್सेंधीஈச்ச மரம்
Phoenix sylvestris (L.) Roxb.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 17 m
- wide
- 3.8 m
Arecaceae
Formerly Elate sylvestris, Elate versicolor, Phoenix farinifera, Phoenix pusilla, and 2 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
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SW. India, Sri LankaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Chicago Botanic Garden, one source
- Height
- 15 m to 18 mRead from Chicago Botanic Garden, one source
- Spread
- 3.0 m to 4.6 mRead from Chicago Botanic Garden, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Chicago Botanic Garden and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from Chicago Botanic Garden, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- Chinese
- 林刺葵, 银海枣
- Simplified Chinese
- 林刺葵
- Hindi
- सेंधी, खजूर
- Tamil
- ஈச்ச மரம்
- Telugu
- ఈత, ఈత చెట్టు
- Kannada
- ಫೀನಿಕ್ಸ್ ಸಿಲ್ವೆಸ್ಟ್ರಿಸ್
- Marathi
- शिंदी
- Malayalam
- കാട്ടീന്തൽ, നിലന്തെങ്ങ്, കാട്ടീന്ത
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Chicago Botanic Garden, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Phoenix sylvestris (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.