Accession Data
Phoenix dactylifera
Common Name: Date Palm
Family: Arecaceae
Country of Origin: w. Asia, n. Africa
Description: Monoecious. This tall evergreen, unbranched palm from the Middle East can grow to 100'. It grows well in the Imperial Valley of Southern California. The trunk is covered with fibers, is surrounded from the ground upward with the base of earlier formed leaves. The end of the leaf fronds are needle sharp. The fruit is a drupe with one seed. When ripe, the fruit is a dull yellow and the flesh is soft and buttery. When dried, the skins of the fruit darken. Propagated by seed, but generally by suckers taken from the base of the plant.
Accession Data
Accession #: 198700269
Accession Date: 1987-02-25 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 2103
Quantity: 2
Source: The Banana Tree (seed)
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: commelinids
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
SubFamily: Coryphoideae
Tribe: Phoeniceae
References
- California Rare Fruit Growers WWW Site
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 17 February 2015.
- WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 17 February 2015
- Date Palm at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Thursday, October 26, 2017.
- Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) by abcdz2000 (originally posted to Flickr as Kajur) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Thursday, October 26, 2017.
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