Palm
Silver Date Palm
Phoenix sylvestris (L.) Roxb.
FamilyArecaceae
EspañolDatilera silvestre
AlsoWild Date Palm, Sugar Date Palm, Toddy Palm, India Date
A solitary, slow-growing date palm with a slender trunk, swollen at the base and patterned with old leaf scars, carrying a dense crown of up to a hundred stiff blue-green to silvery fronds. It is distinguished from the commercial date palm by its silvery foliage. In India its sap is tapped from the cut flower stalks and fermented into toddy or boiled down into palm jaggery.
Sourced · see Record tab Not Evaluated (NE) by the IUCN Red List. · IUCN
Worth knowingMale silver date palms release airborne pollen that is highly allergenic, while female trees cause few allergy problems.
4on the estate
0carrying a tag
1sponsored
| Tag | Garden area | Zone | Planted | Status | Sponsored | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Palm Jungle | B | 17 June 2016 | Planted | Kathleen O., USA | |
| — | Palm Jungle | B | 17 June 2016 | Planted | — | |
| — | Palm Jungle | B | 17 June 2016 | Planted | — | |
| — | Palm Jungle | B | 17 June 2016 | Planted | — |
4 of these have no tag yet; they will be numbered when the garden team re-tags the estate.