Palm
Silver Date Palm
Phoenix sylvestris (L.) Roxb.
India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan
Fun factMale silver date palms release airborne pollen that is highly allergenic, while female trees cause few allergy problems.
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
4on the estate
0carrying a tag
1sponsored
FamilyArecaceae
Spanish nameDatilera silvestre
Also known asWild Date Palm, Sugar Date Palm, Toddy Palm, India Date, Datilera silvestre
Native toThe Indian subcontinent: India, Sri Lanka and southern Pakistan, on sparsely vegetated monsoon flatlands
| 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.