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Pronunciation: Fee-nix dack-till-LIF-er-uh

Common Name: Edible Date Palm

Phoenix dactylifera' is one of the most commonly grown palms on the planet, as well as one of the most economically important ones as well. Despite it being so common, it is still one of the best, most magnificent and useful landscape palms we can grow in southern California.

Appearance and Biology

Habit: Solitary or suckering (more often the latter) with a large crown of about 20-40 leaves
Height: 80 feet tall
Trunk: Single to multiple trunks (usually pruned and kept as single) with naturally retained leaf bases, though that fall off with age showing a geometric, ornamental pattern of leaf scars; 2' thick
Crownshaft: none
Spread: 25 feet
Leaf Shape and color: pinnate; plumose (leaflets form on two different but nearly parallel planes); long (15') arching blue-green to dull green leaves with relatively short, stiff, sharp-tipped, induplicate leaflets
Petiole: 1' and very heavily armed with very stiff, very sharp, narrow, modified leaflet spines; unsplit leaf bases
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