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Phoenix sylvestris ranges from 4 to 15 m in height and 40 cm in diameter; not as large as the Canary Island Date Palm, but nearly so, and resembling it. The leaves are 3 m long, gently recurved, on 1 m petioles with acanthophylls near the base. The leaf crown grows to 10 m wide and 7.5 to 10 m tall containing up to 100 leaves.
Phoenix is a genus of 14 species of palms, native to an area starting from the Canary Islands in the west, across northern and central Africa, to the extreme southeast of Europe , and continuing throughout southern Asia, from Anatolia east to southern China and Malaysia. [3]
Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the date palm, [2] is a flowering-plant species in the palm family Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit called dates. The species is widely cultivated across northern Africa , the Middle East , the Horn of Africa , Australia , South Asia , and California . [ 3 ]
Silver date palm, Phoenix sylvestris Index of plants with the same common name This page is an index of articles on plant species (or higher taxonomic groups) with the same common name ( vernacular name).
English: Phoenix sylvestris, Indian Date Palm aka Suger Date Palm aka Silver Date Palm is a date palm species native to most of the Indian subcontinent locally called shindi (शिंदी) in Marathi. Not many trees are seen in urban areas these days due to deforestation and habitat loss as they are dioecious and need pollination partner for ...
Extensive taxonomic research on palms began with botanist H.E. Moore, who organized palms into 15 major groups based mostly on general morphological characteristics. The following classification, proposed by N.W. Uhl and J. Dransfield in 1987, is a revision of Moore's classification that organizes palms into 6 subfamilies. [ 18 ]
Phoenix: date palms; Phoenix canariensis: Canary Island palm Arecaceae (palm family) Phoenix dactylifera: date palm Arecaceae (palm family) Phoenix reclinata: Senegal date palm Arecaceae (palm family) Phoenix roebelenii: pygmy date palm Arecaceae (palm family) Phoenix rupicola: cliff date palm Arecaceae (palm family) Phytelephas: ivory palms
Phoenix sylvestris, the silver date palm or sugar date palm, a flowering plant species; Pinus sylvestris, the Scots pine, a pine species native to Europe and Asia; Podocarpus sylvestris, a conifer species found only in New Caledonia; Pogonomys sylvestris, the gray-bellied tree mouse, a rodent species found only in Papua New Guinea