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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]
Park Seed Company is an American mail-order and eCommerce seed company based in Greenwood, South Carolina founded in 1868. Park Seed specializes in garden seeds, offering more than 1,100 varieties of flower, vegetable, and herb seeds, plus a large selection of bulbs , live plants, and gardening accessories.
Seed Savers Exchange, or SSE, is a non-profit organization based near Decorah, Iowa, that preserves heirloom plant varieties through regeneration, distribution and seed exchange. It is one of the largest nongovernmental seedbanks in the United States. [ 4 ]
The sale of seeds to nurseries and collectors is another threat, as the seeds of popular palms are sometimes harvested directly from the wild. In 2006, at least 100 palm species were considered endangered, and nine species have been reported as recently extinct. [17] However, several factors make palm conservation more difficult.
There are two species of date palm that produce palm sugar: Phoenix dactylifera and P. sylvestris. P. dactylifera is common in the Mediterranean and Middle East, while P. sylvestris is native to Asia, mainly Pakistan and India. Date palms are cultivated mainly for dates and palm sugar is made from the tree's sap.
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
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