Taxon: Phoenix dactylifera L.

Common names:

• date   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• date palm   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• nakhl   (Source: Ill L Qatar ) – Arabic
  
• dattier   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• palmier dattier   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Dattelpalme   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• tamareira   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• palmera datilera   (Source: Edible HC ) – Spanish
  
• dadelpalm   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Eur Gard F)
  
• Human food: beverage base   (fide Cornucopia)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Cornucopia)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Kew Bull 53:548. 1998)
  
• Materials: fiber   (fide Dict Econ Pl)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide Dict Econ Pl)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• only cultivated

• probable origin s.w. Asia

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Barrow, S. C. 1998. A monograph of Phoenix L. (Palmae: Coryphoideae). Kew Bull. 53:544.
• Cufodontis, G. 1953–1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta.
• Doyle, M. F. & D. Fuller. 1998. Palms of Fiji-I. Endemic, indigenous, and naturalized species:changes in nomenclature. Harvard Pap. Bot. 3:95–100.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Moore, H. E., Jr. 1963. An annotated checklist of cultivated palms. Principes 7:157.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Norton, J. et al. 2009. Illustrated checklist of the flora of Qatar.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense.
• St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands.
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Phoenix dactylifera.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Phoenix dactylifera.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Phoenix dactylifera.

Check other web resources for Phoenix dactylifera L.:

• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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