Taxon: Phoenix sylvestris (L.) Roxb.

Common names:

• date sugar palm   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• Indian date   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• silver date palm   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• wild date palm   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• Silber-Dattelpalme   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• Walddattelpalme   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• tamareira-brava   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• indisk dadelpalm   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: sweetener   (fide Dict Gard; Cornucopia)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Eur Gard F)
  
• Human food: beverage base   (fide Cornucopia)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Cornucopia)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Wealth India RM 8:28. 1969)
  
• Gene sources: probable progenitor of date palm   (fide CultTropS)
  
• Materials: cane   (fide Wealth India RM 8:28. 1969)
  
• Materials: fiber   (fide Wealth India RM 8:28. 1969)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide Wealth India RM 8:28. 1969)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Bihar, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal; Nepal

• also cultivated

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. 53:541.
• Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1969. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials. Delhi. 8:25–28.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• 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).
• Howard, R. 1979. Flora of the lesser Antilles. 3:343.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic.
• 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.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Phoenix sylvestris.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Phoenix sylvestris.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Elate sylvestris L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Phoenix sylvestris (L.) Roxb.:

• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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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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