Trees & Plants

Wild date palm

Boa kadhuru

Phoenix sylvestris (L.) Roxb.

In gardens and common places Inflorescence sap is nutritious, cooling at and laxative and is a source of sugar and toddy. Roots are used to treat toothache and nervous debility. Fruits, being a sedative and nervine tonic, are useful in relieving backache and pain in the buttocks.

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uses: Inflorescence sap is nutritious, cooling at and laxative and is a source of sugar and toddy. Roots are used to treat toothache and nervous debility. Fruits, being a sedative and nervine tonic, are useful in relieving backache and pain in the buttocks. It is also prescribed in cough, fever, nervous debility and gonorrhea.
family: Arecaceae
synonym: Elate sylvestris L.
description: Tree palm, to 16 m tall with a large crown and rough trunk covered with persistent leaf bases. Leaves 3-4.5 m long, greyish-green, with up to 10 cm spines at base; pinnules numerous, linear, 15-45 cm long and 2-2.5 cm wide, ending in short points. Flowers small, fragrant, borne in spadices; male flowers white, female greenish. Fruiting spadix about 90 cm long, bearing oblong-ellipsoid berries, 2.5-3.2 cm long, orange-yellow when ripe. Seed approximately 1.7 cm long, deeply grooved with rounded ends.
native range: Southern part of Pakistan
distribution: Widely grown in tropics a
english names: Wild date palm · Silver date palm
flowering fruiting: April – December
occurrence maldives: In gardens and common places