Cliff Date Palm

The palms have solitary trunks, to 8 m in height and 20 cm in width, usually clean of leaf bases except near the crown. Leaves are 2.5 to 3 m long, 35 cm leaflets, pinnately arranged, on 50 - 60 cm pseudo petioles armed with spines. The spines are much less numerous and less vicious than the other Phoenix species. The fruit is an oblong, yellow to orange drupe, 2 cm long containing a single large seed.

Cliff Date Palm Tell a friend about this flower! File size 1184217 Original date 12/7/08 4:16 PM Resolution 2560 x 1920 Flash Flash did not fire, auto Focal length 4.6mm Exposure time 1/160s Aperture 4. More