- 🌿 Botanical Name
- Phoenix roebelenii
- 👨👩👦 Family
- Arecaceae.
- 🗣️ Vernacular Names
- Pygmy date palm, Miniature date palm.
- 🌼 Flowering – Fruiting
- June – July.
- 🌍 Distribution
- Native of Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
- 💡 Status
- Not Evaluated.
Description: Small to medium-sized, slow-growing hardy palm. Leaves pinnate, feather like, gently arching, forming a dense bright green crown. Leaflets slightly drooping, glaucous. Flowers cream-coloured, in axillary compound spadix. Fruit oblong drupe, black when ripe.
Uses: Grown as an ornamental palm.