Pronounciation: FEE-nix re-cli-NA-ta

Hardiness zones
Sunset 13 (with protection), 23-24
USDA 9 (with protection), 10-11

Landscape Use: Large scale entryway plantings, mesic parks and green spaces, container plant, shopping mall atrium gardens, mesic, striking tropical accent.

Form & Character: Medium sized, broad, robust, full, imposing, graceful, lacey, refined, tropical.

Growth Habit: Evergreen, perennial monocot, moderate vigor and clumping, multiple trunks to 30- to 40- feet tall. Overall, its grow rate is slower in arid regions such as south central Arizona than in more humid and tropical regions.

Foliage/Texture: Feather palm, pinnately compound fronds to 6- to 8-inches long, somewhat pendulous, possessing stout pinnae much like Phoenix dactylifera, 18- to 24-inches long, medium texture

Flowers & Fruits: Dioecious, axillary inflorescence in panicles to 18-inches long, cream white, fruit oblong-ellipsoid, brown, 1/2-inch long.

Seasonal Color: None

Temperature: Cold hardy to 20^oF

Light: Full sun in landscapes surrounded by greenery.

Soil: Salt tolerant, but soils with some organic matter are best.

Watering: Must have regular water, performs well in wet soil.

Pruning: Remove dead fronds

Propagation: Basal division of basal branches (clumps) and remove old fronds.

Disease and Pests: None

Additional comments: Senegal date palm is a broadly-clumping, intermediate-sized feather palm for tropical and mesic landscapes designs. Beware though, it will occupy both visually and physically a lot of space once mature. In the United States, it is found in landscapes in coastal and desert southern California, lower desert elevations in Arizona, south Florida, and Hawaii. One redeeming aspect is that in Phoenix Senegal date palm does not grow as fast nor get as big as it does in more humid, tropical and subtropical climates.