Phoenix dactylifera
Date · Date Tree · Date Palm
About the plant
What it is and where it grows — not part of any germination protocol.
- Habit
- treePlants of the World Online
- Habit
- Perennial, Shrub, TreePLANTS Database
- Flower
- GreenFlora of Pakistan
- Native range
- Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi ArabiaGBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Toxicity is noted only where a source states it. No note here is not a finding of safety.
Sources: Plants of the World Online — Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; PLANTS Database — USDA NRCS; Flora of Pakistan — S. I. Ali and M. Qaiser (eds.); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Worth knowing
- Date comes through Old French and Latin from the Greek daktylos, finger. Old English called the fruit a fingerapple. Wikipedia: Date palm
Protocol
DerivedN. C. Deno, 1996Difficulty Low
Clean the flesh off the seed
Leach in running water
Duration: 3 days
Washed and cleaned daily for 3 days.
Sow and cover
Temperature: 70°F 21°C Light: dark
3 days from start to sowing. Then 56 days to germinate.
80% germination in 21–56 days.
How each step is done, in Deno’s words, and what Verified and Derived mean.
Germination trials
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