Phoenix reclinata (reclinata - Latin, reclining), the wild date palm or Senegal date palm, is a species of flowering plant in the palm family native to tropical Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Madagascar. It is introduced in Florida, Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Trinidad and Tobago, the Leeward Islands, Tunisia and Vietnam. The plants are found from sea level to 3000 m, in rain forest clearings, monsoonal forests and rocky mountainsides.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Reclining Date Palm being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Phoenix loureiroi
- Phoenix canariensis
- Raphia australis
- Jubaeopsis afra
- Phoenix roebelenii
- Phoenix sylvestris
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Arecales
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Genus
- Phoenix
- Species
- Phoenix reclinata
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