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Wild Date Palm
Wildedadelboom · Phoenix reclinata
Kruger's only clumping wild palm, tied to rivers and boggy ground. Its orange-brown date-like fruits feed birds and animals.
Log your Wild Date Palm sighting — free →How to identify it
Clustered, often multi-stemmed palm with arching feathery fronds, usually leaning. Forms dense clumps and is always found near water on riverbanks or in swampy ground.
Flowers & fruit
Spring (August to October); fruit February to April
Browsed by
Fruit eaten by baboons, vervet monkeys and birds; fallen fruit by bushpig, nyala and bushbuck; elephants eat the growing tips.
Where to see it in Kruger
Along riverbanks, streams and swampy ground beside the major rivers and pans, in riverine bush.
Did you know
It is a wild relative of the commercial date palm, but its fruits are much smaller.
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