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Phoenix sylvestris (wild date palm)

Synonyms: Elate sylvestris (homotypic); Elate versicolor

Wikipedia Abstract

The plant is known as "wal Indi", "val Indi",(වල්ඉංදි ) by Sinhalese people in Sri Lanka. The word `Phoenix in the Latin name came from Greek and means "purple". while Sylvestris means "wild". The leaves may be used for making mats, bags etc. The tree is tapped to make a toddy or palm wine.
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Attributes

Fruit Conspicuous [1]  Yes
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [3]  Evergreen
Structure [2]  Tree
Height [2]  49 feet (15 m)
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Predators

Cynopterus sphinx (greater short-nosed fruit bat)[4]
Maconellicoccus hirsutus (pink hibiscus mealybug)[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kissling, W. Daniel et al. (2019), Data from: PalmTraits 1.0, a species-level functional trait database for palms worldwide, v4, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ts45225
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Cynopterus sphinx, Jay F. Storz and Thomas H. Kunz, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 613, pp. 1-8 (1999)
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0