Phoenix reclinata - Senegal Date Palm with ripening fruit

I hope you can eat the fruit..i like dates..:o))))

Mushybanna:

I think it's edible...however, isn't the high-quality fruit like Phoenix dactylifera - True Date palm.

I was going to say i'm off to the garden centre to get one but its properly quicker to go to the supermarket and buy some dates...:o)))))

Mushybanna:

Yes, the supermarket would be much faster. : >) Date trees: to produce high quality fruit must a have a very, very hot desert climate.

Dates are grown commercially in the far eastern San Diego County, Riverside County in the Coachella Valley (which is in the desert).

Have one- excruciatingly slow. Or slower then that- lol.

I've always thought of P. reclinata as a very fast growing palms (even in the Bay Area).

My mistake...I was thinking it was P.rupicola.

Yes, P. rupicola is a slower grower pretty much anywhere.