Silver Date Palm

 It has a lot of similar characteristics with True Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera).

It has a solitary robust trunk, with an interesting diamond pattern created by leaf scars.

The Sylvester Date Palm requires some maintenance trimming old dead leaves that tend to make “skirts”.

The trunk is swollen at the base, about 13-18 inches in diameter.

Without crownshaft 90-100 large pinnate, feather-shaped, leaves emerge at the top of the trunk.

Leaves are about 10-15ft long, silver or blue-green color, slightly curved, with 100-120 sharply pointed at the end leaflets.

Leaflets are 1-1.5ft long by 1-2 inches wide and arranged in groups of 2 or 3, often cross-crossing. Petioles have are about 3ft long, armed with long spines.