Sylvester Palm Tree [Phoenix sylvestris]

The silver Sylvester Date Palm Tree is also called the “Wild Date Palm Tree” and has been widely planted in Southern states, where it grows near other phoenix date palm trees, and they have hybridized somewhat with wild seedlings and were spread by wildlife birds that planted the hybrid seed in the wild, especially in Florida, where these variable hybrid wild date palms are extensively now being found. The leaves in the canopy of the Sylvester Silver Date Palm Tree are beautifully delicate and graceful, described best as bluish-green and silverish, when compared to the leaves of the Canary Island Date Palm, the Medjool Date, or Pygmy Date Palm leaf colors. The trunk of the Sylvester Wild Date Palm Trees is encircled by gray to white, diamond shaped leaf scars in neat rows that are considered to be extremely desirable for landscaping, exotic palms for planting near resort pools on the Eastern seaboard. The Silver Sylvester Wild Date Palm Tree is less tolerant of frosts and freezes below 28 degrees F than the Canary Island Date Palm Trees, but more cold hardy than the Pygmy Date Palm Tree. Nursery grown Silver Date Palm Trees are easily transplanted, but wild date palm trees from hybrid wildlife habitats do not easily survive transplanting.

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