Doum Palm
Hyphaene thebaica
| Height: | Up to 9m |
| Family: | Arecaceae |
| Fruit: | Dates |
The Doum Palm is also called the gingerbread tree because of the flavour of the fruit.
It is a plam tree but with forked branches rather than a single trunk. The leaves are fan-shaped. The oval fruits are yellow and are edible as well as the seeds.
This photo was taken in the
Selous National Park, Tanzania.
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