Phoenix canariensis, Canary island palm is known as the kinds inside a palme family, Arecaceae, indigenous to the Canary Islands. It's a family member in Phoenix dactylifera, the actual date palm. This is a great sole palm, 10-20 meters in height. The foliage is pinnate, 4-6 meters long, together with 80-100 leaflets on both sides of the central rachis. The berry is an oblong, yellow-colored to orange drupe 2 centimetres long and 1 centimetres diameter and that contains a single big seed; the berry pulp is actually edible however too tiny being worth ingesting.
The most used popular name in English is "Canary Island Date Palm". The well-known name in Spanish speaking countries as well as in the Canary Islands is "Palmera Canaria".
