Indian Phoenix Palms

Published on 20 Nov 2025

• Recently, researchers have identified a new palm species and named it as Phoenix roxburghii.

• It is a new palm species named after William Roxburgh,who was considered as the father of Indian Botany.

• They are mainly found on India’s eastern coast and Bangladesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Pakistan and can grow 12 to 16 metres tall.

About Palm Tree: 

• Palm is a member of the Arecaceae, or Palmae, a single family of monocotyledonous flowering plants of the order Arecales.

• It is an evergreen plant which can grow in the form of shrubs, trees, or long, woody vines called lianas.

• It is distributed in America and in Asia, from India to Japan and south to Australia and the islands of the Pacific and Indian oceans, with Africa and Madagascar as a third but much less important palm region.

  
  

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Keywords:

Indian Phoenix Palms eastern coast Arecaceae Palm oil