Phoenix roebelenii or Miniature date palm is Small, sometimes clustering palm, often with a narrow skirt of dead leaves. Living leaves, 1-1.2m long, have many linear, bright deep green leaflets, sometimes with flattened, scale-like hairs beneath. Bowl-shaped cream flowers appear in panicles, to 45cm long, usually in summer, followed by ellipsoid, edible black fruit, to 1cm long.
