Botanical name: Hyphaene dichotoma    Family: Arecaceae (Palm family)
Synonyms: Borassus dichotomus, Hyphaene indica, Hyphaene taprobanica

Indian Doum Palm is a tree with stem symmetrically branched, 8-10 m long. Trunk is dark-black, annulated, sometimes covered with persistent leaf scars, smooth; bark grey-ash colored in lower half, green on upper part. Leaves are about 1 m broad, flabellate, multiply divided palmately, long stalked. Inflorescences are branched about 6, bearing about 6 flowering branchlets, digitately arranged the next bearing 5, and the apical branch which is convex and only 8 mm in diameter bearing only 2. The branches arise from their respective spathes. Fruits are pretty, regularly obovate pear-shaped. Indian Doum Palm is native to South India and Sri Lanka.

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The flower labeled Indian Doum Palm is ...