A: What a pretty palm. It is one of the Phoenix species, a date palm and possibly a hybrid. The date palms typically are cold tolerant and often very drought tolerant. Many species are grown ...

It’s 3 a.m. in Nimpith, a tiny town in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Sixty-one-year-old Chuno Mistry heads towards a row of wild date palm trees. Mistry is a shuli, or date palm tree ...

Also known as Sugar Date Palm, the khejur tree is native to the relatively dry parts of the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka and is abundant in the coastal districts of Bengal. A labourer slits a ...

Tadi' is a fermented form of nira. The shindi or the Indian date palm is thus a tree of many economic uses. The date palm also exists in Pune near the Parsi Agyari in Nana Peth.