Date (Khajur) Plants

Date Plant is a sweet fruit tree and a type of palm tree, which is known as “Khajur” in Bengali. Scientific name of this plant is “Phoenix dactylifera” and it belongs from family of “Arecaceae” or “Palmae”. Date is one seeded fruit and this fruit yellow colored in before ripen condition; after ripen it will be brown in color; and its seeds are very hardy. It is very delicious fruit plant and it is a type of stone fruit. Date fruit is used for snack food and sweet food; trunk of this plant is used for make furniture.

Care and maintenance of date plant is very easy; it requires full of sunlight and no particular choose in soil only it needs well drained soil. This plant can tolerate drought but regular watering can be help to fast growth of this plant. Excess water can be damaged this plant growth and it must be need protect from cold air. It requires temperature ‘between 20°C to 25°C’ at daytime and 15°C at nighttime in Summer Season. In Winter season, it needs temperature ‘between 10°C to 15°C’ because of its non growing time. When Date plant is robustly growing, then it needs bright indirect sunlight and regular ferlizer.