East Indian Wine Palm Small 320×262 Medium 640×524 Large 1024×839 Download Tiff Original 2400×1966 | (1.5 MB) Description East Indian Wine Palm, also known as Wild Date, is the common name of phoenix sylvestris. The fruit is reddish yellow when ripe and one one inch long. The tree grows forty feet tall. Keywords date palm, east indian wine palm, palm tree, phoenix, phoenix sylvestris, wild date Galleries Palm Trees, Trees: D-H Source: Nicholson, George The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, Div. VI (London, England: L. Upcott Gill, 1884)