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Hyphaene compressa

Authority H. Wendl. Family Liliopsida:Arecidae:Arecales:Palmae Synonyms Hyphaene multiformis subsp. semiplaena [ Becc.] Becc., Hyphaene semiplaena (Becc.) Furtado Common names auwaki (Sanya), baar, baar (Rendille), dabell (young), doum palm, Dumpalme, eeng'ol (Turkana), eng'ol (Turkana), gey-i-khooona (Rendille), ilala, irara (Mbeere), irara (Taveta), kone (Borana), kone (Orma), kulidhe (Daasanach), lparrua (Ilchamus), lparruai (Ilchamus), lparwai (Samburu), lume (Digo), meeti (Borana), meetti (Gabra), meti (young) (Orma), mezi (young) (Malakote), mkoche, mkoma, mkoma (Chonyi), mkoma (Digo), mkoma (Giriama), mkoma (Kambe), mlala, mnyaa, mokoma (Malakote), muaa, mukoma, muruguyu (Tharaka), nkujit-ae-nkeok (Samburu), palma dum, qoona (fruit), qoone (Borana), takaiw'a (Pokot), takayua (Pokot), takuyua (Pokot) Editor Ecocrop code 148253

Notes
DESCRIPTION: A branched or unbranched usually multi-stemmed palm tree up to 15 m high. Young fruit dark red or maroon. Mature fruit up to 8 cm long. USE: Fruits are edible, other uses include fibre, dye, wood and medicine. GROWING PERIOD: Perennial. COMMON NAMES: Doum palm, Palma dum. FURTHER INF: Alluvial, deep sand. In Kenya around lake Victoria and along the coast of the Indian Ocean. In northern Kenya along rivers and all along the coast. Sandy coastal lowlands, places with a high water-table, along seasonal watercourses, open sandy flood plains. Often forming pure stands. It is much affected by competition from bushes and taller trees.
Sources
EcoPort, Entity 148253, Unassigned Record, 2001