Arecaceae
Toddy palm
Borassus flabellifer
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Genus
- Borassus
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Common names
By language (48)
- ace
- Teuë
- Arabic
- بوراس مروحي, تال, دليب, دوليب, دوم, شجرة المقل, نخيل الدليب, نخيل الدوليب
- arz
- بوراس مروحى
- ban
- Ental
- Bangla
- তাল
- Burmese
- ထန်းပင်
- Catalan
- Palmera de Palmira, Palmera de Cambodja
- Chinese
- 糖棕, 扇叶树头榈, 扇椰子
- Czech
- Lontar vějířovitý, Cukrová palma
- English
- Toddy palm, Doub palm, Palmyra palm, Tala palm, Great fan palm, Ice apple, Lontar palm, Wine palm
- Finnish
- Palmyrapalmu, Bassina
- French
- Palmier de Palmyre, Palmier a sucre, Palmier à sucre
- Georgian
- Პალმირა
- German
- Palmyrapalme, Lontar, Lontarpalme
- Hindi
- ग्रन्थताल
- Hungarian
- Palmira-pálma
- Indonesian
- Siwalan
- Japanese
- オウギヤシ, オオギヤシ, パルミラヤシ
- Javanese
- Siwalan, Tal
- Kannada
- ತಾಳೆಮರ
- Khmer
- ដើមត្នោត
- Korean
- 다라수, 토디팜
- ks
- تالہٕ کُل
- lah
- پالمیرا پام
- Lithuanian
- Vėduoklinė palmyra
- Macedonian
- Палмирска палма, Винодајна палма
- mad
- Ta'al
- Malay
- Tal
- Malayalam
- കരിമ്പന
- Nepali
- ताडको रूख
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Palmyrapalme
- Persian
- نخل پالمیرای آسیایی
- Polish
- Winodań wachlarzowata
- Russian
- Пальмировая пальма
- sat
- ᱛᱟᱞᱮ
- sg
- Kolongo
- shn
- တူၼ်ႈထၢၼ်, ထၢၼ်, မၢၵ်ႇထၢၼ်
- Slovenian
- Sladkorna palma
- Spanish
- Boraso, Palma Palmira
- Sundanese
- Ental
- Swedish
- Palmyrapalm
- Tamil
- ஆசியப் பனை, ஆசியப் பனை மரம், பனை மரம்
- Telugu
- ఆసియా తాటి చెట్టు, బొరాసస్ ఫ్లాబెల్లిఫర్
- Thai
- ตาล, งวงตาล, จาวตาล, ตาลโตนด, ต้นตาล, ต้นตาลตัวผู้, ต้นตาลตัวเมีย, ลูกตาล
- Ukrainian
- Пальмірова пальма, Пальміра
- Urdu
- تاڑ
- Vietnamese
- Thốt nốt
- Wolof
- Ron
Synonyms
- Borassus flabelliformis L.
- Borassus flabelliformis L.
- Borassus sundaicus Becc.
- Borassus tunicatus Lour.
- Lontarus domestica Gaertn.
- Lontarus flabellifer (L.) F.Lestib.
- Pholidocarpus tunicatus (Lour.) H.Wendl.
- Thrinax tunicata (Lour.) Rollisson
Flowers
- In flower
- January, March to May, July to August (from 23 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Sayee Girdhari, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Aravinth, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Franz Xaver, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Shyamal assumed, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: J.M.Garg, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Navaneeth Sini George, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: J.M.Garg, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Manoj Karingamadathil, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.