Arecaceae
Mangrove palm
Nypa fruticans
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Genus
- Nypa
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Common names
By language (32)
- ace
- Nipah
- ann
- Ude
- Arabic
- نخلة نيبا
- ban
- Buyuk
- Bangla
- গোলপাতা
- bik
- Nipa
- Burmese
- ဓနိ
- Catalan
- Nypa, Nypa fruticans., Nypoideae
- Chinese
- 水椰, 烛子, 露壁, 亚答子, 亚答树, 亚答籽, 水椰亚科, 水椰子
- Croatian
- Nypa
- Dutch
- Nipa, Nypoideae
- English
- Mangrove palm, Nipah palm
- Estonian
- Nipapalm
- Filipino
- Sasa
- Finnish
- Nipapalmu
- German
- Nipapalme, Attappalme, Nypoideae
- Hungarian
- Mangrovepálma
- Indonesian
- Nipah
- Japanese
- ニッパヤシ, ニッパヤシ属
- Korean
- 니파야자
- mad
- Bhunyo
- Malay
- Nipah
- mnw
- ကနိ၊ တၞံ
- Persian
- نخل نیپا
- Polish
- Nipa
- Portuguese
- Nypa
- Russian
- Нипа, Nypoideae, Мангровая пальма, Нипа кустистая, Ниповые, Пальма мангровая
- shn
- တူၼ်ႈထၼိ, ထၼိ
- Spanish
- Nypa, Nipa
- Sundanese
- Daon
- Thai
- จาก
- Vietnamese
- Dừa nước, Nypoideae
Synonyms
- Cocos nypa Lour.
- Nipa arborescens Wurmb ex H.Wendl.
- Nipa fruticans (Wurmb) Thunb.
- Nipa litoralis Blanco
- Nypa fruticans var. neameana F.M.Bailey
Flowers
- In flower
- January, March to September (from 30 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Characteristics
- In the US and Canada
- Pacific Basin: introduced, Pacific Basin: native
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Douglas Goldman, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Qaalvin, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: RuB, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: 葉子, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: 葉子, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Abu Hamas, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Алёна Осипова, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Laine Taffin Altman, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
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.