Dayri

Variety of Date palm · Phoenix dactylifera

Long, dark soft date ("monastery date") with syrup-sweet, mild flesh.

Also known as: Deiri, Dairi, Monastery Date

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Taste & characteristics

mildsweet

Given in thirds of a month (early / mid / late) for the northern hemisphere in a temperate climate; altitude and season shift them.

Long, slender, soft date with dark skin and very sweet, tender flesh.

Productive; a traditional cultivar of southern Iraq.

Good yield; also introduced to California.

Dioecious: female cultivar, requires a male pollen donor.

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