The genus name comes from the greek name of date palms phoinix "which means' phoenix ', the word specifically refers instead to' origin of the palm formed by the Canary Islands. Just from the island of Tenerife in 1870, is was introduced in Continental Europe (Nice), the first pair of Canary Island date palm, from which tradition says are derived all those distributed in the rest of the continent. To date, the Canary Island date palm is the most widespread and most ornate in Europe's coastline.
has a single straight trunk and sturdy, with a diameter of 40-50 cm (up to almost 1 m), covered with leaf sheaths broad regularly arranged, towards the apex can be enlarged by the presence of sheaths longer, while the base often has a mass of adventitious roots. The entire palm, with its canopy, can reach a height of 15-20 m.
The leaves are very numerous, are pinnate, and also measured 6-7 m in length; are slightly twisted around themselves and appear dark green and glossy, are bent toward the base V-plane towards the apex. The lateral segments, many (150 to 300 per side depending on the length of the leaf), at the base of the spine are reduced to large spines. 
It 's a dioecious species with unisexual flowers in separate inflorescences on different plants. The spadices are branched with a single order of branching and arching or hanging by the hair, emerging from Spathes more or less flaky consistency between legnificato and board; female flowers are larger than the male, measuring up to a couple of meters. 
fruits, slightly sugary, are edible, ovoid, at first are yellow-green, orange at maturity, measuring 2-3 cm. seeds, slightly smaller than the fruit, have a characteristic common to all kind Phoenix to have a groove in the middle of the seed itself.
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