Hyphaene thebaica Doum Palm
Family
Arecaceae
Genus
Hyphaene
Species
thebaica
Hyphaene thebaica, with common names doum palm (Ar: دوم) and gingerbread tree
(also doom palm), is a type of palm tree with edible oval fruit. It is a native to the
Arabian Peninsula and also to the northern half of Africa where it is widely distributed
and tends to grow in places where groundwater is present. It has been shown that dietary
supplementation with doum palm extract has hypotensive and hypolipidemic
effects.