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How Long Will It Take for a Date Palm Tree Seed to Germinate? Date palm trees grow as tall as 100 feet. Date palm trees (Phoenix dactylifera) have a history extending back 6,000 years when they were used for roof thatching and a food source in ancient Egypt and Sumeria.
Ten years after sprouting from an ancient seed, the date palm is a big boy now, a scientist saysâand yeah, he can make dates.. View Images. A photograph of the date palm called Methuselah taken in 2008 shows the plant, which sprouted from a 2,000-year-old seed, when it was about three years old. It's now about ten years old and ten feet (three meters) tall. Photograph by ARAVA Institute, EPA.