The upper leaves of the Lak date palm rise obliquely and the lower leaves droop, forming a sparser, head-like crown.

The trunk of the Iraqi date palm tree can reach 20 to 30 meters in height. The leaves are pinnately compound, more than 1.5 meters long, and alternate at the top of the stem. The smaller leaves have a stout keel and are more pointed at the tip. Dioecious, with fat spathes outside the inflorescence, male flowers in panicles, female flowers in spikes, axillary. Berries long ellipsoid, resembling dates.

Iraqi jujube is also called sea jujube, jujube tree up to 35 meters high, the stem with persistent petiole base, the upper leaves rise diagonally, the lower leaves drooping, forming a more sparse head-like crown. The leaves are up to 6 meters long, and the inflorescence is a dense panicle of oblong or ovate, short-stalked, white, brittle male flowers.

Calyx cup-shaped, apically with 3 obtuse teeth; petals 3, obliquely ovate. Fruit oblong or oblong-ellipsoid, 3.5 cm long, deep orange-yellow at maturity, flesh plump. Seed 1, flattened, acute at both ends, ventrally longitudinally furrowed.