Product Description
Habitat and Distribution
Madagascar only.
Description
This palm appears to be in the same family as the Dypsis sp. 'white.' Both are medium to large palms, and hold few leaves until larger. Both are extremely colorful and attractive palms. No one, at this point in time, has offered any suggestions of an ID. So for now, this beautiful palm, characterized by dark "mealy bug" markings on the petioles as a juvenile, will have to be classified as undescribed. Editing by edric.
Culture
Cold Hardiness Zone: 10a
Comments and Curiosities
A magnificent, large and somewhat mysterious Dypsis from lowland rainforests on the Masoala peninsula in northeastern Madagascar. As a young plant it is particularly colorful and stunning, with reddish-brown leaf midribs that have dark markings, a waxy-white crownshaft and trunk, and beautiful dark green leaves with somewhat pendulous leaflets. Mature trees are very large with a robust, solitary trunk, a long crownshaft and huge, ascending leaves that are strongly recurved towards the tip. The long, regularly arranged leaflets have weeping tips. The seeds are rather large and ruminate. (RPS.com)
This is a tillering palm, it exhibits saxophone style root growth (it has a heel), keep top third of heel above soil elevation!
