Dypsis

Stunning Madagascan species with a pure white, powdery new leaf spike... one of the larger species. Strongly recurved leaves with uprigh...Read Moret, closely spaced leaflets. Fairly slow growing tree even in tropics. Was known for years as Dypsis sp. 'White'. Finally officially described 2011.

This is a palm that has shown up in many California and Hawaiian gardens (Florida, too?)... that was sold erroneously as Dypsis tsaratana...Read Morenesis for several years (that palm, which may actually be extinct, is a smaller, suckering species.. definitely not even closely related to this one!). I have tried several of these palms in my colder area of southern California with no luck, but others have had some make it... VERY slow palm here, and even slow in Hawaii... but at least there they now have some that are starting to make trunks. So far its actual identity is unknown, and probably won't be known, or created, until a specimen flowers and a palm taxonamist gets involved... but it is such a widespread palm, I added it here.

It is a solitary pinnate Madagascan palm with incredibly, pure white petioles and spike... quite striking! It has long, arching leaves with upright, 'V'd leaflets, and only tends to hold 3-4 leaves at a time (so far). It looks like it will be a big palm, but still no idea how big.