Beragoka Palm

This plant is beautiful even as a younger specimen. It carries many closely spaced pinnae and a white petiole and rachis when the new lea...Read Moref first opens. As with almost all large trunked Dypsis, it has a heel at the base of the trunk. From larger specimens seen, it seems about 60% keep the orange crownshaft for a bit after the old leaf opens. Please note that the name given to the palm is in fact the trade name, and the actual one scientifically described in Palms of Madagascar is most likely a different plant.

ohhhhh boy!! I just got one of these beauties in a 10g pot but it is much larger then that. It is 5-6' overall height with 3 open fronds...Read More and one that is opening right now. Increadibly beautiful palm at this size but won't show any trunk for a while, especially in a container. I'm putting it into a 24" box soon and I will post a picture when I do.

Incredible tree- tall, deeply ringed light green trunk, and very long beautiful orange to geen crownshaft, topped with very long, arching...Read More and finely split pinnate leaves. The leaflets are exceptionally long and evenly spaced making this palm a real beauty. But it's the orange crownshaft that is the most startlling. Grows up to 60' tall and trunk up to 18" thick. Almost extinct in Madagascar, unfortunately.

Photos of these palms growing in Hawaii now brings up questions, since the original description of this species doesn't exactly fit these palms. There may be some alteration of this species in the near future. Problem is seed that comes over is always subject to misidentification... and though everyone's Dypsis is ending up looking like these, they all may in fact be something else entirely. I had entered this palm originally under the name it was sold under, to all the Hawaiians and Californians.. .turns out, as mentioned here and elsewhere, this is NOT D tsaravoasira... so I renamed it the popular name given it by Hawaiian growers: Orange Crush... it will take some taxonomist to get a real species name for it... which should be soon since these palms are getting pretty tall and should be flowering soon.

As of July 2015 this palm has been officially Un Named again… Dypsis pilulifera has been more accurately described by Dransfield as a plumose species and this palm has been moved back to 'Orange Crownshaft Dypsis' until further notice… oops.