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My Dypsis fine leaf is orange

tikitiki

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tikitiki

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100_1093.jpgI bought these three palms as Dypsis ambositrae a few years ago from a one gallon. I put them in the ground at the same time. One grows at about twice the rate of the others. Today when a leaf base fell off, the crown shaft was orange. Is this normal? Has anyone else seen this with their ambositrae? The other two have not changed but grow at a much slower rate so it may take some time.

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Fill it up with good red wine,

And I'm-a chewin' on a honeysuckle vine.

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BS Man about Palms

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WHOAAA, Thats cool!!  :D

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MattyB Grand Master

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I think it's 'cuz you cut off the leaf base when normally you wouldn't see that color.  It's probably always under there but fades by the time an old leaf falls off naturally.  Just my theory.  I've seen some cool colors when you reveal a nice fresh crownshaft.  I predict it will fade with time.  Looks real cool!

Matt Bradford

"Manambe Lavaka"

Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

10B on the hill (635 ft. elevation)

9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

bgl Grand Master

bgl

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Matt,

I'm not so sure that "it's always under there". If that were the case, I think we would have known about this sooner. Judging from the "orange crush" there IS variability between individuals. Some are much more orange, and a few have no orange at all. And the ones that ARE orange do indeed fade, but generally it takes a while. Maybe it's the other way around with this species; instead of most being orange, maybe very few are orange?

Bo-Göran

Leilani Estates, 25 mls/40 km south of Hilo, Big Island of Hawai'i. Elevation 880 ft/270 m. Average rainfall 140 inches/3550 mm

 

Tyrone Grand Master

Tyrone

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I've seen this before with this species in Singapore, but even more orange than that. Most Dypsis have cool colours somewhere.

regards

Tyrone

Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

Jeff Searle Grand Master

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I do agree with the opinions of the others. I have grown these for several years now, and they almost always show some of this color underneath the oldest leaf. Some do vary with how strong the color can be, and will always be more colorful if the older leaf is removed sooner than when it's ready to fall off.

Searle Brothers Nursery Inc.

and The Rainforest Collection.

Southwest Ranches,Fl.

DoomsDave Grand Master

DoomsDave

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tikitikitikitiki . . . .

None of my fakey ambeys have those orange crownshafts, not even for a N.Y. nanosecond.  They're totally different, and they rock.

Where'd you get them?  I want some too.  Grovel . . . .

dave

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Dave,

I got all three from a nursery in redland (south of miami). I can't remember the name of the place, really nice people even though the only neovietchias they had they planted onsite for seed and would not sell me any :( . I was driving through the area and stopped in. They drove me around the place in a golf cart and I picked a up a few palms. I don't believe they are open to the public but they let me buy something any way. Of the three this is the only one doing this, and it is still orange. When the leaf bases fall to about a 45 degree angle I cut them off, always have on all three and it has just started doing this..

With a tin cup for a chalice

Fill it up with good red wine,

And I'm-a chewin' on a honeysuckle vine.

Alberto Grand Master

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Nice collor!!

What is your spacing for this palm...?

   Thanks,Alberto

Carambeí, 2nd tableland of the State Paraná , south Brazil.

Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm

 

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