Clustering Dypsis cabadae

[bubba]

This is another attempt to locate Clustering Dypsis cabadae instead of Dypsis lutescens. To that end, I note that pictures of lutescens, lanceolata and cabadae look virtually interchangeable. Please give me your imput:

A closer shot:

Please let me know.

[Ken Johnson]

Missed again. Sorry.

[Ken Johnson]

Did you know that almost all (and I mean all) lutecens start life with about 20 other seeds in the same pot? Well I am hear to tell you that is true. The one in your pic counts as one of them. Even some cabadae are started with 4 or many more seeds togeather. This makes for a confusing situation because people get used to seeing these poor palms planted all on top of each other struglining to be the biggest one of the bunch! The reason they are planted like this is because they start thier life as either foliage specimens to be used indoors only or as hedge material to be used in a row all jammed togeather. Some end up as center peices and the the owners feel they should thin them out and they begin cutting trunks out, further complicating the issue.

Lutecends grown from just one seed look much different. They develope several trunks that grow away from each other and look , sometimes, very nice. Some even grow only a single trunk.

Cabada grown from one seed also grow several trunks most of the time. They look almost exactly like a lutecens from one seed but the green color of a cabadae has NO yellow color mixed in. Lanceolata is just like cabadae but its leaves are a bit more curly and the overall size of its structure is a bit smaller, leaves and trunks. Also its flowers spike is different.

Does this (ever) clear things up?

[bubba]

Ken, I remember that tall D cabdae at your house and as I remember it was thinner than these Lutes that are mainly green but robust trunks and thicker. Is that part of what I need to look for thinner trunks that are very green? Back to the drawing board but thank you for your help!

[Ken Johnson]

I'm thinkin' that a well grown cabadae may have a bigger (fatter) trunk than a well grown Luet.

We have to compaire single seed specimens to see. Anyone have a pic of a well grown, single seed, luet we can look at?