Dypsis???

[Caryota_gigas]

Attached are pics of a Dypsis I recently got at a sale that I am unsure of. It has a very deep purple/ red stem/petiole/rachis and rather fine leaflets. It also has some glaucous colourings as can be seen in the pics. It seems a promising Palm outdoors here and I would very much like to know what it is, as it is hard to find many Dypsis that will survive outdoors here.

[Caryota_gigas]

Any help on this species would be much appreciated.

[ellidro]

Looks very similar to what I believe to be the true dypsis ambositrae!  It has a heel, recurved leaves, a red petiole and rachis.  Where did you get it from, that may help with the ID.  Here is a pic of a plant I bought as dypsis ambositrae.

[Caryota_gigas]

It could be D. ambositrae But the plants I have as D. ambositrae look like the one in your pic and the pic below, but this plant on the left is very dark in colour. Could be just variation, but the leaf bases also seem different.

I am in Auckland New Zealand.

[Jason in Orlando]

Looks somewhat similar to D. sp. "Mayotte," but the pinnae appear to be more numerous and thinner.

Jason

[JD in the OC]

If you were to show me just the one large leaf on that plant, i would say Dypsis leptocheilos.  But then when you see them stem, there is no way it could be.

Maybe dypsis leptocheilos x cabadae?

JD

[cfkingfish]

It looks somewhat like D. sp. "Mayotte", and does have the color of many Comoran Dypsis (cabadae, lanceolata). The leaflet size and arrangement does look like that of the plants sold under the name of D. bejofo (the non-plumose form).

[ellidro]

I think you are correct in your theeory on color variation.  My Dypsis Ambositraes have a wide variety of colors ranging from dark red to green.  Here is a pic of a smaller ambositrae that looks very similar to the coloration in your plant.  I think the color fades to more green as the plant gets older.  The color in the petiole and rachis also fade as the plant pushes a new spear.

[Caryota_gigas]

You may be right. Mine does just look like a darker coloured specimen of the plant you have shown.

I hope out of all the D. ambositrae I have that some of them are the "real" ones. Assuming that there are some real ones out there somewhere. If not, it is at least a very nice looking Dypsis that shows some promising tolerence to cold.

[MattyB]

I thought D. sp. Mayotte also.

[deezpalms]

Not a D. sp. mayotte. The leaves on mayotte are more like lanceolata much wider. Those leaflets look more like a teddy bear to me which has very different leaflets then a mayotte.

[osideterry]

Dave: Ever thought of changing your posting ID from "Deezpalms" to "Dypsis Dave"?

[Dypsisdean]

HEY!!!

[paulgila]

have to agree with deez--wider leaflets on a mayotte.

[richnorm]

I have one from the same batch of seed.  Was sold to me as a lepto which clearly it is not.    The fronds are not as recurved as my first "ambositrae".   I have since bought others one of which looks to have some baronii in it (ie not tillering) so perhaps dypsis hybridise quite readily in the wild it is a hybrid as suggested?

[JD in the OC]

dypsis leptocheilos x cabadae

[Moose]

Hmmmm, not so sure?