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Dypsis lutescens


Utopia Palms

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Here are a few photos of some golden canes and there crazy branching habit, i'm sure most of the members have photos of some of the branching habits of dypsis lutescens to add to these,

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Sunshine Coast Queensland Australia

Minimum 3.C -------- maximum 43.C Average Annual Rainfall 1700mm

IPS Membership since 1991

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This one was a single stem, then made 3 trunks.

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Sunshine Coast Queensland Australia

Minimum 3.C -------- maximum 43.C Average Annual Rainfall 1700mm

IPS Membership since 1991

PLANT MORE PALMS TO SOOTH THE SOUL

www.utopiapalmsandcycads.com

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Wish i had a camera today, i saw a bunch of D. lutescens in Hervey bay not the best looking palms quite neglected but a large amount where branching mostly small shoots but in large numbers up to five from one stem.

One main branch even had a shoot branching off then another one off that one.

Although i must add most of the branches seemed stunted.

I asume the branching is mostly a genetic thing, however of interest was the height at which the branching was mostly occuring at about 5ft from the ground.

Which got me thinking why so high?

When the genetics are already there, could the amount of branching be influenced by growing conditions?

With the branching -possibly only starting once the palm had gone from a good growing conditions to not so good in the same way plants can flower under stress???

Or through selecting the palms showing the most branching through a number of generations, could it be possible to breed a very branchy palm?

Sunshine Coast

Queensland

Australia

Subtropical climate

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Neat stuff Clayton.  Despite being an ubiquitous palm, it is still one of my favorites.

Tampa, Interbay Peninsula, Florida, USA

subtropical USDA Zone 10A

Bokeelia, Pine Island, Florida, USA

subtropical USDA Zone 10B

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Clayton,

    Thanks for sharing the" freaks".

Jeff

Searle Brothers Nursery Inc.

and The Rainforest Collection.

Southwest Ranches,Fl.

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After cleaning up out front of the nursery earlier this week , some strange branching became evident on a clump .

Heres the usual branching often seen .

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Michael in palm paradise,

Tully, wet tropics in Australia, over 4 meters of rain every year.

Home of the Golden Gumboot, its over 8m high , our record annual rainfall.

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This stem wanted to grow roots before branching !

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Michael in palm paradise,

Tully, wet tropics in Australia, over 4 meters of rain every year.

Home of the Golden Gumboot, its over 8m high , our record annual rainfall.

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roots , shoots and then leaves  :P

this must have happened during Larry .

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Michael in palm paradise,

Tully, wet tropics in Australia, over 4 meters of rain every year.

Home of the Golden Gumboot, its over 8m high , our record annual rainfall.

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Not a golden cane but a Dypsis 'aff madagascariensis' that I bought off you a couple of years ago Clayton.  It has regular suckers and now this branch that now wants to curl and twist before it grows down into the ground...

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Gold Coast, Queensland Latitude 28S. Mild, Humid Subtropical climate. Rainfall - not consistent enough!

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