Should this be classified as a weed species?

[Daryl]

I hope not!

These seedlings look healthy considering our drought and no supplemental watering

[Tropicgardener]

Quick delete the photo before some native Nazi sees it and decides that Dypsis decaryi must become a Class 1 weed

[Daryl]

It'll be a Triangle forest in no time!

[Tropicgardener]

That will look very cool !!

[richnorm]

Just to be sure the whole genus, no whole family should be banned forthwith.

[Moose]

Proof that many of us over water these palms. Triangles should get no supplemental irrigation in Florida.

[MattyB]

I've been very surprised at how drought tolerant these palms are. And mine are planted on rocky soil, get baked by all day sun, and get a little bit of hose water once every 3 weeks in summer and none the rest of the year.

[Peter G]

One of the best grown palms in Perth.

[Josh-O]

[Brad Mondel]

Drastic measures should be taken to eradicate this invasive and noxious weed from our delicate ecosystem.

[Jose Maria]

In Costa Rica I have seen Roystoneas having their seeds carried around by parrots over hundreds of meters, and small palms appearing in gardens , sometimes left by the owners to be part of the landscaping.

Also Pinanga coronata , finding little tree growing in a forest at distance from the "mother "plant, probably also distributed by wildlife.

And a big garden , run over by Rhopaloblaste seedlings.

And also worth mentioning: the "wilding" of oil-palm (Elaeis guineensis) in forests miles away from plantations, also must be birds carrying the seeds.All kinds of birds enjoy eating oil-palm fruits.

None of these species of palms are native here, one could say these species are invasive..... but to name them "weeds" ....IMO, weeds have more to do with farming.

[KrisKupsch]

Its "selective weedism"....humanity is a strange force...Palms with thorns will be on the Nazis radar first ie Phoenix species.

I expect over the next couple hundred years Australia will inherit over 50 new Palm taxon through naturalising.

I bet Australian Palms are spreading OS especially Archontophoenix species.

Its a changing world - hurry up and get use to that.

[Tyrone]

One of the best grown palms in Perth.

Yes that's for sure. They thrive on neglect.

[Tyrone]

Its "selective weedism"....humanity is a strange force...Palms with thorns will be on the Nazis radar first ie Phoenix species.

I expect over the next couple hundred years Australia will inherit over 50 new Palm taxon through naturalising.

I bet Australian Palms are spreading OS especially Archontophoenix species.

Its a changing world - hurry up and get use to that.

Ahh, the weed Nazi's. It never ceases to amaze me how, just because someone in Hawaii for example puts out a scientific paper about a particular species being invasive there, that the WA authorities will seize this scrap of info and then try and ban import into WA with a VASTLY different climate, where getting things to survive in the first place can be hard enough, let alone the species becoming invasive. You should see the Heliconias banned for import. WA doesn't even have tropical rain forests to invade.

Often the weed Nazi's only believe in planting natives, and one of the inaccuracies they'll push is that only natives attract wild life and birds. This isn't true. If you introduce biodiversity into a garden with exotics, it will create more homes for birds and wildlife as much as any native garden would.

I hope no one reads this thread and actually thinks Dypsis decaryi is a weed. I've always thought that any critically endangered plant should be exempt from weed status classification. Loss of species and biodiversity is a worldwide problem not just something that happens in someone else's backyard.

[Pip]

I like your thinking Tyrone. Those are my thoughts too.

[Brad Mondel]

I hope no one was actually taking me seriously

[richnorm]

Ha, in NZ even some native plants are being declared weeds for growing in the "wrong place"!

[Tyrone]

Ha, in NZ even some native plants are being declared weeds for growing in the "wrong place"!

That even happens here. Mention "Sydney Wattle" here and it gets people fired up. Trouble is the Sydney Wattle looks almost the same as the very rare local wattle and over zealous and undertrained individuals are ripping them out.

[Jose Maria]

Tyrone is right .Weeds are for farmers....

And American birds like Australian palm fruits.

I have a clump of Ptychosperma macarthurii , Australian palm ( I planted myself from a seedling "found" in a Botanical garden), about 20 years old and it´s always full of fruits. Local birds never leave it alone and all over the place I find seedlings.Some I give away to neighbours.

Now I am waiting for a large Wodyetia to start flowering.