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Dypsis ambositrae. THE REAL AMBOSITRA PALM


Alberto

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Are there data about cold /frost hardiness of the D.ambositrae?

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

 

I am seeking for cold hardy palms!

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I had several 1 gallon plants in the ground this past winter that saw a low of 31 and 3-4 nights of light frost and they showed no damage at that point.

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Mine saw -2 this winter and was untouched by the cold, several nights of -1 and 0 also.

Peachy

I came. I saw. I purchased

 

 

27.35 south.

Warm subtropical, with occasional frosts.

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  • 2 years later...

I had three VERY small palms in ground in 2007.... no damage at all with temps 26-28. No damage in the five years since.... this palm is pretty hardy for a dypsis!

Dave

 

Riverside, CA Z 9b

1700 ft. elevation

approx 40 miles inland

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I had three VERY small palms in ground in 2007.... no damage at all with temps 26-28. No damage in the five years since.... this palm is pretty hardy for a dypsis!

Thanks for posting that. This is perhaps the best dypsis for me up North, it really grows well.

Dave, you forgot to tell people how you got snow in 2007 at 1700 feet, and how your entire yard away from your heated pool turned brown, not to mention the dypsis plumosa growing in the bunch below got killed whereas the ambositrae survived just fine. That says a lot.

Proof of how nice Dave's ambositrae are, I just saw them yesterday:

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  • 1 month later...

Small 1gal seedling in pot. Left out exposed to the cold but stayed dry under shelter. My thermometer saw 23 but my guess this one saw somewhere between 24-26 degrees. Around 9 freezing hours total. Pot froze solid. Zero damage.

Tyler

Coastal Zone 9a

''Karma is a good girl, she just treats you exactly how you treat her"

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Small 1gal seedling in pot. Left out exposed to the cold but stayed dry under shelter. My thermometer saw 23 but my guess this one saw somewhere between 24-26 degrees. Around 9 freezing hours total. Pot froze solid. Zero damage.

Ahhhh, nice to hear that, I'm pretty sure this is the hardiest dypsis next to decipiens based on my own observations.

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Small 1gal seedling in pot. Left out exposed to the cold but stayed dry under shelter. My thermometer saw 23 but my guess this one saw somewhere between 24-26 degrees. Around 9 freezing hours total. Pot froze solid. Zero damage.

Ahhhh, nice to hear that, I'm pretty sure this is the hardiest dypsis next to decipiens based on my own observations.

Yeah I intentionally left out one of my small seedlings to see how it would handle some cold, but our temps ended up dropping way below the forecast. I brought it inside the next morning thinking it was toast but low and behold never showed any signs of damage.Definitely thinking it could have endured a longer freeze duration and maybe lower temperatures. Based on what I have read with these, I am believing these show some variability with the cold.

Tyler

Coastal Zone 9a

''Karma is a good girl, she just treats you exactly how you treat her"

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I'm assuming that by real you mean from Madagascar seed and not the fine leaf form.? Floribunda?

David Simms zone 9a on Highway 30a

200 steps from the Gulf in NW Florida

30 ft. elevation and sandy soil

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I'm assuming that by real you mean from Madagascar seed and not the fine leaf form.? Floribunda?

Real as in not Dypsis plumosa, which was sold as ambositrae a while back.

Tyler

Coastal Zone 9a

''Karma is a good girl, she just treats you exactly how you treat her"

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  • 11 months later...

3ft ambo in the ground...had some sun stress prior to freeze. One night at 23 degrees and it's defoliated. Spear still green and looks to be opening healthy. Bet if it was 100% from the start damage would have been a lot less.

Tyler

Coastal Zone 9a

''Karma is a good girl, she just treats you exactly how you treat her"

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  • 7 years later...

Significant damage to trees under cover at 27 degrees only one night, second was 28-29..  Spear ok, and proximal petioles ok, but leaves fried about half way through.  Damage appeared about 3-5 days later.  So, it will recover, but these were 7-9 feet tall and healthy & happy.  New spears already growing.  Cecile

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7 hours ago, SHEP said:

Significant damage to trees under cover at 27 degrees only one night, second was 28-29..  Spear ok, and proximal petioles ok, but leaves fried about half way through.  Damage appeared about 3-5 days later.  So, it will recover, but these were 7-9 feet tall and healthy & happy.  New spears already growing.  Cecile

Good to know. I have a very small one in the ground in Vallejo. We also hit 27F in a stretch of four nights that dropped below freezing several weeks ago. But the one I have, I covered completely with a bucket so it's fine.

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No damage to the 2' tall Ambo next to fence, in a raised bed, it had a Frost cloth over posts, which extended to ground, with no damage.  My other multi-trunked drop dead gorgeous Ambo looks terrible.  I will have to take out.  Cecile

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