Dypsis ambositrae crownshaft

[Central Floridave]

photo of ambositrae crownshaft is very pretty.

[Walter John]

Very nice, just reefed off the old leaves I see, it's tricky on ambositrae, they hug in tight.

[Jeff Searle]

Dave,

 This palm is known only as Dypsis sp. Fine Leaf. It's not the true D. ambositrae. I do like the crown on this one.

Jeff

[SunnyFl]

(Wal @ Feb. 25 2007,15:39)

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Very nice, just reefed off the old leaves I see, it's tricky on ambositrae, they hug in tight.

They're like that on my fine-leaf (which is what Dave's palm probably is).  I wanted to remove the old bases but wasn't sure I could without accidentally harming the palms.  So I left them on.

Dave, that's a really nice crownshaft.

Btw, my fine-leafs recovered from the mystery-blight they caught last summer.  Wonder if they'll be all right now, or if they'll suffer again, in the humidity of summer.  Hm.

[Central Floridave]

Thanks.

I'm aware of fine leaf versus ambositrae debate, but I haven't seen anything official of the name change.    This would be the fine leaf version of the ambositrae in that debate.

I didn't realize they get the peach fuzz color.  I hope mine get like that when they get older. The fronds do like to hold on for dear life.  This palm is from the recent Florida Tech Botanical Fest from GTC Palms Inc of Brevard.

[SunnyFl]

(Central Floridave @ Feb. 26 2007,18:31)

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Thanks.

I'm aware of fine leaf versus ambositrae debate, but I haven't seen anything official of the name change.    This would be the fine leaf version of the ambositrae in that debate.

I didn't realize they get the peach fuzz color.  I hope mine get like that when they get older. The fronds do like to hold on for dear life.  This palm is from the recent Florida Tech Botanical Fest from GTC Palms Inc of Brevard.

Oh, you mean the event this past Saturday?  Waaahhhhhhhh!!!   I wanted to go so badly, hoping to pick up a couple of things from GTC - aren't they cool - and they had some lovelies on their plant list.  But last week, I caught the Bug That's Going Around, and thanks to my wonderful job, I got sicker by the weekend.  I'm now trying like heck to get rid of it before Saturday (the long-awaited Rainforest Collection sale at Searles, can't wait).

I got my fine-leafs from Okie & Neil too (GTC).  We visited them in Brevard a year ago (couldn't believe how COLD it was up there!) - they have such nice palms.  Did they bring any of their single trunking D. lutescens to the FIT event?  Those palms are awesome, never saw a lutescens as beautiful as theirs.

[SubTropicRay]

Beautiful palm.

[Fred Zone 10A]

I wanted to remove the old bases but wasn't sure I could without accidentally harming the palms.  So I left them on.

You did best to leave them alone.  I've noted that the old leaf bases of this species cling very tenaciously to the trunk.  If you try to pry them off like you can with an Archontophoenix, they will damage the lovely green trunk.  When the crownshafts are ready, they will fall off by themselves.