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Variability in trunk size on Dypsis leptocheilos

Tracy

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Over the weekend my wife and I were walking through a neighborhood (masks on for safety) and I noticed some very narrow looking Dypsis leptocheilos.  The day before I had a fellow palmtalker over for a garden tour and he commented on how beefy one of my Dypsis leptocheilos was.  It got me to thinking it would be an interesting post to compare growing conditions and the resultant girth on Dypsis leptocheilos.  My more mature one is growing in a long exposure spot from morning through mid afternoon and the top now is getting sun very late into the day.  It is coastal sun so not as intense as inland.  The other appears to be on track to be of similar girth although it's a little premature to assess.  Only photos of the more mature one, but I think it will be interesting to compare your D leptocheilos size and share the growing conditions whether it is similar to mine or dramatically different.  That is size 10 sandal for perspective.

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33.0782 North -117.305 West  at 72 feet elevation

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On 7/20/2020 at 2:24 PM, Tracy said:

I think it will be interesting to compare your D leptocheilos size and share the growing conditions whether it is similar to mine or dramatically different.

No one has any scrawny trunked lepto's to share???  What about a real fatty chunky one?  Is this species really that ho-hum?  I find it both :bemused: and :interesting: that there weren't any responses.

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33.0782 North -117.305 West  at 72 feet elevation

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@Tracy yike a Rooney I’m embarrassed to have missed this

Leptos do seem to be sensitive to environment. Austere places are not their thing they like a nice warm and moist place.

 Here’s my two biggest with the size 13 Shoe 

And gawking into the crowns

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And I also happen to have another in a much less favorable location.

That's a Roystonea princeps on the right. They've been in place about 10 years.

The bigger ones in the previous post were planted in 2005.

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IT's PURRING!

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A few from the Remarkable Palms of Tampa Bay thread:

One at City Hall here in town with a relatively robust stature.  I previously thought it might be a lastelliana, but I'm leaning hard the other way right now:

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A younger one that may stay a little skinnier near Lake Hollingsworth:

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This one is getting pretty thick, but wasn't so much as a youth.

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Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone 1990: 9a  2012: 9b  2023: 10a | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a

30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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 Well here is mine, over 10 yrs in the ground, but in heavy shade at any time of the year.

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It does show the necessity for a lot of light.

 

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Cheers Steve

It is not dead, it is just senescence.

   

 

 

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Here's one of mine on the right.... 

 

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Riverside, CA Z 9b

1700 ft. elevation

approx 40 miles inland

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7 hours ago, doubravsky said:

Here's one of mine on the right.... 

 

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maybe just post a pic?

 

Couldn't get that to work . . . foaming at the mouth to see!

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Weird... ok here’s a couple

pics:

 

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I didn’t have a shoe- so here’s my

size 10 foot for comparison :) 

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Dave

 

Riverside, CA Z 9b

1700 ft. elevation

approx 40 miles inland

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2 hours ago, doubravsky said:

Weird... ok here’s a couple

pics:

 

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I didn’t have a shoe- so here’s my

size 10 foot for comparison :) 

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Any chance you could get a shot of the crown and leaves too? I wanted to plant two teddys (teddies?) next to each other just like that!

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Tracy's plant is very "beefy" compared to what is growing at my house, and others I've seen around.

Len's are certainly beefy but well over his roof line.

I have six planted out in solid clay and they are much smaller in stature..

Size 11 sandal for scale

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