Dypsis pilulifera and another big Dypsis Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney

[palmtreesforpleasure]

A few pictures from last Monday

Dypsis pilulifera 2 stems,  Chambeyronia sp houailou and a bit Dypsis that has been named many times by lots of palm collectors form Australia, America, Hawaii

all with a different opinion.

[DiegoGM]

The big one is a D. Robusta?

 

the pirulifera are amazing. I bought two small this years when i saw this palm growing in New Zealand. It seems to be a succesfull dypsis in frost free temperate climates.

[John hovancsek]

The big one really looks like dark melybug 

[tim_brissy_13]

Hi Colin,

 

Everything has grown so much in the couple of years since I’ve visited. It looks like the D pilulifera are D ‘orange crush’. I’m pretty sure the latest update was that D pilulifera is now assigned to the palm previously known as D ‘Jurassic Park’. 
 

I know the unknown Dypsis in the photos well, it’s one of my favourites in the gardens. I’ve always assumed it must be D robusta. To me, it looks a lot like the ones at Mt Cootha which were known as D ‘stumpy’ for years until the D robusta name was assigned. It is huge!

[palmtreesforpleasure]

8 hours ago, DiegoGM said:

The big one is a D. Robusta?

 

the pirulifera are amazing. I bought two small this years when i saw this palm growing in New Zealand. It seems to be a succesfull dypsis in frost free temperate climates.

Hello Diego, 

Would the Dypsis pilulifera grow in Coastal Valencia in warm microclimate, might be worth a try

regards

Colin

[palmtreesforpleasure]

Hi Tim

I looked up the Kew List and it does not show Sp Jurassic park as a Synonym.

The Dypsis Jurassic park look very different to the Pilulifera in Sydney planted in RSBG,

Can anyone else give me some feedback so i can update the Gardens records

thank you

regards

Colin

3 hours ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

Hi Colin,

 

Everything has grown so much in the couple of years since I’ve visited. It looks like the D pilulifera are D ‘orange crush’. I’m pretty sure the latest update was that D pilulifera is now assigned to the palm previously known as D ‘Jurassic Park’. 
 

I know the unknown Dypsis in the photos well, it’s one of my favourites in the gardens. I’ve always assumed it must be D robusta. To me, it looks a lot like the ones at Mt Cootha which were known as D ‘stumpy’ for years until the D robusta name was assigned. It is huge!

 

[palmtreesforpleasure]

7 hours ago, John hovancsek said:

The big one really looks like dark melybug 

Hello John

The mystery of Dypsis species names and name changers continues

regards

Colin

[DiegoGM]

43 minutes ago, palmtreesforpleasure said:

Hello Diego, 

Would the Dypsis pilulifera grow in Coastal Valencia in warm microclimate, might be worth a try

regards

Colin

I think so. Valencia is so much warmer than my place or NZ. The problem there could be the summer sun and the alcaline water, but definitely its a must try!

May by after 10 years in a greenhouse they can go to the ground. They are sooooo slow outside the tropics.

[palmtreesforpleasure]

11 hours ago, DiegoGM said:

I think so. Valencia is so much warmer than my place or NZ. The problem there could be the summer sun and the alcaline water, but definitely its a must try!

May by after 10 years in a greenhouse they can go to the ground. They are sooooo slow outside the tropics.

They are only 12 years  old, grown quickly in Sydneym 200 years of mulched soil probably helps

regards

Colin

[DiegoGM]

This species grows well in tropical and subtropical climates like sydney, but they are slow in the warm temperate! They barely grows thought our cool and rainy winters. Maybe my grandsons could see a tall palm growing here some day!

[colin Peters]

aloha Colin, 

We went to the gardens a couple of years ago, thought I was in Hawaii, the variety was really cool, would love to go back to Sydney again.  went just

for 2 days, I work for Hawaiian airlines so can travel and go away for just the weekend. pretty cool.  aloha