Unusual form of Dypsis ambositrae

[palmtreesforpleasure]

Does anyone else have some forms like this?

regards

Colin

[Billeb]

I wish. That thing is sweet! Dypsis grow all weird and aerial branch like that sometimes….  
.….if you’re lucky. 
 

-dale

[The Gerg]

Actually I believe this is not that uncommon for this species. Certainly very cool though.

[tim_brissy_13]

Colin, mine has just split into 2 growth points but it’s still small so won’t have that aerial branch looks when it develops trunk (about 50+ years from now at its current rate). As mentioned above, I think it’s not that uncommon for D ambositrae. 
 

Great looking palm by the way!

[Tracy]

16 hours ago, palmtreesforpleasure said:

Does anyone else have some forms like this?

The base looks a lot like a Dypsis onilahensis I have that has done that aerial splitting on 3 trunks, but both my Dypsis ambositrae have remained singles.  One is tillering along with no above ground trunk formed because of that tillering off to the side.  The other is about the size yours was when it split into two trunks, but not showing any sign of doing the splits.  Great species with the deep green leaves, white trunk and colorful brown at the base of petioles.

[DoomsDave]

Quite a number of Dypsis get those aerial "crotches" like the one on the picture, including baronii, onilahensis and others.

[Tracy]

4 hours ago, DoomsDave said:

uite a number of Dypsis get those aerial "crotches" like the one on the picture

 

21 hours ago, Billy said:

Pretty sure I saw one doing

 

22 hours ago, palmtreesforpleasure said:

Does anyone else have some forms like this?

Like the others said, Dypsis can do some strange branching.  I have only seen photos of Dypsis ambositrae splitting, but usually at ground level as opposed to aerial branching like yours has done Colin.  Like the Dypsis onilahensis hybrid below, some other species do this a lot.  This one started as 3 trunks erupting which had split at ground level.  it now has 7 trunks total; 2 split into 2 more above ground, yielding 4, and 1 split into 3 aerial trunks.  It should be pretty easy to find all 7 trunks if you look closely. 

Meanwhile Dypsis ambositrae still hasn't split; the ringed trunk is hidden by all the volunteer Aeonium.  The Aeonium migrated from my back yard into the front after the original plant flowered a couple of years back but since it provides a little shade around the base of the plant, I left it in place.