Dypsis remotifolia

[palmtreesforpleasure]

Here is another small Dypsis

regards

colin

[paulgila]

very nice!i've got one a bit smaller.

[ellidro]

Colin,

What a nice looking little dypsis.  How cold hardy is it? Do you think it's growable in  coastal San Diego?

[palmtreesforpleasure]

It should grow in  coastal San Diego, i have a few around the garden and it appears to be cold hardy

regards

colin

[ellidro]

Is this the same plant as dypsis remitiflora?

[paulgila]

i live by sdsu.no apparent freeze damage.it is a shady spot near the house.

[palmtreesforpleasure]

thanks Ellidro

It is Dypsis remotiflora sorry my typo error

regards

colin

[ellidro]

Sounds promising! Now I have to find one! Thanks Paul and Colin

[Matt in SD]

That looks like the palm that I got from Jerry Anderson under the name Dypsis 'menalaingo', pretty sure it's the same (and it's the palm in my avator).  I've had mine in the ground here for a little over 2 years now and it has done extremely well , grows steadily through the winter.  

I have no idea if this is really Dypsis remotiflora or not.  The description says the leaves are 40 cm, mine are definitely no more than 25 cm and my palm has about 2 feet of bare trunk (stem?).  The last couple leaves have split now though so it has 2-3 leaflets per side.  Maybe the leaves will get longer.

Matt

[Howeadypsis]

wow I'd never have thought that was a Dypsis! Looks like a Chamedorea! Cool plant!

[Walter John]

Yours is looking good Col, mine is so so. Here it is in the wheelbarrow of love. Night shots taken a few minutes ago.

I can't leave a post without putting in the max number of 4 good sized photos so here's a random selection from around the jungle.

Pritchardia martii aka gaudi chaudi

Cocothrinax barbadensis aka alta

Satakentia liukiuensis

[Breadfruit Bill]

That little dypsis is stunning!  Makes me want one and I am out of space!

[Howeadypsis]

Nice plants you got Wal!

[Matt in SD]

Wal,

Nice photos.  Was that little Dypsis sold to you as Dypsis remotiflora?  It looks to me like a different species from waht Colin posted and what I have.  So much Dypsis confusion.

Matt

[DoomsDave]

That little D is adorable!

Hmm.  When my canopy grows, so will my collection of understory palms . . . .

dave

[Matt in SD]

Here's my little guy, sorry for the sort of blurry photo.  This photo is from mid-December, as I said it grows all winter.  And you can see the previous leaf is divided on one side, and there is one pair of narrow leaflets right at the start of the leaf.

[SubTropicRay]

Nice specimens and photos.

[Utopia Palms]

Hi all

I must say that the species sold under this name Dypsis remotiflora looks to be true to type, although they are only just now starting to flower, they look the same as a species sold to me as D.forficifolia which have been flowering now for a few years, and are not true to type but are very similar looking plants. Also to make things a little harder they look VERY similar to D.lantzeana. Although the inflorescence and stems are a little different, D.remotiflora stems look like painted bamboo and are in every way just as spectacular as the red entire leafs of the juveniles in this species.

Sorry Colin but as Matt has said the leaves will start to divide, once the plant is around 2ft tall some do take a little longer though, they seem to like a damp spot to grow best and will clump up quite thick, up to at least ten stems! Please note that there are at least 5 of these dypsis species that all look the same for the first 5 or so years then you can start to see small differences, it would be impossible to tell the true species name on some of this group until they flower even then its very hard.

Here are some photos of what I think is the same species and some of the ones that came in under the name D. remotiflora.

Ps Matt the dypsis in your last post does it have a very thick leaf?

If so it COULD be Dypsis coriacea I will list a photo of this for you after the ones I think to be D. remotiflora, like I have said there are at least 5 or more species that look very similar at this size and are very hard to tell apart until they are flowering.

This photo is of a mature what i think to be D. remotiflora. Please note it looked very similar to Matt’s plant when it was small but with very thin leaves. (Not thick like the feel of a leathery leaf) ???

[Utopia Palms]

Another photo of D.remotiflora.

[Utopia Palms]

One more note that they can clump up quite thickly with a little age.

[Utopia Palms]

Here is a photo taken at Bill Beattie place in north QLD. Of Dypsis coriacea.

What do you think Matt?

[palmtreesforpleasure]

Looking forward to seeing it grow into the palm  pictured above

regards

colin

[Matt in SD]

Clayton,

The leaves are very thick.  It also has shown no signs of clumping, at least not yet.  I've considered coriacea, but the leaf looks different than the photo in POM both in shape and then vein pattern.  I did just buy a D coriacea 'read leaf form' seedling from Jerry so we'll so how this compared as it grows up.

By the way, Jeff Searle posted this photo from his trip and I believe it was from Ile St. Marie.  This looks exactly like my palm, right down to the narrow basal leaflets.

Does the location narrow it down at all Clayton?  I'll check POM tonight.

Matt

[Utopia Palms]

Hi Matt,

Jeff.S was with Bill.B on that trip I'm sure he would know what this photo is of! JEFF can you put a name on that photo for us? It does look like D. coriacea to me also these as you have noticed do not seem to clump up very much Bill's one is about 4ft tall and is only just making a few new off suits now.The thick leaf is the easiest way to tell this species as a young plant. Here is one more photo from Bill's place

Clayton

[Jeff Searle]

Clayton, Matt,

   No, I can't even begin to put a name on it, or many of these others that look similar to each other. Sometimes there's no flowers to help!! It's way too hard, and not nearly enough time when your constantly moving on the trail. Some palms are much easier to ID than others. You do alot of ......just shake your head and have no idea, and keep walking.

Jeff

[John Dransfield]

Several Dypsis species look like those illustrated in this thread. D. remotiflora has very distinctive highly branched inflorescences with incredibly thin rachillae with very distant flowers. I have yet to see any photos that convince me that is it is in cultivation. When your plants flower you will need to check how many (3 or 6) and where the stamens are positioned (whether opposite the sepals or the petals, and the degree of hairyness of the rachillae.

John

[eastern.nurseries]

Yeh , they all look the same to me just like those  rhapis palms do.

[Moose]

Sweet - would love to see them mature now.