Dypsis ampasindavae

[TomJ]

Here's my smaller mini-me

[JubaeaMan138]

44 minutes ago, TomJ said:

Here's my smaller mini-me

Killer mine seems about the same size is that full shade ? 

[TomJ]

17 hours ago, JubaeaMan138 said:

Killer mine seems about the same size is that full shade ? 

Pretty much.

It does get some filtered light throughout the day.

[Billeb]

Well….looked at the plant this morning and it appears to have cracked open its spear. I was fearing it was not Ampasindavae and had a couple other PT’rs state their opinion on the ID. I thought possibly another form of Prestoniana like OCWS. It’s ID relied heavily on whether it pushed a colored frond or not so it was a bit of a waiting game. Drumroll…….
 

 

 

Still not 100% it’s Ampasindavae but all the possible ID’s id be ok with had a colored leaf so it’s good news and I’m super stoked about it. 
 

-dale 

[John hovancsek]

[realarch]

Missed the latest posts in this thread, looking good everyone. 

Dale, back in the early 2000’s I had never even heard of this palm, available species were a bit limited, at least for a newbie like me.

Yours looks like the type, with the new colored leaf. You know, mine used to throw the new red/orange leaf, but it’s been awhile since it’s done that. I wonder if I’ve just missed it or if the palm grows out of that stage. 

I’ve posted these photos before, somewhere on PT, but here they are again.

Tim

[Billeb]

Tim,

id be happy if it looks 1/2 as good as yours. Again, not sure WTF it is but the fact it has a tinted leaf is a good thing in my book. 
 

-dale 

[TomJ]

Not the big island, only getting one leaf a year, and it's worth the wait....

[Billeb]

On 10/3/2024 at 11:37 AM, TomJ said:

Not the big island, only getting one leaf a year, and it's worth the wait....

Just like @TomJ says, this palm is painfully slow here in SoCal. It’s been slightly over a year since last post and I’m just getting a new spear. It doesn’t look good either but it’s not dead so I’m going to roll with it. 
 

-dale 

[D. Morrowii]

I finally planted this one out in August of 24 so just about 7 months in the ground. This area can flood so I mounded it up more than a foot, surrounded it with a liner I cut down and topped of with turface. It took a lot of sun last summer and didn’t hate it but it didn’t love it. Still has a lime green instead of the dark green it had in the pot.