Dypsis Baronii

[Patrick Palms]

Can someone please help me? I am very confused??? In Australia,  the DypsisBaronii, is called the yellow  palm or sugar palm.  Yet here the Areca palm ior dypsis lutesens s also called the sugar palm.ir yellow  cane palm, which is true ?

[Patrick Palms]

This is the golden yellow stems of the Baronii, yet others seem green? The sugar cane palm is said to be cold hardy, more than the areca?? Does areca grow thick yellow bamboo type trunk also ??

[Neil C]

Baronii can be very variable while lutescens seems much more stable. I've only ever heard baronii called sugar cane palm or mini golden cane. Maybe you are confusing sugar cane with golden cane.

Regards Neil

 

 

 

[tim_brissy_13]

49 minutes ago, Patrick Palms said:

Can someone please help me? I am very confused??? In Australia,  the DypsisBaronii, is called the yellow  palm or sugar palm.  Yet here the Areca palm ior dypsis lutesens s also called the sugar palm.ir yellow  cane palm, which is true ?

Never read too much into common names. I’ve also seen Dypsis baronii referred to as the blue cane palm. Multiple common names can cause confusion especially when the same common names are applied to different species. 

D baronii is generally slightly smaller and slower growing than D lutescens. D baronii can have a variety of colours of the trunk and crownshaft, I’ve seen green, yellow and orange on the crown shaft while the trunk tends to be green or bluish green sometimes with a red glow on the newly exposed ring. D lutescens tend to be consistently golden on the crownshaft and newly exposed trunk while older rings on the trunk can fade to green and eventually brown on old stems. 

[Steve Mac]

Patrick,

There is no true or false with common names, they are all true or false somewhere.

That is the problem with common names. They are often only relevant in specific areas. 

That is why a lot of people try to learn and use the latin binomial where possible, and avoid the 'common' name.

A practical habit to get into.

[Patrick Palms]

The baronii is less clumping ??

[Gonzer]

Stay away from common names and your problem goes away.

[tim_brissy_13]

2 hours ago, Patrick Palms said:

The baronii is less clumping ??

Both are variable. There are solitary variants of both and densely clumping variants of both and nearly everything in between. But in general from what I’ve seen an average D baronii does tend to be less dense than an average D lutescens which also adds to its appeal in my opinion as each trunk can be appreciated. 

[Patrick Palms]

Agree

[Patrick Palms]

If you pick out a single golden cane, from the bunch, its normally sold in, will it continue a single palm, or eventually clump again?  

[joe_OC]

D baronii or D lutescens?  

If the palm was small, good chance that they both would sucker.  If the palm was large, then it might be a single variable form.