I took the following photos of one of my two Dypsis pusilla. I wish I could find more examples of this species, which is the smallest species (6-7') of the Vonitra group of Dypsis, along with D. crinita, fibrosa and utilis. Those three species are notable for long hairlike fibers on their often-branching stems. D. pusilla branches less often but both mine have two stems each. But what is notable about this particular palm is that one of its fronds is sending a secondary frond from the rachis. Has anyone ever seen this on a Dypsis, or any other palm, before?

Dysis pusilla, Cape Coral, FL

Reddish-bronze new red leaf in red ovals

Branching frond in red oval

Branched frond up close

 

3 hours ago, PalmatierMeg said:

Has anyone ever seen this on a Dypsis, or any other palm, before?

Something quite similar.  It usually occurs when the palm is about to split into two trunks.  I've seen it on Dypsis bef and Dypsis decipiens.  I currently have leaves on both species which are "double" at one point, meaning that there are two sets of leaflets emerging off the same rachis.  In some cases it will start this way and then at the tip spit into two distinct rachis with the leaflets opening off the two at the tip instead of sharing one like below.  I think you can find pictures here in this topic:

 

Just like @Tracy, I have a 3 sided D. bef. frond if you will. It was hard to get a good picture that showed it well. These pictures are from last November. Of course I guess that’s a little different than a “branching frond”. In any case, it’s pretty cool when our palms do something a little unusual to make then unique.

14 hours ago, The Gerg said:

Just like @Tracy, I have a 3 sided D. bef. frond if you will. It was hard to get a good picture that showed it well. These pictures are from last November. Of course I guess that’s a little different than a “branching frond”.

So you will either see a branched frond the next go round on your D bef or you will see two emerging fronds as it's about to split.  The tip split Meg displays in her photo is just an intermediate variant.