Dypsis plumosa flowering

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The old plumosa is in flower again, aka fakey. Sold originally as ambositrae in Australia when it was first introduced about 30 years ago. A super tough dypsis this one dry tolerant cool tolerant and grower tolerant! I do get viable seeds that are a very nice looking seedling. Easy to grow and germinate. 

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Last seasons seed!

[peachy]

I remember when every second Dypsis changed names on a monthly basis, if it ever had a confirmed name to begin with. It got so confusing that I turned on the whole genera and wouldn't even look at a palm for sale if it had Dypsis on the label.  My aversion lasted until I moved house actually, silly in hindsight as I might have had some spectacular potted palms to bring with me. After my D leptocheilos (teddy bear) grew so quickly and looked so gorgeous, I revised my opinion and now have a few Dypsis in the shade house, including a pretty D plumosa I bought at the palm show in March. Yours look huge,  I never knew they got that big but as I will be dead and gone by the time mine is that size I am planting it regardless.

Peachy

[Harry’s Palms]

I’m with you , @peachy , this name change thing with these is hard to keep up with. When I planted my Triangle palms in the late 90’s , they were Neodypsis . Then it changed to Dypsis so I put new tags . Now it is Chrysalidiocarpus! I ain’t changing the tags , same with my Lanceolata . I just recently started getting into this genus so , to me , everything is “Dypsis” . Harry

[Harry’s Palms]

Nice looking Dypsis Plumosa , Richard . I love how the seedlings have that color. Harry

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7 hours ago, peachy said:

I remember when every second Dypsis changed names on a monthly basis, if it ever had a confirmed name to begin with. It got so confusing that I turned on the whole genera and wouldn't even look at a palm for sale if it had Dypsis on the label.  My aversion lasted until I moved house actually, silly in hindsight as I might have had some spectacular potted palms to bring with me. After my D leptocheilos (teddy bear) grew so quickly and looked so gorgeous, I revised my opinion and now have a few Dypsis in the shade house, including a pretty D plumosa I bought at the palm show in March. Yours look huge,  I never knew they got that big but as I will be dead and gone by the time mine is that size I am planting it regardless.

Peachy

I love the small dypsis genus, the bigger ones have some monsters in that group, they go changing names as far as iam concerned i brought a dypsis it stays as a dypsis, and most of us in palm talk know that when we say dypsis we know it’s a chance it has its name changed, two or three times in some cases. Either way there a fantastic genus dypsis or chryso or however you spell it dypsis is easier to type.

Richard 

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4 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

I’m with you , @peachy , this name change thing with these is hard to keep up with. When I planted my Triangle palms in the late 90’s , they were Neodypsis . Then it changed to Dypsis so I put new tags . Now it is Chrysalidiocarpus! I ain’t changing the tags , same with my Lanceolata . I just recently started getting into this genus so , to me , everything is “Dypsis” . Harry

The small dypsis are another story all together magical palms up there with chamaedoreas, possibly better and even rarer to obtain. They will always be dypsis nomenclature and science they go hand in hand. I do recognise the work that is involved in in looking through a microscopic and discovering a new genus and for valid reasons they are different, but some only a minuscule difference between them, and that is fair enough not everyone can understand the work involved in it. A bit like sharpening tools for spaceships or nasa it’s not rocket science but……….

Richard 

[tim_brissy_13]

At the risk of annoying everyone…it’s now Chrysalidocarpus plumosus. For what it worth I planted a couple of these in Melbourne years ago at a relative’s house. They didn’t do well. C baronii and C onilahensis planted in the same garden are still going strong so they aren’t up there with the hardiest of Chrysalidocarpus but clearly well suited so the sub tropics and probably warmer temperate climates. 

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8 minutes ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

At the risk of annoying everyone…it’s now Chrysalidocarpus plumosus. For what it worth I planted a couple of these in Melbourne years ago at a relative’s house. They didn’t do well. C baronii and C onilahensis planted in the same garden are still going strong so they aren’t up there with the hardiest of Chrysalidocarpus but clearly well suited so the sub tropics and probably warmer temperate climates. 

They do like the heat. Sunny warm Melbourne just to long of a cold season. Plant more ceroxylon I say! I failed English so dypsis is easy to spell🤣