Palms   Dypsis baronii

Synonymy:
Neodypsis baronii ,
Neodypsis compactus ,
Chrysalidocarpus proprinquus

Common Names:
None

Habitat:
Madagascan rainforest, usually on the east coast.

Description:
Medium sized (to about 6m) usually clumping, but occasionally single trunked palm. Very similar to the Golden Cane Palm ( D. lutescens ), but a bit smaller, and more elegant. Quite variable, and very attractive.

General:
One of the most cold tolerant of the Madagascan palms. Deserves to be much more widely grown than it is, in view of its attractiveness, and cold tolerance.

Culture:
Can be a bit difficult, but usually prefers a lightly shaded, moist, but well drained position. As mentioned above, quite untroubled by even several degrees of frost.

Figure 1. D. baronii in south-east Queensland.

Figure 2. Looking into the leaves of D. baronii .

Contributed by:

Michael Gray

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