Palms
 
Dypsis perrieri![]()
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Moist slopes and valley bottoms of north eastern Madagascar.Description:
A massive, stocky, litter collecting palm, to about 8m tall, with erect leaves.General:
Litter collecting palms, as the name suggests, collect litter in the top of the palm, trapping it by the upward pointing leaves. This litter servers a built-in compost heap to nourish the plant.Culture:
Although this can become quite a large palm, it is still essentially a palm of the understory, so it prefers shade, and it also likes lots of water.
Figure 1. A small plant of D. perrieri .
Contributed by: Michael Gray
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