Dypsis 'laffa'

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Dypsis 'laffa'

Figure 1.

Habitat:

Madagascan rainforest

Description:

A medium sized Dypsis, with a strikingly coloured petiole, and crownshaft. A very rare palm, so little is known about its eventual size (the plants pictured are amongst the largest outside Madagascar).

General:

Some seeds of this palm came into Australia in the late 1980's, however it hasn't been seen since. It has also had no formal identification.

Figure 2.

Culture:

One of the warmer growing of the Madagascan palms, it seems to prefer the tropics to the sub-tropics.

Contributed by:

Mike Gray (Text)
Tony Huntington (Figures 1 & 2)

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