Dypsis prestoniana
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Figure 2. D. prestoniana
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Common Names:
Dypsis "Stumpy"
Conservation Status:
[[www.iucnredlist.orgsearchdetails.php38557all" Vulnerable
Distribution & Habitat:
Only 2 known populations, in rainforests of central-eastern and south-eastern Madagascar.
Description:
A large solitary palm to 12 metres tall with a very solid trunk, a browny orange and white tormentum on the leaf bases, and plumose leaves.
Cultivation:
Warm and moist.
Figure 1. D. prestoniana
Figure 3. D. prestoniana leaf detail.
Figure 4. D. prestoniana
Figure 5. D. prestoniana
Figure 6. D. prestoniana trunk base.
Contributed by:
Clayton York,
'Utopia Palms & Cycads (Figure 1,2,3,4,5&6)
