Pronunciation: DIP-siss fah-sick-kew-LAH-tuh
Common Name: none
Dypsis fasciculata is not a commonly grown palm in California, but it seems to have surprising hardiness and perhaps should be tried more often. It is a somewhat colorful understory palm that is either solitary (usually) or offsetting.
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Appearance and Biology
- Habit: solitary or, less often, clustering with a vertical crown of 5-6 feather leaves
- Height: 10'
- Trunk: single to multiple; 1/2"-1" thick; ringed; mottled; pale green with more newly exposed nodes dark reddish-brown
- Crownshaft: 6" tall; same diameter as stem below; pale green with red-brown flecking
- Spread: 1'-2'
- Leaf Description: pinnate; 1'-2' long; flat; horizontally oriented; in young plants leaves very irregularly arranged leaflets with larger leaflets near stem; as palm ages, leaflets more evenly sized; leaflets arrange along rachis in clusters of 4-6 or more; leaflets leathery and ridged; rachis pale green distally but grayish and somewhat mottled proximally
- Petiole/Leaf bases: very short to nonexistent
- Reproduction: monoecious
- Inflorescence: among the leaves; 2' long, mostly skinny peduncle; moderately branched
- Fruit: ovoid; 1/2" long
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Horticultural Characteristics
- Minimum Temp: 26F
- Drought Tolerance: poor
- Dry Heat Tolerance: moderate
- Cool Tolerance: moderate
- Wind Tolerance: poor
- Salt Tolerance: unknown
- Growth Rate: slow
- Soil Preference: well draining and rich; moist
- Light Requirement: filtered sun to shade
- Human Hazards: none
- Disease or Horticultural Problems: none
- Transplants?: transplants fairly easily
- Indoor?: fair but mealy bugs like
- Availability: rare
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