Pronunciation: DIP-siss suh-han-oh-FEN-siss
Common Name: Sahanofo Palm
Dypsis sahanofensis is another of the skinny, short-leaved, understory mostly solitary Madagascan palms that all seem fairly marginal in California (see Dypsis pinnatifrons for the classic of such palms). This palm differs in having slightly longer, less ovoid and more falcate leaflets. Some maturing palms are growing in California, but not many.
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Appearance and Biology
- Habit: solitary or clustering palm with a crown of 3-4 feather leaves
- Height: 10' estimate
- Trunk: single or multiple (most California palms are solitary… so far)
- Crownshaft: 6" tall; light green, mildly to significantly wider than stem
- Spread: 3'-5'
- Leaf Description: pinnate; flat; sometimes plumose though usually with leaflets on nearly the same plane; leaves mostly held at or near the horizontal; light green; leaflets lancelote and sometimes falcate
- Petiole/Leaf bases: almost nonexistent; unarmed; un-split
- Reproduction: monoecious
- Inflorescence: though most photos of this palm show inflorescences to be from below crownshaft, original description say interfoliar… perhaps more than one palm?
- Fruit:
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Horticultural Characteristics
- Minimum Temp: 31F
- Drought Tolerance: low
- Dry Heat Tolerance: moderate
- Cool Tolerance: low
- Wind Tolerance: low
- Salt Tolerance: unknown
- Growth Rate: slow
- Soil Preference: moist and well draining
- Light Requirement: filtered to partial sun
- Human Hazards: none
- Disease or Horticultural Problems: a bit fastidious
- Transplants?: unknown
- Indoor?: unknown
- Availability: rare
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