Pronunciation: DIPP-siss
Common Name: none
Dypsis nodifera is a fairly marginal palm for most areas of California, and does best in coastal gardens where these is plenty of shade, wind protection and no freezes. It is a very wispy, slow-growing palm with thin leaves and a similarly skinny stem. A few maturing palms exist in California but it is overall a very rare palm in this state.
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Appearance and Biology
- Habit: solitary with a crown of 3-4 feather leaves
- Height: 8' estimate
- Trunk: single; 0.5" thick; green; ringed
- Crownshaft: 6" tall; slightly wider than stem; pale green and sometimes mottled
- Spread: 2'-3'
- Leaf Description: pinnate; plumose; leaflets thin and spread out along rachis; leaflets often arching, almost 'bent' in the middle; light to deep green
- Petiole/Leaf bases: very short to several inches long; un-split; thin
- Reproduction: monoecious
- Inflorescence: usually below crownshaft but can be borne among leaves
- Fruit: 1/4" long; oblong; medium green
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Horticultural Characteristics
- Minimum Temp: 31F
- Drought Tolerance: poor
- Dry Heat Tolerance: low
- Cool Tolerance: poor
- Wind Tolerance: low
- Salt Tolerance: unknown
- Growth Rate: very slow
- Soil Preference: moist and well draining; acidic
- Light Requirement: full to partial shade
- Human Hazards: none
- Disease or Horticultural Problems: none yet
- Transplants?: unknown
- Indoor?: unknown
- Availability: very rare
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