Dypsis bosseri
Dypsis bosseri This species seems to grow best in a wet spot, they tolerate the cold quite well but I’m not sure how they would like a slight frost..? They do grow much better and grow slightly larger in the tropics compared to the subtropics as you can see by looking at the same form growing at Jeff’s in Hawaii and then looking at the photos of this same form growing here in the subtropics on the Sunshine coast. Mainly just the size of the leaves..! Not the height of the plant. As a juvenile this species or should I say this form that Jeff and myself are growing will be very hard to tell apart from D.hildebrandtii, D.forficifolia, D.lantzeana and a few others in this group.
Then there this strap leaf form, as you can see with these habitat photos of Philips from his recent trip to Madagascar with John Dransfield, that this form looks totally different to these others, almost like it’s another species so the only way you could tell that this was a form of Dypsis bosseri would be to have it flower and count the stamen, (see photo) Many of these smaller Dypsis can have more than one form and just to make things very confusing they can look totally different to what we know a particular species to look like.
