A slow steady grower that likes more shade/ filtered light when young. Make sure the soil drys out in between watering with great drainag...Read Moree soil. Out of the Stumpy Dypsis, this one tends to be more low maintenance. When planting, have it sits high on the soil and let the heal dig itself downward into the soil.
Oceanside, CA (Zone 10b) | January 2006 | positive
This is one palm that I had to have! It was on my list for a few years before I could ever find one in cultivation. However, with some lu...Read Moreck I purchased 2 3g size plants from Jeff at Floribunda. I potted them up in 15's and they have grown consistenly and rather quick. I think alot of that is due to the fact that I live in a 10b/10a zone. They have both grown quite evenly and put on about a foot of overal height each this last year. I can only anticipate the maturity of this fine and lovely madagascan giant!!
This Madagascan solitary giant was only recently named officially (late 2003?). For years it was sold under the name Dypsis sp. Stumpy, ...Read Moreand it may have had a few other synonyms. But finally it flowered in hawaii and was officially described. It has a thick (1') deeply and closely ringed trunk with a head of large, arching leaves with closely spaced, upright leaflets. Probably extremely endangered, or even possibly extinct in the wild.
A slow steady grower that likes more shade/ filtered light when young. Make sure the soil drys out in between watering with great drainag...Read More
This is one palm that I had to have! It was on my list for a few years before I could ever find one in cultivation. However, with some lu...Read More
This Madagascan solitary giant was only recently named officially (late 2003?). For years it was sold under the name Dypsis sp. Stumpy, ...Read More