Dypsis lutescens (H.Wendl.) Beentje & J.Dransf.
Areca palm, Sari mvovo, Sari popo, Yellow Butterfly Palm
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Summary
Chrysalidocarpus lutescens, also known by its synonym Dypsis lutescens and as golden cane palm, areca palm, yellow palm, butterfly palm, or bamboo palm, is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae, native to Madagascar and naturalized in the Andaman Islands, Thailand, Vietnam, Réunion, El Salvador, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Canary Islands, southern Florida, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, the Leeward Islands, and the Leeward Antilles. Its native names are rehazo and lafahazo.
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About the genus · Dypsis
Dypsis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Arecaceae. They are slender, evergreen palms with yellow flowers carried in panicles amongst the pinnate leaves. Many Dypsis species have aerial branching, a rare growth habit among palms. More on Wikipedia ›
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At a glance
Also known as Areca flavescens Voss; Chrysalidocarpus baronii subsp. littoralis Jum. & H.Perrier; Chrysalidocarpus baronii var. littoralis Jum. & H.Perrier; Chrysalidocarpus glaucescens Waby; Chrysalidocarpus lutescens H.Wendl.
Cultivation
Grouped as a tropical foliage plant by the genus Dypsis, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table supplies one figure for this group, a conventional minimum for the cold floor, and no prose.
Warmth and air Cold floor 12 °C (conventional for a tropical foliage plant, archetype table).
The archetype table’s figure; no habitat figure for this species.
Cold floor: 12 °C, the archetype table's conventional minimum for a tropical foliage plant (grouped by the genus Dypsis, which is reliably one kind of plant); no habitat figure is on file for this species.
The archetype table's conventional minimum for the group; no habitat figure is on file for this species.
The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.
Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Dypsis lutescens, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
Other Dypsis 1 in the reference
History & registers
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