Family: Arecaceae    Palm Tree

Common Name: None known

Cold Hardiness Zone: 10a     View the UK and US zone maps

Dypsis elegans Information

Identification

This is an exquisitely beautiful palm with solitary slender stems and interruptedly pinnate leaves with dark green leaflets. Inflorescences are highly branched. This palm is described from the Manombo Reserve, Farafangana, where it is regarded as critically endangered. A new more numerous population has now been found growing on Mt. Ivohibe in the south.

Species information currently being revised.

Distribution

Native to: Madagascar

Location: Madagascar (-24.235611°N, 47.109375°E)

Observations

Map may not represent the complete natural distribution. (Markers display observation data).