Dypsis elegans
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).