Common name: Golden Cane Palm, Areca Palm, Butterfly Palm, Madagascar
Palm
Botanical name: Dypsis lutescens Family: Arecaceae (Palm family)
Golden Cane Palm is clump-growing with ringed, bamboo-like stems and yellow
leaf-ribs. The foliage is evergreen, of fine texture and yellow-green in
color. Pinnate, 6 to 8 pale green leaves per stem, 80 to 100 leaflets, to 8
feet long (2.4 m). Yellow if grown with enough light, 2 feet long.
Yellow male and female flowers on the same inflorescence. Flower stalk coming
from below the leaves. Fruit is yellow to purple, 2 cm, oval in shape.
This is one of the most useful Palms of the
tropics the world around. Native to Madagascar, Golden Cane Palm is
tropical-looking, serves as a super, bamboo-like screening plant and is
relatively pest-free.
| Photographed at Masihgarh
Church, New Delhi |
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