- 🌿 Botanical Name
- Dypsis lutescens
- 👨👩👦 Family
- Arecaceae.
- 🗣️ Vernacular Names
- Yellow palm.
- 🌼 Flowering – Fruiting
- Almost throughout the year.
- 🌍 Distribution
- Native of Madagascar.
- 💡 Status
- Near Threatened.
Description: Slender, multi-stemmed, clustering palm tree, with yellow leaf sheaths. Leaves pinnately compound, upward arching, with about 40-60 pairs of pinnae. Flowers minute, yellow, in compound spadix. Fruit oblong drupe, yellow or dark purple or black when ripe.
Uses: Planted in gardens for landscaping.