Red neck palm (Dypsis lastelliana)
Description
Dypsis lastelliana is a fast-growing, highly ornamental for the tropics, but a pretty marginal palm for most areas of southern California, not to mention a really slow grower here, despite it's close relationship to another Dypsis, Dypsis leptocheilos, which IS a great palm for southern California. At this time, few, if any, mature individuals reside in California. However, despite its relatively poor choice as a landscape palm here, it is still a very attractive palm with its thick, dark red-brown fuzzy crownshaft and shuttlecock leaves- even relatively immature palms are rather ornamental.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Arecales
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Family: Arecaceae
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Genus: Dypsis
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