| Scientific Name: | Dypsis lutescens |
| Common Name: | Areca palm |
| Family Name: | Arecaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - tropical |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 2 - 3m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Upright |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Basal, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Lustrous, Odd-pinnate, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Panicle, Green-yellow, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Orange, Yellow, Purple, Red, Dark-red, Black |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Multi-trunked palm tree with cane-like clustered yellow stems up to 2.5m tall grown indoors; leaves strongly ascending, pinnately compound, large (up to 2.5m long in nature) with 30-60 leaflets 20-70cm long x 1-3cm wide on each side of a yellowish green rachis. | |