Scientific Name: Dypsis lutescens
Common Name: Areca palm
Family Name: Arecaceae
Origin: Africa
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.