Red neck palm

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.