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MusaZombie
11-14-2017, 07:06 PM
Hey everyone, hopefully a simple identification
Is this a dwarf jelly palm? Pygmy date?
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=62619&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=62619)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=62620&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=62620)
Kegas76
11-15-2017, 03:43 PM
Where is it?
It could be a Pindo, that what I thought first when I saw the leaf bases. I can't be sure but it looks like the leaflets are a bit thinner in your pic.
Maybe a Majesty Palm (https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=Ravenea+rivularis&chips=q:Ravenea+rivularis,online_chips:majesty+palm&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCudDctsHXAhVE2oMKHYmLCFYQ4lYIJygA&biw=1865&bih=887&dpr=1#imgrc=_)?
Definitely not a pygmy date palm though.
MusaZombie
11-15-2017, 07:26 PM
The "where it was" makes it super hard since it was at the Minnesota Zoo during their dino exhibit. That zoo has a massive indoor "conservatory" where they grow a lot of bananas, palms, figs, ....
I actually dropped the zoo a note to see if one of their naturalists knew what it was
jmc96
02-14-2018, 03:29 AM
Post getting a bit old but looks like Dypsis decaryi, or triangle palm.
MusaZombie
02-14-2018, 09:24 AM
Post getting a bit old but looks like Dypsis decaryi, or triangle palm.
Thanks for the thought. I was bouncing between it being a Jelly or Triangle, just wasn't confident with one or the other
Dalmatiansoap
02-14-2018, 11:40 AM
Definitely triangle
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