Areca palm
Dypsis lutescens
Kew's current name: Chrysalidocarpus lutescens H.Wendl.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 6.0 m
- wide
- 3.2 m
Arecaceae
Also called Areca Palm, Bamboo palm, Golden cane palm, Butterfly palm, Yellow Cane Palm
Formerly Areca flavescens, Chrysalidocarpus glaucescens
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. MadagascarKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS part; NC State Extension full, part
- Height
- 4.0 m to 8.0 mRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 4–8 m; NC State Extension 10–30 ft
- Spread
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 2.5–4 m; NC State Extension 8–15 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- 7 °C (USDA zone 11b)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS 15 °C; NC State Extension -1.1 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- palma areca, Palma areca de Madagascar
- Dutch
- Goudpalm
- root
- Kindro madinika, Buuch
- German
- Goldfruchtpalme
- Russian
- Дипсис желтеющий
- French
- Palmier bambou, multipliant
- Portuguese
- areca-bambu
- Czech
- chrysalidokarpus nažloutlý
- Japanese
- コガネタケヤシ, アレカヤシ, ヤマドリヤシ
- Indonesian
- Palem Kuning
- Chinese
- 黃椰子, 散尾葵
- Finnish
- puistokultapalmu
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 3.0 us
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Dypsis lutescens (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.