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Boy, that sure looks like a Chamaedorea (seifritzii), not a Dypsis... you sure about the identification on this one? Does it have yellow speckled petioles and stems? And D lutescens has arching, very neat, ordered fronds. Hmmm
I'm certainly ready to defer to someone with "palm" in their name. :-)
History of this 30+year old houseplant:
Purchased it at K-Mart in the Chicago suburbs in 1970 in a 4" pot. Until a couple of years ago it was a houseplant that never thrived, but slowly over the years was moved up several pot sizes
In the mid 70's it nearly froze to death when our furnace died in the middle of a sub-zero winter. It has been plagued with spider mites several times in its lifetime and nearly succumbed on a couple of occasions. This plant came to California in 1979 as an occupant of a large sailboat towed overland. It survived 110F temps in Nebraska and a June snowstorm which mired it in the Sierras for a time.
It led a sad life for the next couple of decades, hovering between life and being banished to the compost heap. In the mid-90s it was nearly fried alive when the venting system in an enclosed pool failed.
A couple of years ago I moved it to a 16" diameter pot, put it outside and it has slowly tried to look like a nice plant. I have just replanted it in a 22" pot, it is trying to bloom (fruit?), but no color on them yet.
I entered it into the PDB with the ID it has carried all these years...perhaps the whole problem is that it has resented being called by the wrong name all its life. :-)
