Chrysalidocarpus lutescens

Butterfly Palm
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D. lutescens
Binomial name
Dypsis lutescens
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Dypsis lutescens, also known as golden cane palm, areca palm,yellow palm, or butterfly palm, is a species of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family, native to Madagascar and South India and naturalized in the Andaman Islands, Réunion, El Salvador, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Canary Islands, southern Florida, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, the Leeward Islands and the Venezuelan Antilles.

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