Editing Beccariophoenix madagascariensis (section)

===Habitat:===
''B. madagascariensis'' grows in in the eastern section
only of the Analamazoatra district of Madagascar at heights
of 900-1000 metres as a canopy emergent in tropical
rainforest. It grows in semi-shade, likes rich well-drained
soil with lots of humus (Dransfield, 1988). One of
Dransfield's ( 1988) photos shows
''Beccariophoenix'' towering above the forest like giant
feather dusters. On his February/March 1994 visit to
Townsville John Dransfield showed this very photo/slide and
commented that "...some of these palms had been felled by an
unscrupulous seed merchant".
I have grown ''Beccariophoenix'' from seed and have an
excellent specimen in my yard growing under these very
conditions. While very slow from seed, ''B. madagascariensis'',
once established, grows reasonably fast with about five new
leaves per year.