Roundleaf Fan Palm

Livistona rotundifolia (Lam.) Mart.

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Arecaceae

Explanation of name: Generic name from Patrick Murray, Baron of Livingstone (HUX), whose home is now the Edinburgh Botanic Garden.  Specific epithet means round-leaved.

Natural range: Tropical Asia (HUX)

Recognition: Single-trunked palm, often modest-sized, having fibrous matting on the trunk, petioles longer than the leaf blades, stout, round spines on the petiole; leaf blades round, not deeply incised, the tips not drooping or scarcely drooping

Landscape uses: Stout, modest-sized, formal, perky fan-leaf palm.