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Livistona chinensis R.Br.

Fountain palm (en), Palmier-éventail de Chine (fr), Livistona de Chine (fr), Palmier éventail chinois (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Arecales > Arecaceae > Livistona

Characteristics

Stems to 15 m tall, 20-30 cm in diam., rough with leaf scars. Leaves palmate; petioles to 1.8 m, with green or black, recurved spines along margins, spines denser proximally, fewer distally on petioles; hastula to 3 cm; blades almost circular in outline, 1.2-1.8 m wide, green on both surfaces, regularly divided to ca. 1/2 their length into 50-90 segments, these split and pendulous at apices. Inflorescences 1-1.2 m, branched to 3 orders, with 6 or 7 partial inflorescences; rachillae 10-18 cm; flowers hermaphroditic, borne in clusters of 4-7, white or yellow, 2-2.5 mm. Fruits green or blue-green, globose to ellipsoid or pear-shaped, 1.5-2.6 × 0.9-1.8 cm.
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A solitary palm. The trunk is 15 m tall and 20-30 cm across. It is rough with leaf scars. The leaves have leaflets like fingers on a hand. The leaf stalks are 1.8 m long. There are spines that curve back along the edge. The leaves are almost round in outline. They are 1.2-1.6 m across. They are divided into 50-90 segments. These hang down at the tips. The flowering stalks are 1 m long. They are branched 3 times.
Leaves: segment apices lax. Inflorescences with single primary axis and 3 orders of branching. Fruits usually oblong or olive-shaped (rarely globose), ripening from green to blue-green. 2n = 36.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 1.75 - 2.5
Mature height (meter) 11.0 - 13.5
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Coastal forests on various soils, often in sand, sometimes in dense mono-specific colonies, otherwise in small isolated colonies; at elevations up to 100 metres.
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It is a subtropical plant. It grows in coastal forests often on sandy soils. In XTBG Yunnan.
Light 4-8
Soil humidity 3-7
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity 2-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 10-11

Usage

The young immature flowering shoots are cooked with meat.
Uses afforestation environmental use fiber material medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use Hepatomegaly (unspecified), Lymphadenitis (unspecified), Splenomegaly (unspecified), Neophasia (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seeds.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) 1
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Leaf

Livistona chinensis leaf picture by apoorva pateriya (cc-by-sa)
Livistona chinensis leaf picture by Siddharth Siddharth Mehra (cc-by-sa)
Livistona chinensis leaf picture by Elsa Havart (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Livistona chinensis fruit picture by George perry (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Livistona chinensis world distribution map, present in Andorra, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brazil, China, Dominica, Indonesia, Japan, Mauritius, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Taiwan, Province of China, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:668021-1
WFO ID wfo-0000230388
COL ID 3VP7Y
BDTFX ID 84738
INPN ID 447759
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Latania chinensis Livistona subglobosa Saribus subglobosus Livistona japonica Livistona oliviformis Chamaerops biroo Livistona sinensis Saribus chinensis Saribus oliviformis Latania oliviformis Livistona chinensis var. subglobosa Livistona chinensis
WorldFloraDB 2024