Family: Arecaceae
Plant: A distinctive palm tree up to 30m high with a trunk marked with scars and furrows.
Flowers: Cream to white 6-petalled 3-5mm across in drooping panicles 1m long.
Flowering: August-October.
Fruit: Red to black globular drupe 10-15mm diameter massed in bunches up to 1m long.
Leaves: Large, shiny, tough, palmate 3-4m long borne in a in terminal crown. The margins of the leaf petioles have spines.
Habitat: Common near the sea in gullies in rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest.
Features: Large palmate leaves on top of tall central trunk. Trunk marked with scars and furrows. Inflorescence is large with many white flowers.
Name:
Livistona After the Scottish botanist Baron Livingstone
australis From Latin = southern
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Type |
Tree |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
White, Cream |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
6 |
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Flowering Month |
8, 9, 10 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Drupe |
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Colour |
Red, Black, Purple |
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Other Features |
Fleshy |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Crowded |
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Type |
Compound |
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Shape |
Other |
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Length |
Very long |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
Rough/Furrowed |
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Habitat |
Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest |
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