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Sometimes the leaves are used for making fans and the fibre is used for rope making.
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Livistona chinensis is nNaturalized in Florida (E. H. Butts 1959).
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Description
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Trunk usually short and stout, may attain a height of 13 m, profusely ringed; lower portion smooth, upper portion is surrounded by remains of petioles and reticulate fibrous network. Leaves flabellate, 1-1.75 m across, plicate, central part large ovate, divided into 60-90 segments about the middle; segments linear-lanceolate, acuminate, smooth, pendulous; apex deeply forked for c. 30 cm. Petiole large, 60-100 cm or more in length, slender, green, glabrous, plano-convex; margin spiny only on the lower portion or rarely lacking spines; spines small, green, pointed downward. Inflorescence light yellow when young and then becomes green with unpleasant odour, repeatedly branched, bracts many, tubular, sheathing the peduncle and branches. Flowers small, sessile in groups of 2-4 flowers. Petals c. 3 x 2 mm, joined at base. Sepals imbricate. Fruit oval, 1.9 x 1.1 cm, bluish-green, heavily packed on the fruiting spikes.
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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.
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Distribution
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Distribution: Southern Japan, Ryukyu Island, Bonin Island; commonly cultivated in Pakistan as an ornamental plant.
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Distribution
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introduced; Fla.; native to Asia (southern China, Bonin Islands).
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Flower/Fruit
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Fl. Per.: February-March. Fr. Per.: June.
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Flowering/Fruiting
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Flowering spring--summer.
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Habitat
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Disturbed hammocks and mesic woods; 0--10m.
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Synonym
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Latania chinensis Jacquin, Fragm. Bot., 16, plate 11, fig. 1. 1801; Saribus chinensis (Jacquin) Blume.
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Livistona chinensis: Brief Summary
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Livistona chinensis -
MHNT Livistona chinensis, the Chinese fan palm or fountain palm, is a species of subtropical palm tree of east Asia. It is native to southern Japan, Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands, southeastern China and Hainan. In Japan, two notable populations occupy islands near the coast of Miyazaki Prefecture, Aoshima and Tsuki Shima. It is also reportedly naturalized in South Africa, Mauritius, Réunion, the Andaman Islands, Java, New Caledonia, Micronesia, Hawaii, Florida, Bermuda, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
Livistona chinensis can attain heights of about 9 to 15 m (30 to 50 ft) and a spread of 4 m (12 ft). The leaves are fan shaped.
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