Family:
Arecaceae
Palm Tree
Common Name:
Bonin Islands fan palm
Scientific Synonymy:
Livistona chinensis var. boninensis, Corypha japonica
Common Synonymy:
Chinese fan palm, Chinese fountain palm, fountain palm. French: palmier évantail de Chine
Cold Hardiness Zone:
8b
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Livistona boninensis Information
Identification
Trunk up to 15 m or more tall. Leaves numerous, pale green, up to 1.5 m long, with a prominent undivided central area and numerous deeply bifid segments, their tips pendulous, petioles armed with stout prickles. Flowers pale yellow, in clusters of up to 6, inflorescences up to 1 m or more long, of several branches along a single main rachis, each 2-3 times divided into rachillae, bracts brown tomentose. Fruit bluish green to bright green, darker with age, ellipsoid to sublobose or pyriform, 1.5-2.6 cm long, 0.9-1.8 cm in diameter. 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.
Species information currently being revised.
Distribution
Native to:
Japan
Location:
Chichi Jima I. Japan
(27.068188°N,
142.209351°E)
Observations
Map may not represent the complete natural distribution.
(Markers display observation data).
