Love the Anahaw - Livistona rotundifolia

Love the Anahaw - Livistona rotundifolia 

It is a beautiful and graceful palm. It grows tall and towers the surroundings.

                                                                Dr Abe V Rotor

 

 

Livistona rotundifolia

All of the palms of this genus are tall, graceful species, with fan-shaped leaves; pendulous, axillary inflorescences; rather small, globose fruits, and hard wood. 

Livistona saribas - leaves irregularly parted into primary and secondary segments petiole armed, flower sessile and in small groups, fruits globose, bluish even when dry. 

Livistona Merrillii - Leaves entire in their central part, with the periphery more or less divided, flowers solitary, spirally inserted around the branchlets. (Photo, Sapling stage)

Livistona rotundifolia var luzonensis - Flowers very small at most 2 mm in diameter, petiole spinous in their basal part, unarmed elsewhere spathes very tightly sheathing throughout, reddish brown when dry, fruit spherical, black when dry. 

Livistona rotundifolia var microcarpa - Fruits 12 to 13 mm in diameter (kernel 10-13 mm diameter), seed 8-10 mm. 

Livistona rotundifolia var mindorensis - Fruit medium size, central segments of the mature leaves parted into two. 

Livistona Robinsoniana - Petioles of leaves unarmed, although young plants have very small spines. Mature fruit is yellowish orange to yellow brown when mature.

                                       Young anahaw leaves are woven into fans

Reference: Key to Philippine species of the Genus Livistona. Useful Plants of the Philippines by WH Brown.