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Licuala peltata is a small fan palm native to the wet tropical forests of South and Southeast Asia, from Bhutan to Peninsular Malaysia. It is a shade-loving understorey palm that needs warm, humid conditions and steady moisture.
Licuala peltata is a species of palm tree in the family Arecaceae. It is found in South Asia and Southeast Asia. The triangular leaves are not truly peltate, or if so only marginally so.
Ferruginous Fan Palm · Ruffled Fan Leaf Palm · Licuala orbicularis · Fan palm · Mangrove Fan Palm
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Licuala peltata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
