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Livistona halongensis

Livistona halongensis
Photo: Gerald Martinez, CC BY-SA 4.0

Livistona halongensis is a small fan palm found only on limestone islands in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, growing in rock crevices. It is a rare species known mainly from its native habitat, so care advice is limited to general fan palm needs.

Family
Arecaceae (Palm family)
Grows as
Palm
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water when the top few centimetres of soil are dry, and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining mix with added grit or lime-tolerant material, since it grows on limestone.
Temperature
18–32 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
NE. Vietnam (Ha Long Bay Is.)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Livistona halongensis is a species of palm first collected in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, in 1999. The species was described by Tiên Hiêp Nguyên and Ruth Kiew in 2000. It is a fan palm.

Where it grows

Livistona halongensis is endemic to Vietnam, where is it is confined to the islands of Hạ Long Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its habitat is in crevices on the limestone islands.

Other Livistona plants

Millstream Palm · Australian Fan Palm · Livistona benthamii · Livistona boninensis · Fan palm · Fountain palm · Ribbon Fan Palm · Drude’s Palm · Livistona eastonii · Livistona endauensis · Blackdown Fan Palm · Cabbage Palm

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Livistona halongensis 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.

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