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Livistona rigida, the Mataranka palm or Gregory River cabbage palm, is a tall fan palm of northern Australia that grows along streams and seasonally flooded watercourses. It needs a permanent shallow water supply and plenty of sun in a warm climate.
Livistona rigida, commonly known as the Mataranka palm or Gregory River cabbage palm, is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is a palm tree native to the northern Northern Territory and northwestern Queensland in Australia.
Plants grow up 28 meters tall. They are functionally dioecious, flowering from June to December and fruiting from November to May.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Livistona rigida 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.
