Palms   Livistona rotundifolia

Synonymy: Numerous Common Names: Footstool Palm, Serdang Habitat: Tropical rainforests of Malaysia, and Indonesia. Description: A very attractive Livistona, especially when young, due to its large, round, shiny, shallowly divided leaves. As it gets older however, the leaves become more divided, and thus not quite so pretty. General: Quiet a common landscaping palm in the South-east Asia. Culture: Unfortunately rather tropical in its requirements, tho it will grow in warm sub-tropical areas. Requires a shady sheltered position in the sub-tropics, but is quite happy in full sun when the humidity is very high (see Figures3&4).

Figure 1.

Figure 2. L. rotundifolia at MtCootha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane.

Figure 3. In front of the Kuching Musuem, Borneo.

Figure 4. L. rotundifolia

Contributed by:	University of Florida-IFAS (Figure 1)
	Mike Gray (Figure 2,3&4).

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