Livistona rotundifolia

Table Palm 

Scientific name : Livistona rotundifolia 

Family : Arecaceae 

It is a hermaphrodite fan palm.

The palm is evergreen, erect, and only grows having a single trunk ('solitary').

 It grows at a height ranging from 15 to 25 metres, exceptionally up to 45 metres tall,and thickness of 15 to 25 cm diameter at breast height.

 Its trunk is smooth and straight with a shallow rings of leaf scars.

 The trunk is rather massive and tapering. It usually grows to 60 feet tall, but may rarely reach 90 feet tall.

 The young trees have a green crown.

 This species is seldom seen with a slight skirt of drooping, dead leaves. The sheaths are chestnut brown in colour.

The palmately-lobed leaves are spirally arranged around the trunk.

 The petioles are long. The entire leaf is some 1.2 metres in length. 

The leaf blade is entire in its centre,and almost round in outline. 

The leaf segments are forked, but not deeply, at their ends. The leaf segments have one main nerve.

The flowers are borne on an inflorescence with a long peduncle, about 0.9 to 1.2 metres long. The three-petalled flowers appear in bunches.

The fruit is a fleshy drupe. It is about 2cm in diameter, quite round, and coloured brick red as it ripens, ultimately becoming black when ripe.