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Vanuatu fan palm

Licuala grandis

Photo by Scott Frazier
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

A small, relatively slow growing palm from Vanuatu, popular as an ornamental. (See it from January 2012 here http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/8972619 ).

Habitat:

Planted as an ornamental in a semi-urban yard and garden in the equatorial tropics of northern New Guinea.

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Comments (2)

Beautiful - I can see why it is popular as an ornamental plant.

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