Chinese fan palm
Livistona chinensis (Jacq.) R.Br. ex Mart.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Little
- tall
- 9.1 m
- wide
- 3.4 m
Arecaceae
Also called Fan palm, Fountain palm
Formerly Chamaerops biroo, Latania chinensis, Latania oliviformis, Livistona japonica, and 5 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Japan to China (Guangdong)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
- Height
- 9.1 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Spread
- 3.0 m to 3.7 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from UF/IFAS, one source
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Palmera china de abanico
- Chinese
- 蒲葵, 蒲葵根, 葵子
- Portuguese
- Palmeira-leque-da-china, Palmeira-de-leque-da-china
- Czech
- livingstonie čínská
- Japanese
- ビロウ（広義）, クバ, ホキ
- Dutch
- Chinese schermpalm
- Russian
- Ливистона китайская
- Danish
- kinesisk skærmpalme
- Thai
- ปาล์มจีน
- Chinese (China)
- 蒲葵
- Polish
- liwistona chińska
- Hebrew
- ליויסטונה צ'יננסיס, ליויסטונה סינית
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Livistona chinensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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