Love the anahaw - Livistona rotundifolia (Article in progress)

 It is a beautiful and graceful palm.  It grows tall and towers the surroundings.

Dr Abe V Rotor

 

   Livistona rotundifolia

All of the palms of this genus are tall, graceful species, with fan-shaped leaves; pendulous, axillary inflorescences; \rather small, globose fruits, and hard wood.

•   Livistona saribas - leaves irregularly parted into primary and secondary segments petole armed, flower sessile and in small groups, fruits globose, bluish even when dry.

•  Livistona Merrillii - Leaves entire in their entral part, with the periphery more or less divided, flowers solitary, spirally insertedb around the branchlets.

• Livistona rotundifolia var luzonensis  - Flowers very small at most 2 mm in diameter, petiole spinous in their basal part, unarned elsewherespathes very tightly sheating throughout, reddish brown when dry, fruit spherical, black when dry.

•  Livistona rotundifolia var microcarpa - Fruits 12 to 13 mm in diameter (kernel 10-13 mm diameter), seed 8-10 mm.

• Livistona rotundifolia var mindorensis - Fruit medium size, central segments of the mature leaves parted into two.

• Livistona Robinsoniana - Petioles of leaves unarmed, although young plants have very small spines). Mature fruit is yellowish orange to yellow brown when mature.

Young anahaw leaves are woven into  fans

 From Key to Philippine species of the Genus Livistona. Useful Plants of the Philippines by WH Brown.