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Nursery Direct
Red Latan Palm
Latania lontaroides
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
Supplied in 90Ltypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Red Latan Palm - Latania lontaroides
The red latan is grown for its juvenile phase, when the stiff fan leaves are edged and veined in deep red and the whole crown glows against a bright sky. As Latania lontaroides matures the colour softens to a grey green with red highlights, and the palm settles into a heavy, formal crown on a stout ringed trunk. It is an island palm from Réunion, built for salt wind, full sun and free draining ground.
Why Red Latan Palm
Red Juvenile Colour: Young leaves carry striking red petioles, margins and veining, a rare colour in palms.
Coastal Toughness: An island endemic that shrugs off salt spray, sand and constant onshore wind.
Heavy Crown Form: Thick, stiff fan leaves hold their shape and give a solid, formal outline.
Sun Loving: Wants full exposure, so it performs in open positions where shade adapted palms burn.
Solitary Trunk: Single stemmed and non suckering, it stays exactly to plan in a designed layout.
Ideal Applications
Beachfront and Coastal Gardens: Handles exposure that ruins most feature palms.
Resort and Poolside Feature: The stiff crown and coloured juvenile foliage read well from a distance.
Driveway Repetition: Planted in a run it delivers a strong tropical avenue in warm districts.
Tropical Courtyard Specimen: A single plant carries an enclosed sunny space on its own.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 3 to 4m for a grouped row
Spacing (feature/avenue): 5 to 7m as separated specimens
Best Planting Season: Spring and summer, into warm soil
Soil & Drainage: Free draining sandy or gravelly soil. It tolerates poor coastal ground but will not accept heavy waterlogged clay.
Establishment Care: Water regularly through the first two summers while the root system extends, then reduce to occasional deep soakings. Feed with a palm fertiliser in spring and summer, mulch clear of the trunk base, and keep young plants entirely free of frost.
Plant Details
Height: 8 to 12m over many years
Width: 3 to 5m crown spread
Growth Rate: Slow to moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun
Native to: Réunion Island in the Mascarenes, where it is endemic
Flower Colour: Cream to yellow, insignificant; male and female flowers are borne on separate plants
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







