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Yellow Latan Palm
Latania verschaffeltii
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
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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.
Yellow Latan Palm - Latania verschaffeltii
The yellow latan is an island fan palm with an unusually long ornamental adolescence. Juvenile plants carry bright yellow to orange leaf stalks and veins running through blue green costapalmate fronds, and that colouring is the reason most people buy it. As Latania verschaffeltii matures the yellow fades and the crown becomes a stiff, formal fan on a straight ringed trunk. It is slow, salt hardy and drought tolerant, which suits coastal Australian gardens where exposure defeats softer palms.
Why the Yellow Latan
Coloured petioles: Yellow to orange leaf stalks and veining make young and semi mature plants genuinely ornamental rather than merely structural.
Stiff formal crown: Rigid, upright fan leaves hold their shape in wind where softer fronds shred.
Coastal hardiness: It handles salt laden wind and sandy soil better than most feather palms.
Slow and predictable: Steady slow growth means it stays in scale with a design for many years.
Drought tolerance: Once established it copes with dry spells that would brown off a tropical understorey palm.
Ideal Applications
Beachfront garden: Its salt and wind tolerance make it one of the better fan palms for exposed coastal positions.
Formal driveway line: Repeated at even spacing the rigid crowns produce a strongly architectural rhythm.
Poolside specimen: Clean habit and low litter suit planting close to water and paving.
Dry tropical bed: Combined with cycads and succulents it sits comfortably in a low water tropical scheme.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): Not a screening palm. Allow 3.5 to 4m between plants in a grove
Spacing (feature/avenue): 4 to 5m centres along a drive or path
Best Planting Season: Spring and summer into warm soil
Soil & Drainage: Free draining sandy loam. It tolerates poor and alkaline soils but will not accept waterlogging
Establishment Care: Water twice weekly through the first warm season, then move to deep occasional soakings as the root system extends. Mulch with coarse material kept away from the trunk base, feed with a slow release palm fertiliser twice through the growing season, and protect young plants from frost in marginal districts.
Plant Details
Height: 6 to 10m over many years
Width: 3 to 4m crown spread
Growth Rate: Slow
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun
Native to: Rodrigues Island, in the Mascarene group of the Indian Ocean
Flower Colour: Insignificant
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.







