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Nursery Direct
Ruffled Fan Palm
Licuala grandis
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.
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 90L about 1.5 to 2.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
Getting it in: the largest size here needs about 900mm to 1.2m of clear access. Measure the narrowest point on the route and tell us on the booking call. Standard access is included in the price, and anything unusual is quoted and agreed with you before work begins. What happens on installation day
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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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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.
Ruffled Fan Palm - Licuala grandis
Most palm leaves are split into segments. Licuala grandis keeps its leaf whole: a circular, deeply pleated disc up to 90cm across with a scalloped, toothed rim, held on a fine stalk from a slender trunk. That single feature makes it one of the most recognisable palms in cultivation and one of the most demanding about position, because it is a rainforest floor plant from Vanuatu and direct sun will scorch those discs within days.
Why Ruffled Fan Palm
Undivided Pleated Leaf: The complete circular fan is unique among commonly grown palms and functions as living sculpture.
Compact Mature Size: The trunk rarely exceeds three metres, so it stays in scale with courtyards and interiors.
True Shade Plant: It performs in light levels where sun loving palms stretch and thin out.
Slow and Controlled: Minimal growth means the composition you plant is close to the one you keep.
Red Fruit: Strings of glossy red fruit follow flowering on established plants and hang against the green discs.
Ideal Applications
Atrium and Covered Courtyard: Sheltered, humid, low light spaces are exactly what this palm was built for.
Shaded Tropical Bed: Massed under canopy with ferns, gingers and aroids for a layered rainforest floor.
Feature Pot Under Cover: A single plant in a wide pot on a covered terrace reads as a specimen object.
Understorey to Larger Palms: Planted beneath taller palms it fills the empty space below their crowns.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1 to 1.5m when grouped
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2 to 2.5m
Best Planting Season: Warm humid months, from late spring to early autumn
Soil & Drainage: Rich, moist and high in organic matter with free drainage; consistent moisture is essential and it must never dry out
Establishment Care: Water two or three times a week and mulch with leaf litter to hold humidity at the base. Position it out of wind, which tears the leaf discs and permanently spoils them, keep it entirely out of direct sun and out of frost, and remove damaged leaves at the base since the palm produces new ones only slowly.
Plant Details
Height: 2 to 4m
Width: 1.5 to 2.5m
Growth Rate: Slow
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Shade to filtered light only
Native to: Vanuatu
Flower Colour: Cream, followed by red fruit
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.







