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Licuala sallehana
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Supplied in 400mm
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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.
Licuala sallehana
This is a miniature rainforest fan palm, not a landscape tree. Licuala sallehana carries almost circular, deeply pleated leaves that in the typical form remain undivided, so each frond reads as a single green disc rather than a set of segments. It stays around a metre to a metre and a half tall, which makes it a plant for foreground positions in deep shade where its leaf shape can be seen properly. Treat it as a specialist understorey subject for tropical and protected subtropical gardens.
Why Licuala sallehana
Entire pleated leaf: The undivided circular frond is the whole appeal, and it is a form very few palms offer.
Miniature scale: At roughly 1 to 1.5m it fits at the front of a bed or in a shaded pot, never overwhelming a space.
Deep shade tolerance: It grows in light levels where most palms thin out and stretch.
Slow and stable: Very slow growth means a planting scheme holds its proportions for years without intervention.
Compact habit: The plant builds a tight, low crown rather than spreading, so neighbouring plants are not crowded.
Ideal Applications
Shaded courtyard pot: In a glazed pot under cover it becomes a living sculpture at close viewing distance.
Rainforest understorey drift: Massed beneath tall palms and canopy trees it forms a low green layer of discs.
Entry and pathway edge: Set beside a sheltered path the leaf shape is appreciated at a metre away.
Conservatory and atrium: Warmth, humidity and low light in an enclosed space suit it exactly.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): Not a screening plant. Mass plant at 1 to 1.2m centres for a continuous understorey layer
Spacing (feature/avenue): 1.5m as an individual accent, clear of foot traffic that could tear the fronds
Best Planting Season: Warm humid months, from late spring through summer
Soil & Drainage: Rich, moist, free draining soil high in leaf mould. Constant humidity is essential and frost is fatal
Establishment Care: Keep the root zone permanently moist and never allow the plant to dry out, even briefly, as the large entire leaves scorch and do not recover. Mulch with fine leaf litter, shelter it completely from wind and direct sun, and apply a weak liquid feed monthly through the warm season rather than strong granular fertiliser.
Plant Details
Height: 1 to 1.5m, occasionally to 2m over many years
Width: 1.5 to 2m
Growth Rate: Slow
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Deep to filtered shade
Native to: Lowland rainforest of Peninsular Malaysia
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.







