Editing Livistona muelleri

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[[File:Livistona_muelleri02.jpg|frame|Figure 1. ''L. muelleri'' at]]
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===Distribution: ===
''Livistona muelleri'', named for Baron
Ferdinand yon Mueller, is a beautiful species
occurring from coastal Tully to Cape York and the west side
of Cape York Peninsula. There is no recognized common name
for this species except that like most other ''Livistonas''
it was probably called 'cabbage tree' by aboriginals who used the
leaves as thatch and ate the centre growing cabbage.
In 1968, while holidaying at Bilyana between Cardwell and
Tully, I examined a small colony of this palm growing near
Bilyana Creek. The lower petioles of each fan were armed with
quite formidable curved thorns on the margins. Combined with
the bristly golden thorns of ''Calamus moti'' which grew
around the palm, I became firmly entangled and had to be
extricated by the Post-Mistress of the local Bilyana Post
Office. This was much to my relief as we had all heard
crocodiles bark in the creek at night.

===Description: ===
This colony is probably the most southerly stand of these
small palms. The leaves are palmate, up to 1 m in diameter,
borne on a petiole of about 1.3 m in length. The height of
each palm is up to 6 m, but generally most of them are around
3m. The trunk is relatively thin, to 30cm, the lower leaves
are persistent and hang in a dead skirt just where the upper
part of the trunk meets the leaf foliage.
The crown of ''Livistona muelleri'' is generally
symetrical, having rather stiff, bright green and dense fans,
and the flower panicle of about 1m in length has cream to
pale yellow flowers approximately 25mm across. The seed is
globular and bluishblack in colour.
[[www.huntington.orgBotanicalDivHEHBotanicalHome.html"
Huntington Botanical Gardens.

===Cultivation: ===
In cultivation this palm is still not widely used, possibly
because the plants grown from seed are notoriously slow. It
should suit most well drained soils in the subtropical and
tropical climates. Used as a potted plant, it has great
potential and is extremely handsome at the juvenile stage.
Seed can take as long as 6 months to germinate, but can be
accelerated by soaking them in warm water and then putting
them down in a small hessian bag with a quantity of peat moss
that has been soaked in a nutrient solution.
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[[File:Livistona_muelleri.jpg|frame|Figure 2. ''L. muelleri'' in habitat.]]
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[[File:Livistona_muelleri03.jpg|frame|Figure 3. A group of ''L. muelleri'' in habitat.]]
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===Contributed by: ===
Len Butt (Text - from '''''Palms & Cycads''''' No. 23, April-June 1989).<br/>
Colin Wilson (Figure 1)<br/>
Jonathan Cruickshank (Figure 2&3)<br/>


===External Links:===
[https://powo.science.kew.org/results?q=Livistona%20muelleri Kew], 
[https://www.palmweb.org//?q=cdm_dataportal/taxon/43ae962b-181f-425c-aed2-67005f40482c PalmWeb],
[https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=Livistona+muelleri JSTOR],
[https://www.trebrown.com/plant_info.php?species=Livistona+muelleri Trebrown],
[https://keys.trin.org.au/key-server/data/0e0f0504-0103-430d-8004-060d07080d04/media/Html/taxon/Livistona_muelleri.htm ATRP]
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[https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Livistona+muelleri Flickr],
[https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Livistona+muelleri%22%20site:https://www.palmtalk.org/&amp;sa=Google+Search PalmTalk]
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