Saribus rotundifolius (Lam.) Blume is a very attractive palm, especially when young, due to its large, round, shiny, shallowly divided leaves. It is also known as “Anahaw” (National leaf of the Phillipines).
Its trunk is solitary, smooth, brown, with the rings of the scars of the foliar petioles in evidence and clothed with beautifully greyish woven fibres in the upper part below the crown. In its natural habitat it can grow to up to 24 metres.
Its leaves are broad, erect to pendent, palmate, wider than long, almost round in outline from a very early age, shiny, glossy green and incised for about half of their length in usually rigid and stiff segments. As it gets older however, the leaves become more divided, and not quite so pretty. The leaves in juvenile palms are about 1,5 metres wide and circular, while they are smaller, costapalmate in older palms and do not form a full circle.
Saribus rotundifolius
Saribus rotundifolius comes in following sizes:
S - is ca. 35 cm tall and comes in a ⌀ 12 cm pot.
M - is ca. 45 cm tall and comes in a ⌀ 14 cm pot.
