Malaysia 
I got about 5 Licuala elegans small trees (approx 4 ft tall)(known as kipas locally) from a local nursery in sungai buloh, Malaysia. Mine have small thorns starting from each stalks, about one third of the leaf stalk and then no more thorns, just beautiful green stalks. I read somewhere that it needs shady places! But my nursery shop told me mine needs full sunlight!! Which is which please?
18 Mar, 2011
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Thanks. I moved most of mine to a semi-shady area (car porch). I left one in full sun to experiment as the nursery is so insistent that it should have no problem :-) He reckons it is just due to planting in a new ground shock factor as many of the leaves are a bit yellow or slightly brownish at the edges.
24 Mar, 2011
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