Lipstick Palm, Maharajah Palm, Sealing Wax Palm or Latina Palm

[Cecil Lee]

The common name of this plant: Lipstick Palm, Maharajah Palm, Sealing Wax Palm and Pinang Rajah.

The terms Maharajah and Rajah denotes "royalty" in Malay.

This is one of the most popular plants, planted in a landed property especially at the front fencing area - as it is very good at camouflage or provide a nice screen 'privacy' screen for a home.

And because it's stem (trunk) is red in colour; red at the frontage of a Chinese home symbolises auspiciousness.

Family name: Palmae

Synonyms: C. lakka
Origin of this plant: South East Asia.

[Cecil Lee]

The Lipstick palm is very popular in many landed property homes in Singapore. Many plant this palm at the corner of their landed property.

Firstly, Chinese feel that red symbolises luck; and this palm is very easy to grow.

 

[Cecil Lee]

Former Prime Minister/ Senior Minister Mr Lee Kuan Yew's home at 38 Oxley Road also has three clusters of Lipstick Palm. 

DId you manage to identify it?

[Cecil Lee]

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Another name for Lipstick Palm is Latina Palm.

There are eight other varieties of palm trees used for landscaping today:-

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Other varieties of Palm trees:
Bottle Palm, Bismarkia Palm, Date Palm, Traveller Palm, Cycus Palm, Foxtail Palm, Raphish Palm and Areca Palm