Accession #: 199600031
Accession Date: 1996-12-12
Common name: Jamaica Sagotree
Family: Zamiaceae
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Country of Origin: Mexico (Veracruz)
Description: [syn Z. pumila L.]
Stem more or less tuberous, sometimes branched, bearing a tangled profusion of pinnate leaves 1-1.3 meters long, on prickly stalks, the thick leathery leaflets oblanceolate 20 cm long, more or less toothed and overlapping, densely brown scurfy beneath, or on both sides when young; male cones 10 cm long, the female ones shorter. An excellent 'different' decorator plant, hard and durable as iron, and of relatively small size.
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USDA Zone: 9b-11
Source: Chiltern Seed
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