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Accession Data

Zamia furfuracea

Common Name: Jamaica Sagotree

Family: Zamiaceae

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.

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 9b-11

Accession #: 199600031

Accession Date: 1996-12-12

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 1305

Quantity: 1

Source: Chiltern Seed

Classification

Division: Cycadophyta

Class: Cycadopsida

Subclass: Cycadidae

Order: Cycadales

Family: Zamiaceae

SubFamily: Zamioideae

Tribe: Zamieae

SubTribe: Zamiinae

Flowering Data:

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References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 26 February 2015.
  2. WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 26 February 2015.
  3. Exotica 4 by AB Graf

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Zamia furfuracea