Zamiaceae |
Zamia furfuracea L.f.
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- Common Name: Jamaica Sagotree
- Family: Zamiaceae Reichb.
- Country of Origin: Mexico to Columbia
- Habitat: generally arid thorn scrub and in limestone sea cliffs
- 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.
Restrictions:- CITES Appendix II Listed Plant
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Accession Data:- Accession # 199600031
- Source: Chiltern Seed
- Accession Date: 12-12-1996
- Bench: 2111 - Ant Acacias
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 01-31-2008
Classification:- Division: Cycadophyta
- Class: Cycadopsida
- SubClass: cycads
- Order: Cycadales
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- Family: Zamiaceae
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References:Exotica 4 by AB Graf
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