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Zamiaceae

Subfamily Encephalartoideae

Subfamily Zamioideae

W/C = Wild Collected
Zamia furfuracea L.f.

  • 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: 3105 - PROD-W: Floor NE
  • Qty: 1 confirmed on 01-19-2012
Classification:

  • Division: Cycadophyta
  • Class: Cycadopsida
  • SubClass: cycads
  • Order: Cycadales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Zamiaceae
  • SubFamily: Zamioideae
  • Tribe:
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Exotica 4 by AB Graf

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