Zamiaceae

Subfamily Encephalartoideae

• Dioon edule
• Dioon edule
• Encephalartos altensteinii
• Lepidozamia peroffskyana

Subfamily Zamioideae

• Zamia floridiana
• Zamia furfuracea
• Zamia pumila

• 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.