Perennials, Tropicals > Zamia > Zamia vazquezii > Zamia vazquezii
Zamia vazquezii
Little Chamal
Origin: Mexico.
| Family |
| Zamiaceae |
| Genus |
| Zamia |
| Species |
| vazquezii |
| Category |
| Perennials, Tropicals |
| USDA Hardiness Zone |
| 9 - 11 |
| Canadian Hardiness Zone |
| Requires cold season protection under glass. |
| RHS Hardiness Zone |
| H4 - H1c |
| Height |
| up to 1 m |
| Spread |
| Up to 2 m |
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Description and Growing Information
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| General Description |
| A very attractive small cycad with an underground trunk. |
| Landscape |
| Can be used as a small shrub or a large groundcover, and it does well as an indoor plant. |
| Cultivation |
| Grow in shade or full sun, but looks best when grown in some shade; needs a neutral, well drained sandy soil. |
| Growth |
| Slow |
| Habitat |
| Found in wet lowlands, semi-evergreen forests to pine-oak forests in deep shade. |
| Bark/Stem Description |
| Subterranean, tuberous, up to 10 cm in diameter, continuous with a variously carrot-shaped root. |
| Leaf Description |
| Comes in two forms, one with green leaves and the other with bronze leaves up to 1 m long. Leaf has 15-30 pairs of papery thin, wide leaflets with very small indentations or teeth on the leaflets. |
| Fruit Description |
| Male cones: tan, ovoid to ovoid-cylindrical, 5-7 (8) cm long. Female cones: tan to brown, cylindrical to ovoid-cylindrical, 10-15 cm long. Seeds: orange-red to red, 1.3-1.8 cm long, and 0.5-0.8 cm wide. |
| Texture Description |
| All parts of the plant are poisonous to animals and humans. |
| Notable Specimens |
| Bok Tower Gardens, Lake Wales, Florida, United States of America. |
| Propagation |
| Easily propagated from seed. |
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