Hi...

Here is another unknown in the experimental garden. Normally, most have their species ID tag alongside but for this one, nowhere to be seen. Maybe recently transplanted.

Looks like tropical fern but I.ve not seen before in local gardens(Malaysia). Again, I could be wrong since my take on plants is still juvenile.

Any help appreciated. Many2 thanks

janie

May be a Japanese Holly Fern (Cyrtomium falcatum).

Hi Tulio,

Thank you so much for the lead. That's a good match.

Really appreciate.

janie

It almost looks like a cycad, Zamia vazquezii, which is often misidentified as Z. fischerii.

Looks like one taking over my place. Grows over 1.5 metres high, send out thin wiry runners that produce plantlets everywhere. Copes well with full exposure to sun and, for a fern, is reasonably drought tolerant. But it becomes rampant when well watered. I don't know its name though.

Eric, I haven't seen a nursery yet selling Zamia vazquezii, they're all selling "Z. fischeri". I've told a few of them that they're Z. vazquezii but they won't have it.

Eric in Orlando + Tropicbreeze - thanks very much for the insight.

Eric's take on the rare cycad looks spot on too!

Thanks again for narrowing it down for me.

janie