Zamia nana goes into the garden in a bright shady spot

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An absolute beauty the Zamia nana definitely one for the plant collection by any any means once again providing the tropical look 

[Kokioula]

Nana is a gorgeous species!! Love the drip tip leaflets, size and form of nana!

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16 hours ago, Kokioula said:

Nana is a gorgeous species!! Love the drip tip leaflets, size and form of nana!

Now that’s a nana, nice one top looking plant.

[Jdash]

Beautiful! How cold does it get over there? And how tolerant are these guys?

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17 hours ago, Jdash said:

Beautiful! How cold does it get over there? And how tolerant are these guys?

Greetings my temperature lows are 2 degrees Celsius. Yesterday it was 11 degrees all day and that’s a cold for us, winter last about 40 days in single digit numbers. Usually winter day temperatures are around 22 degrees Celsius. It’s cold enough to damage a lot of tender tropical varieties of palms killing them outright. I would be confident in saying 0 degrees Celsius would be there bottom line of cold tolerance no frost. But they are tough. 

[Jdash]

thanks for the reply! so your nana has seen single digits? pretty impressive, i always assumed they would croak near single digits. glad to have the data point

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4 minutes ago, Jdash said:

thanks for the reply! so your nana has seen single digits? pretty impressive, i always assumed they would croak near single digits. glad to have the data point

It’s quite surprising what plants take single digits in temps. My view is I just buy anything I want to and if it lives even bette4 if it dies that’s the way it is, you just gotta try them no matter what.

[Jdash]

any other tropical zamias able to survive those temps over there that you know of?

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1 minute ago, Jdash said:

any other tropical zamias able to survive those temps over there that you know of?

Zamia fischeri, Zamia variegata, Zamia standleyi Zamia roezlii,Zamia pseudoparsitica, Zamia picta, Zamia furfuracea, Zamia vasquezii,, then you got stangeria eriopsis, cerotazamia subroseophylla, c saint Toman, c hilddae. That’s a few in my collection.