Lepidozamia peroffskyana

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A beautiful Australian plant the peroffskyana. Super tough yet will lap up any amount of attention and look twice as good. Drought tolerant heat tolerate cool tolerant and fire tolerant. Grows in full bright light to deep shade, and tolerant of a lot of sun. Native to my area and I love them, although a bit common around the place but very noticeable when seen. Easy to propagate and single plants will set viable seeds provided the weevil is present in the garden. They take about twelve months to germinate and like all cycas species have a seed ripening period after harvest. Such a wonderful plant to have in the garden but you need room. I will be planting more of them around the new garden. Just like I did 26 years ago. 

[gyuseppe]

Richard, there are two at the Botanical Garden in Naples, very large, they must be very old. This one is a very old dioon edule

 

[Urban Rainforest]

This is one a friend gave me as a little seedling. He germinated it off a cone from his big female plant. The thing is rootbound in a 15 gal. Now. The most user friendly Cycad I have as it has nothing that will poke you!

[gyuseppe]

https://pacsoa.org.au/wiki/index.php/Zamia_vazquezii

Z. vazquezii in Naples Botanic Garden

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3 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

Richard, there are two at the Botanical Garden in Naples, very large, they must be very old. This one is a very old dioon edule

 

Good pictures. One doesnt think of Naples with a such a beautiful collection. Great to see them growing strong. 

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3 hours ago, Urban Rainforest said:

This is one a friend gave me as a little seedling. He germinated it off a cone from his big female plant. The thing is rootbound in a 15 gal. Now. The most user friendly Cycad I have as it has nothing that will poke you!

They are very easy to work with. I know the feeling of a dried up bit of ferox leaf in amongst the leaf mulch they hurt. That’s a beautiful one you have there.