Scientific name | Zamia furfuracea |
Common name | Cardboard palm |
Temperature requirement | 27-32 °C |
Humidity | 60-80% |
Light | Full sunlight |
Watering | Water everyday &keep moist |
Pests | Rhinoceros beetle,red palm weevil,black headed caterpillar, coconut eriophyid mite, |
Pet friendliness | Not hazardous |
Maximum plant height | 15-25cm |
Potting mix | Potting soil/red soil/manure/perlite |
Pot requirement | Good drainage&repot every 1-2 years |
Nutrition | Apply manure for first 15 days and npk for next 15 days |
Pruning & training | Remove dead & diseased leaves with sterile shears |
Fower colour & season | N/A |
Description | Zamia furfuracea is also known as Cardboard palm. Is a small cycad with a partly underground, simple or rarely branched, cylindrical trunk. Bears terminal whorls of semi-erect to spreading, pinnate leaves, to 1m long, each with up to 24 oblong or inversely lance-shaped to obovate, stiff, pale green leaflets, later olive-green, with red-brown hairs. Produces felted, red-brown female flower cones, 10-13cm long, usually in summer. |