| 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. |
Additional information
| Choose Height | 40cm-50cm, 50cm-70cm |
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