
Zamia integrifolia - Wikipedia
Zamia integrifolia, also known as coontie, is a small, tough, woody cycad native to the southeastern United States (in Florida and formerly in Georgia), the Bahamas, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, and Puerto Rico. Z. integrifolia is a low-growing plant, with a trunk that grows to 3–25 cm high, but is often subterranean.
Zamia - Wikipedia
Zamia is a genus of cycad of the family Zamiaceae, native to North America from the United States (in Georgia and Florida) throughout the West Indies, Central America, and South America as far south as Bolivia.
Zamia Cycads - Species - Jungle Music
Enthusiasts will collect pollen from a ripe male cone and manually introduce it into a receptive female cone. In the same fashion, interspecies hybrids can be created. Male Zamia pollen is typically white in color and almost looks like talcum powder. Transmission of this pollen to the female can be accomplished utilizing a fine artist's brush ...
Introduction to Zamias, the Tropical Cycads - Dave's Garden
2009年8月3日 · Open male cone (Zamia integrifolia); Ripe Zamia integrifolia cone (photo MotherNature4) As a group, Zamias are some of the least drought and cold tolerant of the cycads, though there are exceptions, of course.
Flowering and fruiting. Coontie is a cycad, a cone-bearing gymnosperm, with male and female cones appearing on different plants. The male cones are cylindrical, 5 to 16 cm long, and often clustered 2 to 5 per plant. The female cones are elongate-ovoid, up to 5 to 19 cm long (LHBH 1976; FNAEC 1993).
Coontie Palm (Zamia integrifolia): History, Lifespan, Cultivation ...
2024年6月8日 · The Coontie Palm, scientifically known as Zamia integrifolia, is a small, tough, woody cycad native to the southeastern United States (in Florida and Georgia), the Bahamas, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands. It’s not actually a palm tree, but a cycad, a group of ancient plants that predate dinosaurs.
Non-Flowering Plant Families, UH Botany - University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
The ovules and seeds are born in one or more compact cones (megasporantiate strobili) consisting of densely crowded, highly modified meagasporophylls, each bearing 2 ovules. Male plants produce male or microsporangiate cones that bear many scales, each with an abundance of microsporangia scattered over the lower surface.
Zamia: Identification, Health Benefits, Uses, Invasive Concerns, and ...
While not known for traditional flowers, Zamia plants produce cones, a feature typical of cycads. These cones resemble small, tightly packed corn cobs and are an essential part of their reproductive process. The male and female cones are typically found on separate plants (dioecious), with female cones being larger.
Zamia () description - conifers.org
6 天之前 · Floristically, Zamia is represented in Panama by three elements: three Central American species, Z. acuminata, Z. fairchildiana, and Z. skinneri, which reach their southern limits in central Panama; three northern South American species, Z. chigua, Z. manicata, and Z. obliqua, which reach their northern limits in Panama; and five endemic ...
Zamia pumila - North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox
Male cones are cylindrical and often clustered. The female cones are elongate-ovoid and reddish. Appear on separate male and female plants. Large stiff pinnately compound leaves 2-4 feet long with 5 to 30 pairs of leaflets. Leaflets are linear to lanceolate, 3-9 inches long and 1/2 inch wide.