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Zamia range map (1).
Zamia furfuracea L.f. in Aiton

Common Names

Cardboard palm.

Taxonomic notes

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Description

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Range

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Big Tree

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Ethnobotany

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Observations

Seattle's Volunteer Park Conservatory has one; also saw at Flecker Botanical Gardens in Cairns.

Remarks

Although originally widespread and locally common, it has been exterminated from most of its range by poaching (1).

Citations

(1) Jones 1993.


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This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
URL: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/2285/za/za/furfuracea.htm
Edited by Christopher J. Earle
E-mail:earlecj@earthlink.net
Last modified on 21-Dec-98

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