Lepidozamia peroffskyana (Scaly Zamia) c-b Care guide

Care guide

the size of a softball and often weighing over 400 grams

The thick red flower spike reaches up to 2

but it's also key that the soil gets a chance to dry out a bit between watering

Lepidozamia peroffskyana (Scaly Zamia) c-b Care guideLepidozamia peroffskyana, commonly known as Scaly Zamia or Pineapple Cycad, is in the family Zamiaceae. It is naturally distributed in the wet sclerophyll forests of north eastern New South Wales and south eastern Queensland, usually on protected slopes and gullies or rainforest margins and coastal forests on stabilised sand dunes and sand hills. It grows from sea level to about 1000m altitude and it tolerates summer temperatures of about 19 to 32C