Fact sheet: Cardboard plant

 

The rigid, woody, medium-green foliage of cardboard plant emerges from a large underground storage root and forms a loose, spreading, symmetrical rosette. Providing a tropical landscape effect, cardboard plant’s mounding growth habit is ideally suited for use in containers or as a specimen. Several can be planted together for a lush, tropical effect. They also create a dramatic effect when mass-planted in a shrub border, eventually reaching to six or eight feet tall. Plant on three- to five-foot centers to create a mass planting.

Scientific name: Zamia furfuracea

Pronunciation: ZAY-mee-uh fer-fer-RAY-see-uh

Common name(s): cardboard plant, cardboard cycad

Fact sheet: Cardboard Plant

Planted in Nassau County Extension Demonstration Garden

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Posted: May 20, 2017


Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes
Tags: Cardboard Plant, Demonstration Garden, Zamia Furfuracea


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