Palms and cycads from Northern QLD
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Archontophoenix alexandrae – ALEXANDRA PALM
$5.50 – $12.50Quick ViewSlender tropical Palm to 6m or more with silver reverse to the fronds & thin graceful trunk. Excellent tub specimen. Slow at first, moist sheltered site in sun or shade.
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Bowenia serrulata – BYFIELD FERN
$25.00 – $75.00Quick ViewSmall palm-like plant to 1m with bright green shiny leathery leaves with sharply toothed margins. Slow, prefers light shade, must have good drainage. CE. to NE.Q’ld.
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Bowenia spectabilis
$25.00 – $35.00Quick ViewAttractive cycad with underground stem and above ground leaves to 1.2m high. Understorey shrub from well developed undisturbed rainforest from sea level to 700m. NE.Qld.
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Caryota rumphiana – FISHTAIL PALM
$15.00Quick ViewFairly rare solitary palm to 10m confined to Cape York Peninsula. Attractive black trunk & wedge or fan shaped leaves, purple fruit. Slow growing, frost tender, needs moist protected shady site.
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Cordyline manners-suttoniae
$5.50 – $12.50Quick ViewGrows to 5m. Bears large arching leaves, small white flowers, showy bunches of red berries which ripen in summer. Easily grown in a well-drained semi-shaded protected situation. Hardy once established. NE.Qld.
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Cycas media
$25.00Quick ViewMedium sized Cycad with trunk to 3.5m with attractive long pinnate leaves. Slow growing, well drained site in sun or shade. Fire & frost tolerant. Rockhampton to NE.Q’ld.
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Cycas megacarpa
$25.00Quick ViewEndangered & vulnerable cycad from sloping wet eucalypt and rainforest areas Port Curtis District Q’ld. Trunk to 3m, mature leaves to 1m.
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Cycas ophiolitica
$25.00Quick ViewCycad with erect trunk to 2-4m. Mature leaves glaucous & up to 1.4m in length. Prefers dappled shade & good drainage. Marlborough to Rockhampton, central Q’ld.
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Cycas platyphylla
$25.00Quick ViewFound on stony slopes with shallow loamy soils in the Petford district, NW Atherton Tablelands with a disjunct pop. 250kms south. Grey green leaves to 1.1m, blue when new.
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Lepidozamia hopei – RAINFOREST CYCAD
$35.00Quick ViewOne of the tallest cycads in the world, woody trunks to 20m, rarely branched. Seeds edible. Dioecious. Slow, needs warm protected frost free site in light shade. NE.Q’ld.
