Palms and cycads from Northern QLD
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Archontophoenix alexandrae – ALEXANDRA PALM
$5.50 – $12.50Slender 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 – $75.00Small 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 – $35.00Attractive 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
$15.00Fairly 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 cannifolia
$15.00A poorly known slender clumping Palm Lily to 2m from NE.Q’ld. Requires a moist shady situation. Long panicles of white flowers followed by reddish globular berries.
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Cordyline manners-suttoniae
$7.50 – $15.00Grows 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
$25.00Medium 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
$25.00Endangered & 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
$25.00Cycad 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
$25.00Found 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
$35.00One 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.
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Lepidozamia hopei – RAINFOREST CYCAD
$35.00One 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.
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Licuala ramsayi – FAN PALM
$15.00 – $35.00Ornamental Palm to 10m with large fan shaped leaves. Large clusters of white flowers, bright red fruit. Very slow , needs warm frost free sheltered moist shady site. NE.Q’ld.
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Linospadix minor – JAKARUNGLE
$20.00Small understorey palm to 2.5m widely distributed in NE.Q’ld at low to intermediate elevation. Attractive edible fruit hanging in long strings. Slow, needs shady & not too dry site.
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Macrozamia moorei
$25.00Tallest of the Macrozamia species growing to 7m, this species is locally abundant in open dry woodlands on shallow rocky poor soils (often on slopes). North of Springsure to the Carnarvon Ranges, C.Q’ld.
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Macrozamia mountperriensis
$25.00Cycad with subterranean trunk & flat highly glossy leaves to 1.5m long. From Gin Gin to Mt Perry & southwards to south of Brooweena. Not considered at risk.