Zamia soconuscensis

Female cone

This species is represented solely by a small population in the Socunoso Mountains in Mexico, where they grow on the top of a mountain and are protected by the Indians who live there. In fact, you have to kiss up to the local head person to be brought up to see the plants; otherwise you would never get there.

Photos courtesy and copyright © 1998, Tom Broome.

Click left to read more about this cycad from Ken Hill's The Cycad Pages

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description of the genus Zamia

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