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Products > Plants - Browse By Plant Category > Cycad > Macrozamia johnsonii
 
Macrozamia johnsonii - New South Wales Macrozamia

Note: This plant is not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.  

 
Habit and Cultural Information
Category: Cycad
Family: Cycadaceae (Cycads)
Origin: Australia (Australasia)
Evergreen: Yes
Flower Color: NA
Bloomtime: Infrequent
Height: 10-12 feet
Width: 10-15 feet
Exposure: Sun or Shade
Summer Dry: Yes
Deer Tolerant: Yes
Winter Hardiness: 15-20° F
May be Poisonous  (More Info): Yes
Macrozamia johnsonii (New South Wales Macrozamia) - A large-growing cycad with a rounded head of blue-green foliage on a stout trunk to 10 feet tall. It is the largest of the New South Wales Macrozamia but smaller than Macrozamia moorei, a species that this plant was once considered a form of and was called the "New South Wales form" or the "green form" of Macrozamia moorei . From the thick stout trunk this plant holds many 5 to 7 foot long blue-green leaves that rise erect and then strongly arch over with 120 to 220 leaflets that are flattened and not keeled as they are for Macrozamia moorei with leaflets that are 8 to 12 inches long in the middle of the leaf but reduced towards both ends with the basal leaves reduced to nearly spinelike and looking like a saw blade near the base. Unlike many other cycads, this plant will continually put on leaves instead of having flushes of leaves so it can look more like a palm with a full head of leaves. Plant in full sun to light shade in a well-drained soil and irrigate occasionally to infrequently. Hardy and evergreen to 20 °F. This species has a very restricted distribution in northern New South Wales where it is found growing in the mountainous areas near the coast by Grafton and up into the tablelands along the Great Dividing Range. 

The information about Macrozamia johnsonii that is displayed on this web page is based on research conducted in our nursery's horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We will also include observations made about this plant as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We also incorporate comments that we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they share cultural information that aids others growing this plant.

Please note that after 46 years in business, San Marcos Growers will be discontinuing nursery operations by the end of 2025 and the property will be developed for affordable housing.

 
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